The cost for short-stay parking in on-street bays in 35 Norwich streets will go up from Monday, April 20.

The Norfolk Parking Partnership - made up of councillors from authorities across the county - agreed in 2022 that short-stay on-street parking charges on Norwich's streets would automatically increase each April.

The amount which tickets will go up this year varies, depending on which of two bands a street's parking bays are in.

Those in Band A will go up to £2.40 for up to 30 minutes, from the current £2.30 for up to 30 minutes.

The charge for each additional 15 minutes will also increase, from the current 90p to 95p.

Streets with Band A bays are Bank Street, Ber Street, Bethel Street, Chapelfield East, Crown Road, Greyfriars Road, Magdalen Street, Prince of Wales Road, Princes Street, Rouen Road and St Giles Street.

In Band B, charges will be raised from £1.70 for up to 30 minutes to £1.80 for that period of stay.

The cost of each additional 15 minute stay will increase from 60p to 65p.

Colegate in Norwich (Image: Sonya Duncan)

The Band B bays are in Bedding Lane, Ber Street, Bishopgate, Blackfriars Street, Calvert Street, Cathedral Street, Colegate, Cow Hill, Elm Hill, Fishergate, Garden Street, King Street, Mountergate, Muspole Street, Oak Street, Recorder Road, Rouen Road, St Benedicts Street, St Faiths Lane, St Margaret’s Street, St Martin's at Palace Plain, St Marys Plain, Surrey Street and Upper St Giles.

In 2024/25, on-street parking charges in Norwich netted the partnership more than £480,000.

Between December 2024 and November last year, more than 39,000 penalty charge notices were issued to Norfolk drivers for contravening parking regulations.

Colegate in Norwich was the street where drivers fell foul of enforcement officers most frequently, with 985 motorists caught for flouting regulations.

Council officers say the money generated by charges and penalty notices goes into the running costs of the civil parking enforcement scheme and pays for new parking schemes and initiatives.

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