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# Study carried out ahead of multi-storey demolition says hundreds of Lichfield city centre car park spaces go unused each day
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/study-carried-out-ahead-of-multi-storey-demolition-says-hundreds-of-lichfield-city-centre-car-park-spaces-go-unused-each-day/
- Published: 2024-03-11T17:34:30.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-11T17:34:46.000Z
- Description: Hundreds of car parking spaces are available every day in Lichfield, a new study has revealed.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Politics, Transport, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:58, News

Hundreds of car parking spaces are available every day in Lichfield, a new study has revealed.

A total of 1,860 bays are available across the 16 local authority car parks in the city centre on weekdays according to Lichfield District Council’s figures.

Plans to demolish the Birmingham Road multi-storey facility this year have seen concerns in some quarters about the impact the move could have on the availability of parking.

But now the council says that a survey shows that at present between 720 and 900 spaces are available in car parks between 9am and 4.30pm each day.

It will, however, reallocate some nearby bays from May this year to create additional short stay city centre parking spaces to make up for those lost when the structure is knocked down.

Cllr Janice Silvester-Hall, cabinet member for high streets and tourism, said the datawould allow the council to make more accurate decisions around which car parks are designated as long stay or short stay.

> “The survey highlights that while certain car parks experience higher demand, there remains sufficient capacity within other car parks that are just a few minutes’ walk away.  
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> “The Friary Outer to the Lichfield Garrick is a six minute walk at gentle pace, while walking from Greenhough Road, the furthest car park from the city centre, to Market Square is a 13 minute amble.  
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> “The data shows us that Lombard Street, The Friary multi-storey, District Council House, Friary Inner and Sandford Street car parks typically have good availability across the week.  
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> “Now that we have this detailed data, we will make changes to car park as long or short stay in order to make it easier for residents and visitors to park.  
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> “We will continue to monitor use of the car parks and will adjust as required to ensure they meet the needs of our community.”  
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> Cllr Janice Silvester-Hall

## “Significantly underused”

The survey was also carried out in the aftermath of [changes to car parking charges](https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/drivers-reminded-of-forthcoming-changes-to-car-parking-charges-in-lichfield/) across the city earlier this year.

The new report found that some locations, such as University Car Park West and the Bus Station Car Park, were full almost all of the time on weekdays.

But other locations, such as The Friary Outer Multi-storey Car Park, and the Frog Lane Car Park are used at just over a third of their capacity each day.

The Birmingham Road multi-storey, meanwhile, was “always significantly underused” according to the council.

The facility is due to be knocked down later this year as part of the development of a new cinema in the adjacent former Debenhams unit.

Other changes due to take place on the back of the survey are both upper and lower levels of the Lombard Street Car Park to be categorised as long stay, and a reduction of short stay prices at city centre sites for the first two hours of parking to £1.50.