Offer excludes the car parks most used by shoppers

The Council has announced that there will be free parking for two hours at some car parks which are located outside the “City Walls”.

Exclusions are Piccadilly, Marygate, Castle Car Park, Esplanade, Bishopthorpe Road Car Parks, Moor Lane, East Parade and Rowntree Park.

Of these, Marygate and Esplanade are both outside the Walls and are very popular with shoppers.

Castle & Piccadilly are also popular shopper destinations and are the best used car parks in the City.

The Council says, “The offer is valid in council run car parks outside the city walls including: Nunnery Lane, Union Terrace, Monk Bar, St George’s Field, Foss Bank, Bootham Row”.

Of these, only Nunnery Lane is located on the west of the river Ouse.

York Council says it “will offer free parking in July and August”

. The free parking incentive includes two free hours parking starting from Saturday 4 July, reducing to one free hour of parking throughout August. 

The free parking is available only to users of the Ringo Parking App if they park after 10:00am (seven days a week). 

 The Ringo App is a contactless payment which helps facilitate social distancing and can be download from any app store.

A report detailing the proposals will be presented to a Council Executive meeting which is being held on Thursday June 25.