Adur District Council Introduces Motorcycle Parking Charges

Adur and Worthing Council has introduced motorcycle parking charges that begin today. That now means you could be paying up to £7.20 to park in one of the region's designated car parks.

Before today, motorcycles could use the council's own car parks for free, as long as they weren’t parked in a bay that was specified for a particular road user or vehicle. From today onwards, if you’re visiting the seaside towns of Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, and Southwick, and you use a council-run car park, you’ll be paying between £5.40 and £7.20 per day to park your bike.

The move has been introduced to help maintain and pay for the upkeep of the region’s carparks, with the council saying: “Last year, we spent more than £140,000 monitoring, maintaining and improving our off-street car parks across Adur for users, but motorcyclists did not help fund that work at all.”

Riders have two options for ticket purchase, either from a pay-and-display machine (good luck keeping that ticket on your screen!) or via an app-based system. The council also claims that all signage relating to motorcycle parking charges is easy to read and viewable from the motorcycle parking bays.

The list of carparks listed on the Adur website is shown below:

• Beach Green, Shoreham-by-Sea
• Littlecroft, North Road, Lancing
• Middle Street, Shoreham-by-Sea
• North Farm Road, Lancing
• Old Fort, Shoreham-by-Sea
• Pond Road (Community Centre), Shoreham-by-Sea
• Riverside, Shoreham-by-Sea
• Riverside (permit only), Shoreham-by-Sea
• Ropetackle, Shoreham-by-Sea
• Southwick Beach
• Southwick Square
• Tarmount Lane, Shoreham-by-Sea

You can check out the full list and prices for each on the Adur Council website.

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