FOI release

Town Centre Car Parking Income

Case reference FOI2026/01556

Received 25 September 2026

Published 6 October 2026

Request

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding council-operated town centre car parks. For the purposes of this request, please use the Council's own definition or designation of a "town centre" rather than undertaking any new analysis to determine whether a car park falls within a town centre. For each of the financial years 2024/25 and 2025/26, please provide: 1. The total income from parking charges received from council-owned or council-operated off-street car parks located within town centres. 2. The direct operating expenditure associated with those car parks. 3. The resulting net income/surplus or deficit, if this is already calculated by the Council. 4. The number of car parks and total number of parking spaces covered by the figures above, where this information is readily available. 5. The names of the car parks included within the figures, so that we can understand how the Council has interpreted "town centre". Please exclude income from Penalty Charge Notices or other parking enforcement activity. If season tickets, permits or other non-casual parking income are included within the income figure, please either identify the amount separately or indicate that they are included. Where information is not held in precisely this format, I would be grateful if you could provide the closest information already held by the Council rather than undertaking new calculations.

Response

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding council-operated town centre car parks.

For the purposes of this request, please use the Council's own definition or designation of a "town centre" rather than undertaking any new analysis to determine whether a car park falls within a town centre.

For each of the financial years 2024/25 and 2025/26, please provide:

1. The total income from parking charges received from council-owned or council-operated off-street car parks located within town centres.

2025-2026; £6,291,199.03

2024-2025; £5,610,065.86

2. The direct operating expenditure associated with those car parks.
2025-2026; £1,500,225.50

2024-2025; £1,731687.59

3. The resulting net income/surplus or deficit, if this is already calculated by the Council.

This is not calculated separately, only for the department as a whole.

4. The number of car parks and total number of parking spaces covered by the figures above, where this information is readily available.

2025-2026; Car Parks - 16 Total spaces Including disabled bays - 3509

2024-2025; Car Parks - 15 Total spaces Including disabled bays - 3784

5. The names of the car parks included within the figures, so that we can understand how the Council has interpreted "town centre".

2025-2026	2024-2025
Beech Street	Beech Street
Camden Road	Camden Road
Crescent Road (Multi)	Crescent Road (Multi)
Great Hall (Multi)	Great Hall (Multi)
Linden Pk Road	Linden Pk Road
Little Mount Sion	Little Mount Sion
Meadow Road (Multi)	Meadow Road (Multi)
RVP (Multi)	RVP (Multi)
Torrington (Multi)	Torrington (Multi)
Pantiles	Pantiles
John Street	John Street
Mount Pleasant Ave	Stone Street
Stone Street	Town Hall Yard
Town Hall Yard	Warwick Road
Warwick Road	Old Coach Park
Old Coach Park

Documents

There are no documents for this release.

This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.