Making it easier for residents to park near their homes
Why are we extending parking controls?
With both Edinburgh itself and car ownership growing, it’s often difficult for residents to park near their homes and for shop customers to park near shops.
Residents, community groups and local councillors asked for the original Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in 1974 to stop commuters from parking in residential areas.
In recent years, residents and councillors again asked for controls as commuters and other long-stay visitors were parking on residential streets around the existing zone.
We realise it is difficult for some commuters to use public transport, but we’d encourage them to look at other options such as park and rides, rather than parking on residential streets.
Controlled Parking Zone extension – Schedule | Operating Date | Zone No. | Area | Construction Started/starts |
| 4 September 2006 | N1 | Hillside/Broughton | Completed |
| | S1 | Marchmont/Grange | Completed |
| 8 January 2007 | N2 | Inverleith | Completed |
| 5 March 2007 | S3 | Merchiston | Completed |
| | S2 | Greenhill/Morningside | Completed |
| 16 July 2007 | N3a | Comely Bank – (South of Comely Bank Road) | Completed |
| | S4 | Dalry/Fountainbridge | Completed |
| 5 November 2007 | N3b | Comely Bank - (North of Comely Bank Road) | Summer 2007 |
| | N4 | Craigleith | Summer 2007 |
| | N5 | Orchard Brae/Coates | Summer 2007 |
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Let’s look at how parking controls are helping residents who come and go at different hours.
Situation: Sue lives in Hillside and is a doctor at the Royal Infirmary. She works shifts and often arrives home in the middle of the day and has trouble finding a place to park.
Solution: With the residents’ only bays introduced last September, residents will have priority over commuters in the bays in front of her tenement building, Using her residents’ permit, Sue can quickly find a space near her home throughout the day.
Situation: Graham, who lives in Sciennes, is a salesman who needs his car for work at appointments around the city.
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He usually leaves home at 9am and returns at 5.30pm or 6pm. Previously, most of the parking spaces near his flat were full when he arrived home, but emptied out by about 6.30pm when the commuters left.
Solution: Now, with parking bays in operation from 8.30am to 5.30pm, Graham is much more likely to find a space because residents will have priority over commuters in the on-street parking spaces near his house all day.
If he can’t find a space in a residents’ bay, with a resident’s parking permit, he may also park in Pay & Display bays for free between 5.30pm and 6.30pm and right through until 9am, Monday to Friday.