Changes to car parking charges and charging hours made to council car parks

Denbighshire County Council are introducing new car parking charges for council car parks as well as and changing charging periods.

From Wednesday 8 July, council run pay and display car park charges will increase for the first time in over two years, due to rising costs and inflation.

Following discussions with Local Members, it has been agreed that the below car parks will revert to the previous charging hours of 8am – 5pm. Charging hours of other car parks in the county will remain until 11pm unless stated otherwise on the tariff boards.

The car parks that will be reverting to the previous charging hours are:

• Green Lane, Corwen
• Market Street, Llangollen
• Market Street, Ruthin
• Parliament Street, Rhuddlan
• Kings Avenue, Prestatyn
• Sky Tower, Rhyl
• Bowling Green, St Asaph

Denbighshire County Council has recently moved to a ‘demand based’ model for its town and city centre car parks, which has resulted in council owned car parks in the county being placed in ‘bands’ depending on actual parking demand for each individual car park.

The car parks with the highest demand in the county have been placed in ‘band A’ whilst the car parks with the least demand have been placed in ‘band C’.

Details of the newly categorised car parks are below:

Band A car parks - 

• Market Street, Llangollen
• Kings Avenue, Prestatyn
• Queen Street, Rhyl
• Water Street (Town Hall), Rhyl
• East Street, Llangollen
• Vale Street, Denbigh
• Market Street, Ruthin
• St Peter’s Square, Ruthin

Band B car parks -

• Rhyl Library, Rhyl
• Railway Station, Rhyl
• Bowling Green, St Asaph
• Mill Street, Llangollen
• Hall Street, Llangollen
• Crispin Yard, Ruthin
• Parliament Street, Rhuddlan
• Lower High St, Prestatyn
• West Kinmel Street, Rhyl
• Brook Street, Llangollen
• Railway Station, Prestatyn
• Dog Lane, Ruthin
• Fern Avenue, Prestatyn
• Nant Hall Road, Prestatyn
• Troed y Rhiw, Ruthin
• Morley Road, Rhyl

Band C car parks - 

• Post Office Lane, Denbigh
• Rhos Street, Ruthin
• Park Road, Ruthin
• Barkers Well Lane, Denbigh
• Crown Lane, Denbigh
• Green Lane, Corwen

Despite tariffs increasing for car parks in ‘bands A & B’ they will remain the same for car parks in ‘band C’, and existing Town Council subsidies will remain in place.

Councillor Barry Mellor Lead Member of Environment and Transport said:

“Like all councils, we face the most challenging of times with continuing budget pressures due to rising costs and demand for services. Due to these pressures, it was decided to raise parking charges for the first time in Denbighshire since 2024.

“Whilst these increases have been based in line with current charges from other Local Authorities, I’d like to stress that existing parking initiatives such as ‘Free after 3’ parking during the Christmas period and five free parking days for each Town and City Councils will continue”.

For more information on the pay and display car parks in Denbighshire visit the parking page on Denbighshire County Council’s website.