Parking Management Plan

The Parking Management Plan is about ensuring that we provide the appropriate time restrictions in the right locations.

The new Parking Management Plan was adopted by Council at the meeting on June 28 2021.

The plan can be downloaded via this link: Parking Management Plan

This project is not about the urban design of car parking spaces. The plan does not change angle parking to parallel parking or vice versa. It is about ensuring that we provide the appropriate time restrictions in the right locations. This will ensure that the community is able to shop, visit, do business, have meals and attend leisure facilities in Horsham in a relaxed and accessible way whilst ensuring there is an appropriate turnover of car spaces to support retail and other businesses.

Overall, the aim is to provide a better customer experience with parking in Horsham by:

• Supporting business activity by encouraging the turn-over (churn) of on street parking spaces, while providing a simplified zone arrangement that enables shoppers time to complete their visit to the central business district without having to continuously return to their car to top up meters or move to another location.
• Providing ease of access to all types of users.
• Recognising the role of Horsham as a regional centre for business, commerce and recreation.
• Optimising available street space in an equitable, fair and transparent manner.
• Maintaining community access to local businesses, services and amenities.
• Balancing the needs of residents, local workers, businesses, shoppers and commuters.

Submissions are now closed.

As part of the review a community-based Project Reference Group was established to provide local knowledge and guidance as to what the issues were in Horsham’s commercial precinct.