Safe and secure car parking in Carlisle

The majority of Carlisle City Council’s car parks have been judged as safe and secure by a national scheme.

Park Mark awards are granted under the Safer Parking Scheme by the British Parking Association who manage the scheme on behalf of the Associations of Chief Police Officers for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. More than 3,000 UK car parks have received the distinction, around 500 of these are in the North West.

Re-inspections of all 17 car parks having previously received awards were carried out on Tuesday, 8 April 2008 and all 17 were judged successful and achieved awards for a further 12 months. The car parks involved are: the Civic Centre; Swifts Bank; The Sands; Bitts Park; Devonshire Walk; Paddy's Market; Lower Viaduct; Upper Viaduct; Town Dyke Orchard; Stanwix; Rosehill; Cecil Street; William Street; Shaddongate; Central Brampton; Union Lane Brampton and Gilsland.

Cllr Ray Bloxham, Portfolio holder for Environment and Infrastructure said:

"The awards are great news for the city as they re-enforce the message that drivers can park their vehicles in our car parks safe in the knowledge that every measure has been taken to make the safe and secure. Cumbria Police crime figures prove that incidents of crime within our car parks are low and in the case of half of our car parks crime is non-existent."

Judging of the Carlisle City Council car parks took place in April this year.