Council reveals match day parking charges for Everton's new stadium
Thousands of residents and businesses in Liverpool are being invited to apply for permits
Liverpool City Council has revealed match day parking charges around Everton's new stadium at Bramley Moore dock.
A raft of new parking measures are to be implemented around the 52,000 capacity stadium, similar to exiting rules around Goodison Park and Anfield.
More than 4,000 residents and 3,000 businesses are now being invested to apply for permits, ahead of the introduction of an Experimental Traffic Road Order (ETRO).
The ETRO will run for up to 18 months and during that period will then be reviewed by the Council Highways and Transportation team.
Residents will be able to apply for a permit for each vehicle registered at their address, plus one visitor permit, for which there will be no fee.
Businesses will be charged an annual fee of £50 per vehicle, up to a maximum of 10.
The focus of the proposed parking zone covers the area within a 30-minute walk of Everton Stadium, which is serviced by the city’s historic “Dock Road”, and will encompass the surrounding Ten Streets district, into the city centre and up to Great Homer Street in Everton.
The new parking zone requirements, which were subject to a public consultation in late 2022, includes:
• New resident parking areas
• New taxi ranks
• New match day bus stands
• New parking restrictions
• New hours of operation for existing parking zones for the Great Homer Street area
• New hours of operation for existing parking zones for the Ten Streets and Love Lane areas
• New industrial parking zone south of Boundary Street
• New industrial parking zone north of Boundary Street
• The overall aim of the new Parking Zone is to reduce congestion, improve air quality and safety to and from the stadium. The proposals have also been designed to complement the planned modernisation of parking across the city centre.
The Council’s Highways and Transportation team has already begun the process of installing new signage ahead of Everton’s first “test match” at the waterfront stadium, situated within Liverpool Waters, which will be held on Monday, 17 February.
Scheduled to open for the 2025/26 season, Everton’s new home has already been picked as a venue for the UEFA European Championships in 2028 and will also be capable of hosting major non-footballing events.
Councillor Dan Barrington, Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport and Connectivity, said: “Everton Stadium is going to be transformational especially for the surrounding Ten Streets district and the wider Kirkdale community.
“As well as the economic benefit, the vast volume of people the stadium will attract – and how they arrive and depart – needs to be carefully managed.
“The North Docks area has never had to cope with such large numbers of people in such concentrated time periods, but fortunately the city has the experience and knowledge thanks to Goodison Park and Anfield.
"By creating this new match day parking zone, we’ll be looking to adopt and incorporate those controls which so effectively move tens of thousands on a weekly basis."