The council wants to know where parking fails in Hornsea and the survey shuts on Tuesday 20 October. The town has 688 council spaces and no permit zone.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is asking people where parking goes wrong in Hornsea, and the survey closes on Tuesday 20 October.

The council opened the Hornsea Parking Review on 5 August. On its own consultation page it says that “over recent years, it has been reported that Hornsea has experienced increased parking pressures, which can affect parking availability, road safety and access for residents, visitors, businesses and essential services”.

It is also candid about why the review is a survey rather than a scheme. “The Council has limited resources and cannot undertake full town-wide parking reviews everywhere at the same time,” the page says, “so this survey is an important first step in identifying where issues are most significant.”

The stated purpose is to find out where problems happen, when they are worst and what kind they are. The answers will be used, the council says, “together with Hornsea elected representatives” to pick priority areas for further work, “including potential traffic management or parking measures, when resources allow”.

Responses are anonymous. The survey is open to residents, visitors, businesses and anyone who travels into the town.

What Hornsea has now

The council’s own car and coach park finder lists seven council car parks in Hornsea, with 688 marked car spaces between them. Two of the seven are free.

Car park Postcode Spaces Stay Cost
Burton Road HU18 1TJ 200 Long Free
Eastgate HU18 1NJ 107 Long Charges apply
Sands Lane HU18 1QB 100 Long Charges apply
Broadway HU18 1PW 97 Long Charges apply
East Riding Leisure Hornsea HU18 1PZ 80 Long Charges apply
Morrow Avenue HU18 1HT 54 Long Free
Newbegin HU18 1AB 50 Short and medium Charges apply
Bar chart of council car parks in Hornsea by number of spaces: Burton Road 200 free, Eastgate 107 charged, Sands Lane 100 charged, Broadway 97 charged, East Riding Leisure Hornsea 80 charged, Morrow Avenue 54 free, Newbegin 50 charged. Total 688 spaces, 254 of them free.
Council car parks in Hornsea, by marked car spaces. Source: East Riding of Yorkshire Council car and coach park finder. Graphic by East Riding Today.
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Two details in that table matter more than the total.

  • 254 of the 688 spaces are free, and both free car parks are long stay. Burton Road alone, at 200 spaces, is the largest car park in the town and costs nothing.
  • Only one car park is short stay. Newbegin has 39 short-stay spaces, nine medium-stay and two disabled bays. Every other council car park in Hornsea is long stay, so there is very little parking in the town designed to turn over quickly for people running an errand.

The East Riding Leisure car park on Broadway also has eight motorcycle bays and two Pod Point electric vehicle charging points.

Hornsea Town Council publishes its own parking page listing pay and display and free parking locations around the town. Its list is not the same as the district council’s, because it also covers places the district council does not operate.

Hornsea has no permit zone, and getting one would mean a CPZ

Neither of the two permit schemes the council runs covers Hornsea.

Controlled Parking Zones, where you can park all day with a resident’s permit and for a limited time without one, operate in Bridlington, Beverley and Howden. That is the whole list.

Resident Parking Schemes, which apply to single streets rather than areas, run on named streets in Anlaby, Brough, Hessle and Willerby. Again, that is the whole list, and the council says it “no longer puts in Resident Parking Schemes as Controlled Parking Zones are the preferred method to tackle commuter parking problems over a wider area”.

So if this review ever leads to permit parking in Hornsea, it would be a Controlled Parking Zone. On the council’s worked example of CPZ signage, the restriction runs 8am to 6pm: permit holders park full time, everyone else gets two hours and cannot return to the same street within an hour. Between 6pm and 8am anyone can park. Times vary street by street.

One point often missed, and the council states it plainly: blue badge holders may park in on-street bays without paying and displaying, but the council charges them in off-street car parks. Its reasoning is that “disability is not necessarily related to the ability to pay”, and it provides dedicated bays instead. Hornsea’s seven car parks have 27 disabled bays between them.

What it means for you

If parking near your house, your shop or your school is the thing you would change about Hornsea, this is the document that decides whether the council looks at it. It is explicitly a ranking exercise: the council is deciding where to spend the attention it has.

  • Deadline: Tuesday 20 October 2026. Complete the Hornsea Parking Review survey.
  • Answers are anonymous, and the council uses SmartSurvey to run it.
  • For a paper copy or another format, email traffic.management@eastriding.gov.uk.
  • Be specific about street, time of day and the kind of problem. The survey’s stated job is to find “where parking problems occur, when they are most noticeable, and the types of issues people experience”, so a named road and a time of day is worth more than a general complaint.

Two things worth knowing about the wider picture. This is the only consultation on the council’s register that is still open by its own closing date; the only other entry currently flagged as open, the Humber Bridge Country Park Exercise Area and Wellbeing Hub survey, shows a closing date of 31 August 2026. And the council has been clear that the survey buys a place in a queue rather than a scheme, so a strong response is what moves Hornsea up it.

Hornsea sits on the Holderness coast about 12 miles east of Beverley. If you are driving over, our Beverley parking guide covers the town at the other end of the road, and the East Riding roadworks and travel page has the current closures.

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