Parking enforcement starts at Bude’s Parkhouse Centre car park

Park at the Parkhouse Centre after this weekend without checking the signs, and you could come back to a Penalty Charge Notice on your windscreen. From Saturday 1 August 2026, Bude-Stratton Town Council is bringing in parking enforcement at the Parkhouse Centre car park and the parking spaces on Ergue-Gaberic Way.

Who is doing the enforcing

As a small council, Bude-Stratton Town Council does not have the staff to patrol and enforce its own car parks. So Cornwall Council will do it on the Town Council’s behalf, the same arrangement used at other council-managed car parks across Cornwall.

From 1 August, Civil Enforcement Officers will be able to issue Penalty Charge Notices, or PCNs, where parking rules are not followed. The idea, the Town Council says, is to keep spaces used fairly and available for the people who need them.

Parking to the front of the Parkhouse Centre stays free of charge for users of the centre, and arrangements for Blue Badge holders are unchanged.

What it costs to park

Parking charges are set at £1.10 per hour, with an annual permit available for £225.

Motorcycles can park free of charge in a designated motorcycle space where one is provided. Park a motorcycle in a standard bay and the normal charge applies.

Blue Badge holders are required to pay the parking charge, but continue to get one additional hour free provided a valid Blue Badge is clearly displayed.

Free parking at Poughill Cemetery is unchanged, subject to the existing four-hour time limit.

What a fine will cost you

Penalty Charge Notices are set at £70 for higher level contraventions and £50 for lower level ones. Pay within 14 days and a 50% discount applies, halving those figures.

The advice from the Town Council is simple: check the parking signage and comply with the conditions to avoid a PCN in the first place.

Where the money goes

Income from parking charges is kept by Bude-Stratton Town Council and helps pay for the operation and maintenance of Town Council facilities and services.

Penalty Charge Notice income is a different matter. That does not go to the Town Council at all, and is administered by Cornwall Council. Full details are on the Town Council’s parking enforcement page.