Park Street Car Park reopens in Cambridge city centre

After nearly three years, the Park Street Car Park has reopened.

Shut since January 2022, Cambridge City Council’s new Park Street car and cycle park opened on Tuesday 26 November 2024.

The site has undergone a major redevelopment, but now boasts over 200 car parking spaces, each one with the infrastructure in place to become an EV charging point.

Above ground, a new aparthotel is under construction, due to open in spring 2025.

The new site offers:

• Secure parking for 239 bicycles, 10 oversized bicycles, and 20 motorcycles, with the design of the space developed in collaboration with Camcycle 
• 223 underground car parking spaces, including 23 active EV charging spaces, and 200 passive EV charging spaces (set up with the cables and power supply necessary to enable sockets to be added easily as need increases) – as part of the council’s wider commitment to installing 800 EV chargers in the city’s car parks through a partnership with Connected Kerb
• 16 blue badge parking spaces, two of which are EV charging spaces
• A new landscaped central courtyard linking Park and Bridge Streets
• And a new aparthotel to be operated by Staycity as part of its Wilde brand portfolio, which will target BREEAM Excellent status using air source heat pumps and recycled rainwater.

Simon Smith, Executive Councillor for Finance and Resources at Cambridge City Council:

"The opening of Park Street represents a real milestone for the council.

We took the decision to invest in this project because the previous car park was aging, and it offered us an opportunity to develop new facilities that will play an important part in supporting people shifting to greener travel options with the EV charging and the substantially improved facilities for secure cycle parking."