Parking Machines Trial 2025: South and Vale

Members of the public for their feedback on the trial parking machines—touch screen and keypad—located in Civic Car Park (Abingdon), Cattle Market (Wallingford), Goldsmith Lane (Wallingford) and West St Helen’s Street (Abingdon) from Wednesday 9 April until 11:59pm Monday 26 May 2025. The survey was promoted via posters located alongside the car park machines.

We received 36 completed responses. 44% of them used the Civic Car park machine in Abingdon followed by Goldsmiths Lane in Wallingford and West St Helen Street which both had 19% each and Cattle Street in Wallingford with 17%.

Touch screen machines

• Of the 61% (22 respondents) that used the touch screen machines, 50% agree that the instructions were easy to follow.
• 82% agree that the machine was easy to input vehicle registration details
• 45% felt the machine processed their payment quickly, 23% did not.
• 50% are happy to have an electronic ticket rather than a ticket to go on their dashboard, whilst 40% are not.

Keypad machines

• Of the 28% (10 respondents) that used the keypad machines, 60% agree that the instructions were easy to follow.
• 80% said it was easy to input their vehicle registration details
• 40% of respondents disagree that the machine processed their payment quickly, whilst 30% agreed.
• 50% disagree with having electronic ticket rather than a ticket to go on their dashboard, whilst 30% are.

The results have been reviewed and will be presented to council members at a full council meeting in Autumn 2025. If approved, the most appropriate car parking machine will be purchased and installed across all council-owned car parks in South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse. You can read the full Parking Machines Trial Report here.