Parking in Sevenoaks: from £1.10 an hour, £5.30 all day

If you drive into Sevenoaks town centre, where you leave the car makes a real difference to what you pay. Six council car parks sit within a few minutes’ walk of the High Street, there is a seventh at the council offices that is free at weekends, and the council also runs eleven separate on-street pay and display locations around the town and the station. The price for the same two hours across them swings from £2.10 to £4.20. This page sets out every one, what it costs in 2026, when parking is free, and the rules on permits, blue badges and station parking, with each figure linked back to the council record it came from.

All the town centre car parks below are run by Sevenoaks District Council unless we say otherwise, and the district council also runs the on-street bays as agent for Kent County Council, the highway authority. The railway station car parks are run separately by APCOA. Tariffs change, usually each April, so always glance at the sign or the council page before you pay.

The quick answer

For a quick errand on the High Street itself, the on-street bays are the ones to aim for: £1.10 for 30 minutes and £1.60 for an hour, though the maximum stay is two hours. Of the car parks, Bradbourne has the lowest hourly rate at £1.60. If you are parking all day as a commuter or worker, Sevenoaks Town (the multi-storey, formerly Buckhurst 2) is built for that at £5.80, and Plymouth Drive and Holly Bush Lane undercut it on-street at £5.30. Blighs is the most central car park and the priciest, at £10.60 for four hours. Council parking is free on public and bank holidays, and the station-side streets are free all day on a Sunday, but most of the town charges on Sundays, so do not assume it is free.

Sevenoaks car parks at a glance

Bradbourne’s all-day rate is £8.50 on a weekday and £5.30 at weekends. The Sevenoaks Town hourly rates shown are its weekend prices; on weekdays it is priced for all-day parking (£4.80 up to five hours, £5.80 all day). Suffolk Way, Buckhurst 1, the Stag Theatre car park and Blighs are short-stay car parks with a four-hour maximum (£5.30, £5.30, £5.30 and £10.60 for four hours). A seventh car park, at the District Council Offices off Gordon Road, is free at weekends and is covered below, as are the on-street bays. Full details for each are below.

The main Sevenoaks car parks and 2026 tariffs

Blighs (TN13 1XR): central but premium

Blighs sits right by the shops off the High Street and is the most convenient for the centre, which is reflected in the price. It has 205 short stay spaces including 9 blue badge bays, with a maximum stay of 4 hours and no return within 2 hours.

Charges per the council’s Blighs page:

• 30 minutes: £1.10
• 1 hour: £2.10
• 2 hours: £4.20
• 3 hours: £6.40
• 4 hours: £10.60

It is free on public and bank holidays.

What it means for you: Blighs is fine for a quick half hour or an hour, but it gets expensive fast. Two hours costs a pound more here than at Suffolk Way, and four hours is more than double. For anything beyond a short shop, park elsewhere and walk the few extra minutes.

Bradbourne (TN13 3YD): the cheapest hourly rate

Bradbourne is a large car park with 420 spaces, including 20 premium spaces, up to 10 blue badge bays and two electric charging points. Charges apply Monday to Sunday, 8.30am to 6.30pm. Per the council’s Bradbourne page:

• 1 hour: £1.60
• 2 hours: £2.70
• 3 hours: £3.70
• 4 hours: £4.80
• All day, weekday (over 5 hours): £8.50
• All day, weekend (over 4 hours): £5.30

Bradbourne also sells season tickets: £32 a week, £128 a month, £355 for three months, £700 for six months and £1,380 for a year, with a premium annual permit at £2,650.

What it means for you: for short stays Bradbourne is the cheapest of the town centre options by the hour, so if you do not mind a slightly longer walk it is the value pick for a couple of hours of shopping.

Suffolk Way (TN13 1LW): central and mid-priced

Suffolk Way has 221 short stay spaces including 9 accessible bays, with a 4 hour maximum and no return within 2 hours. Charges apply Monday to Sunday, 8.30am to 8.30pm, which is a longer charging window than most. Per the council’s Suffolk Way page:

• 1 hour: £2.10
• 2 hours: £3.20
• 3 hours: £4.20
• 4 hours: £5.30

Free on public and bank holidays.

What it means for you: Suffolk Way is a sensible middle option, close to the centre and noticeably cheaper than Blighs for two to four hours. Note the charging runs until 8.30pm, later than Bradbourne, so an evening visit may still cost you here.

Buckhurst 1 (TN13 1LX): small and short stay

Buckhurst 1 is a smaller car park with 76 short stay spaces including 3 blue badge bays. Charges apply Monday to Sunday, 8.30am to 8.30pm, with a 4 hour maximum and no return within 2 hours. Rates match Suffolk Way, per the council’s Buckhurst 1 page:

• 1 hour: £2.10
• 2 hours: £3.20
• 3 hours: £4.20
• 4 hours: £5.30

Free on public and bank holidays.

Sevenoaks Town, formerly Buckhurst 2 (TN13 1LW): best for all day

The multi-storey Sevenoaks Town car park is the long stay option, with 480 spaces and up to 19 blue badge bays. It is aimed at commuters, town workers and anyone needing the whole day. Charges apply 8.30am to 8.30pm. Per the council’s Sevenoaks Town page:

Weekday (Monday to Friday):

• Up to 5 hours: £4.80
• All day: £5.80
• Weekly cashless ticket: £27 (plus a 10p fee)

Weekend (Saturday and Sunday):

• 1 hour: £1.10
• 2 hours: £2.10
• 3 hours: £3.20
• 4 hours: £4.20
• 5 hours: £4.80
• All day: £5.80

Free on public and bank holidays.

It also offers season tickets: a commuter or business permit at £265 for three months or £1,050 a year, a resident annual permit at £320 for a first car and £640 for a second, and dusk till dawn permits from £54 to £320.

What it means for you: if you are leaving the car for the working day, Sevenoaks Town is the one to use. All day at £5.80 is cheaper than parking all day at Bradbourne on a weekday, and the weekend hourly rates here are the lowest of the car parks. The weekly cashless ticket at £27 works out at well under £6 a day if you commute by car five days a week.

Stag Theatre, South Park (TN13 1XR): the south end of town

The Stag Theatre car park at South Park is the sixth council car park in the centre and the one most people miss, because it is signed for the theatre rather than for the shops. It has 136 short stay spaces including six blue badge bays, a four-hour maximum and no return within two hours. Charges apply Monday to Sunday, 8.30am to 8.30pm, and the rates match Suffolk Way and Buckhurst 1, per the council’s Stag Theatre car park page:

• 1 hour: £2.10
• 2 hours: £3.20
• 3 hours: £4.20
• 4 hours: £5.30

Free on public and bank holidays.

What it means for you: if you are at the Stag for an evening performance, charging runs to 8.30pm, so a 7.30pm curtain means paying for the first hour only. It is also the closest car park to the south end of the High Street.

On-street pay and display in Sevenoaks

Alongside the car parks, the council runs eleven on-street pay and display locations in Sevenoaks on behalf of Kent County Council, the highway authority. These are the marked bays on the street itself, paid for at the same machines and through the same MiPermit app, and they are usually the cheapest way to park for a short stop.

They split into two groups with quite different rules.

Every one of these bays charges £1.10 for 30 minutes, except Morewood Close (West), which charges 60p. All are free on public and bank holidays, and the Monday to Saturday bays are also free all day on a Sunday. An eleventh location, Morewood Close (East), is left out of the table because the council’s own record for it is contradictory: it gives the hours as Monday to Sunday but then says the bay is free on Sundays, and lists both £5.30 and £8.50 as the all-day price. Read the machine there rather than trusting any published figure, including ours.

The town centre bays: short, central and cheap

The High Street, London Road and South Park bays are the ones that put you outside the shops. All three run to the same rules: £1.10 for 30 minutes, £1.60 an hour, £3.20 for two hours, a two-hour maximum and no return within an hour, charged every day from 8.30am to 8.30pm.

What it means for you: for a half hour at the bank or the butcher, £1.10 on the High Street beats walking in from a car park, and an hour there is the same £1.60 as Bradbourne without the walk. Past two hours the bays are no use to you, and the no-return rule means you cannot simply buy another ticket.

The all-day on-street bays

Plymouth Drive and Holly Bush Lane both allow all day at £5.30, seven days a week, which is 50p under the £5.80 all-day rate at Sevenoaks Town and £3.20 under Bradbourne on a weekday. Neither publishes a maximum stay. Plymouth Drive stops charging at 6.30pm, Holly Bush Lane at 8.30pm.

The station streets: free on Sundays, £8.50 the rest of the week

Ashley Road, Ashley Close, Chestnut Lane and St Botolphs Road are the commuter streets by the station. They charge Monday to Saturday only, so they are free all day on a Sunday, but at £8.50 for the day they are level with Bradbourne’s weekday rate and dearer than any council car park bar Blighs.

Morewood Close (West) is the outlier and the cheapest hourly parking in Sevenoaks: 60p for 30 minutes, £1.10 an hour and £4.20 for four hours, again Monday to Saturday and free on Sundays. It publishes no all-day rate.

What it means for you: if you are meeting a train rather than catching one, Morewood Close (West) is half the price of the Ashley Road group and well under the station car park. For a full commuting week these streets are poor value against a Sevenoaks Town season ticket, and on a Sunday all of them cost nothing.

When parking is free in Sevenoaks

Two kinds of free parking are worth knowing about.

Public and bank holidays. The council car parks listed above are free on public and bank holidays. That covers days such as Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday and the spring and summer bank holidays.

Sundays are charged in most of the town, free in part of it. At the car parks, Sunday is treated as a normal charging day, so you do pay, though the Sevenoaks Town car park has low weekend hourly rates (£1.10 for the first hour). The District Council Offices car park off Gordon Road (TN13 1HG) is free on Saturdays and Sundays from 7am to 7pm, and it has four electric vehicle charging points open to the public from 6pm on Fridays and all weekend, run on the Carbon3 network, so you will need the Carbon3 app and your own cable. The five station-side streets are free all day on a Sunday because they charge Monday to Saturday only.

What it means for you: if you are heading in on a Sunday, perhaps for a day out around the town, park at the Gordon Road council offices or on Ashley Road, Ashley Close, Chestnut Lane, St Botolphs Road or Morewood Close (West) and pay nothing. Do not assume the same on the High Street, at Plymouth Drive or in any of the car parks, because all of those charge on a Sunday. Our separate guide to free parking in Sevenoaks sets out every free option and the hours that go with it.

Permits and season tickets

If you are in town regularly, a season ticket usually beats paying daily. Bradbourne and Sevenoaks Town both sell them, as set out above. Sevenoaks Town also offers resident permits and dusk till dawn permits. The full range, including waivers and bay suspensions for things like house moves, is on the council’s parking permits and season tickets page.

What it means for you: a commuter buying a Sevenoaks Town annual permit at £1,050 pays roughly £4 a working day, less than the £5.80 all day rate, so the permit pays for itself if you drive in most days.

Blue badge parking

Blue badge holders get a good deal across the district. The council says disabled drivers “may park in pay and display, time limited bays, resident permit bays, car parks and on street bays (excluding loading bays) for as long as necessary providing a valid Blue Badge is on display”, per the council’s blue badge page.

In practice that means no time limit and no charge in the council pay and display car parks when a valid badge is on display, and the only place you cannot use the badge is a loading bay. Each car park also has marked blue badge bays, from 3 at Buckhurst 1 up to 19 at Sevenoaks Town.

What it means for you: with a valid blue badge you can park free and without a time limit in the council car parks. At the railway station the rules differ and are set by APCOA, covered below.

Station parking for commuters

Sevenoaks railway station has its own car parks run by APCOA, not the council, so the tariffs and rules are separate.

Sevenoaks Station Car Park A has 127 spaces including 13 disabled spaces, is open 24/7, and has a height limit of 2.10 metres. Sample daily rates are £8.80 on a Saturday and £5.80 on a Sunday or bank holiday, with all daily tickets expiring at 4am. Season tickets, valid Monday to Friday, run to £210.20 a month, £630.60 a quarter, £1,241 for half a year and £2,187 for a year.

APCOA states that “free parking is offered to all blue badge holders”, though you have to register first through its blue badge portal. You can pay by cash at the machine, through the APCOA Connect app (location code 1945), or by season ticket.

The council’s own on-street bays are the alternative around the station: Ashley Road, Ashley Close, Chestnut Lane and St Botolphs Road at £8.50 for the day, Morewood Close (West) at £4.20 for four hours, and all five free on a Sunday, as set out in the on-street section above.

What it means for you: if you commute by train, an APCOA season ticket is the way to control the cost, and blue badge holders can park free at the station once registered. For a one-off Saturday, the streets behind the station are 30p cheaper than the £8.80 APCOA rate, and on a Sunday they cost nothing at all against APCOA’s £5.80. Watch the 4am expiry on daily tickets if you are coming back on a late train, and our guide to Sevenoaks train times to London sets out the fast and stopping services and which terminals they reach.

How to pay

Across the council car parks you can pay by cash or card at the machine, online at mipermit.com, through the MiPermit app, or by phone on 0345 520 7007. Each car park has its own MiPermit location number shown on the signs. At the station, APCOA uses its own Connect app and machines.

What it means for you: download MiPermit before you go and you can top up your stay from your phone without walking back to the machine, which is handy if a coffee turns into lunch.

Frequently asked questions

Is parking free in Sevenoaks on Sundays?

In part of the town, yes. The five station-side streets, Ashley Road, Ashley Close, Chestnut Lane, St Botolphs Road and Morewood Close (West), charge Monday to Saturday only, so they are free all day on a Sunday, and the District Council Offices car park off Gordon Road is free from 7am to 7pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Everywhere else, including the car parks and the High Street bays, treats Sunday as a normal charging day, although Sevenoaks Town has low Sunday hourly rates starting at £1.10. All council parking is free on public and bank holidays.

How many car parks are there in Sevenoaks?

There are six council-run car parks in Sevenoaks town centre: Blighs, Bradbourne, Suffolk Way, Buckhurst 1, the Stag Theatre car park at South Park and Sevenoaks Town (the multi-storey formerly called Buckhurst 2). Between them they hold roughly 1,540 spaces, from the small 76-space Buckhurst 1 to the 480-space Sevenoaks Town. On top of those, the District Council Offices car park off Gordon Road is free at weekends, the council runs eleven on-street pay and display locations around the town and the station, and the railway station has its own car parks run by APCOA.

Can you park on Sevenoaks High Street?

Yes. There are on-street pay and display bays on the High Street (TN13 1XA), and also on London Road and South Park. They cost £1.10 for 30 minutes, £1.60 an hour and £3.20 for two hours, charged every day from 8.30am to 8.30pm, with a two-hour maximum and no return within an hour. They are free on public and bank holidays but not on Sundays.

Which is the cheapest car park in Sevenoaks?

For short stays, Bradbourne has the lowest hourly rate of the car parks at £1.60 for the first hour, though the High Street, London Road and South Park on-street bays match it and are more central. Cheaper still is the Morewood Close (West) on-street bay near the station, at £1.10 an hour. For all day parking on a weekday, Sevenoaks Town is the best of the car parks at £5.80, or £4.80 for up to five hours, and the Plymouth Drive and Holly Bush Lane on-street bays are £5.30.

Where can I park all day in Sevenoaks?

Sevenoaks Town car park (the multi-storey off Buckhurst, formerly Buckhurst 2) is the main long stay car park, with all day parking at £5.80 and a weekly cashless ticket at £27. Bradbourne also offers all day parking, at £8.50 on weekdays and £5.30 at weekends. On the street, Plymouth Drive and Holly Bush Lane both allow all day at £5.30 seven days a week, and the station-side streets do so at £8.50, Monday to Saturday.

Do blue badge holders pay for parking in Sevenoaks?

In the council car parks, no. Blue badge holders can park free and with no time limit in council pay and display car parks and on street bays, except loading bays, as long as a valid badge is displayed. At the railway station, blue badge holders can park free but must first register with APCOA.

How much is parking at Sevenoaks railway station?

The station car parks are run by APCOA, not the council. Sample daily rates at Car Park A are £8.80 on a Saturday and £5.80 on a Sunday or bank holiday, with monthly season tickets at £210.20. Daily tickets expire at 4am.

Sources

• Sevenoaks District Council: Parking
• Sevenoaks District Council: Blighs car park tariff
• Sevenoaks District Council: Bradbourne car park tariff
• Sevenoaks District Council: Suffolk Way car park tariff
• Sevenoaks District Council: Buckhurst 1 car park tariff
• Sevenoaks District Council: Sevenoaks Town car park tariff
• Sevenoaks District Council: Stag Theatre (South Park) car park tariff
• Sevenoaks District Council: District Council Offices, off Gordon Road
• Sevenoaks District Council: town centre car parks directory
• Sevenoaks District Council: car parking for Sevenoaks station
• Sevenoaks District Council: street parking restrictions and who runs them
• Sevenoaks District Council: disabled parking bays and blue badge parking
• APCOA: Sevenoaks Station Car Park A

The on-street tariffs above come from the council’s individual record for each street, all of them linked in the table section. Tariffs are those published by Sevenoaks District Council and APCOA and are reviewed periodically, usually each April.

Every car park and on-street tariff on this page was checked against the council’s own records on 16 August 2026. Always check the sign or the official page before you pay.

Image: “Sevenoaks High Street” by Paul Gillett, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sevenoaks_High_Street_-geograph.org.uk-_2614599.jpg).