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Parking

There is a variety of parking options in New Plymouth's CBD, from on-street to off-street and leased parking spaces.

Four easy ways to pay

We've upgraded our ageing parking meters in the city centre, with new modern units that give you a range of payment options:

  • Coin*
  • Credit or debit card
  • PayMyPark app via the app on your smartphone.
  • Touch N Go. This is a new system for the district, which allows users to use an NFC (near field communication) enabled device to make contactless payments by ‘tapping’ the screen to access. Alternatively scan the QR code that appears on the Touch N Go unit. This payment option will be available from 3 March 2025. Check out the video.

* Not all machines are able to take coins but those that do will be clearly marked.

 

Pay by Plate  

From 17 February 2025, we moved to a pay-by-plate system, which means instead of typing a parking bay number into the machine or your app, you use your vehicle's number plate.

Paying by plate means you can move to another metered car park, without having to pay again, provided you still have time left on your on-street parking session. This does not apply to Warehouse Car Park, Downtown Car Park or leased parking.

 

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10 minute courtesy period

The parking meters and Touch N Go machines have an in-built 10-minute courtesy period for you to arrange your payment for parking. If you're going to be less than 10 minutes, then by all means duck in and out free of charge - just be sure to return before the 10 minutes are up!

Printable PDF - How to use parking machines 

Printable PDF - Parking meters map in New Plymouth

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