Parking in Bude

Rules for parking on the street

If you display your blue badge correctly and your vehicle isn’t causing an obstruction, you can park in or on:

• Limited parking areas – for an unlimited time
• Yellow lines – for 3 hours or less
• Resident parking zones – for 3 hours or less
• Disabled bays – for an unlimited time unless roadside signs show time limits

Blue badge holders can’t park in:

• An area where there is a loading restriction
• An area specifically reserved for other vehicles or purposes. Such as taxi ranks, reserved spaces in car parks, bus stops or loading bays

Rules for parking in Council car parks

Blue badge holders must pay the normal parking fee unless:

• The vehicle is registered under Cornwall Council’s exemption scheme

or

• The vehicle is especially adapted for a disabled person – How to register if you have an adapted vehicle for a disabled person

You must display a valid blue badge with the clock showing when you arrived, whether you have to pay for parking or not.

If you don’t correctly display your badge and clock, you may receive a penalty charge notice.

Blue badge holders paying a parking fee automatically get one extra hour of free parking. For example, if you correctly display a blue badge and pay for 2 hours, you can park for 3 hours.

If no disabled spaces are available, you can park in a normal space as long as it’s not marked for other uses, such as reserved parking or loading areas.

The JustPark Wallet lets you pre load funds into a dedicated wallet in the JustPark app.  You load £25 pay up front, and then use your pre-paid credit to get a discounted rate at the Cornwall Council car parks in Bude.  The tickets last for two years, and 24-hour parking using this method costs just £2.50.

You’ll need a JustPark account and the JustPark app downloaded on your smartphone.  Each day you need to park, you simply book your parking using the JustPark app.  When selecting your payment method, select your Wallet. The discounted tariff will then be applied and the payment will be taken from your wallet.

A rover ticket lets you park your car at The Crescent, Crooklets Beach and Summerleaze Beach in Bude (and many across Cornwall) for one week, for a single payment.

You can now buy them to start at any time of the day, so you can park immediately after you have paid if you need to.  A seven-day Countywide Rover ticket is £60.

Currently, Cornwall Council prohibit the parking of motorhomes and campers between 11pm – 8am in all of their car parks.

From Summer 2024 (exact date TBC), overnight parking will be permitted at The Crescent car park (here at the Bude Tourist Information Centre).

• The stopover will be available to leisure leisure vehicles with onboard toilet, fresh water, greywater and septic waste.
• Between 1 April and 31 October the charge is expected to be £20.
• Between 1 November and 31 March, it will be £15.
• Maximum stay is two nights.
• No pre-booking.

Best places to park

• The Crescent Car Park at the Bude Tourist Information Centre (EX23 8LE) has an overflow field which is great for mortorhome and campervan parking in Bude.  It’s currently closed whilst the Bude Canal is dredged, but should be open again for summer 2024.

Where not to park

• During school holidays, we strongly advise that you do not drive a motorhome or campervan larger than a minibus into Summerleaze Beach car park – it’s easy to get into the car park, but can be very difficult to get out if cars are parked badly!