Fairfield Road Car Park

Cheap parking @ £2.50 all day on weekends. 5 mins to the shops and a bonus of the cathedral on route.

Good little car park, it can be a bit confusing on entrance, make sure you don't go straight on into the permit holder only bit.

Minimal spaces though. Accepts MiPermit for payment.

£2 an hour, £9 a day. Needs a permit to use. NOT for public use.

Normally can park there at 7:30 lots of availability at that time.

Unable to park at 11 am as most of the car park is now permit holders only..needed to park to visit the hub for a blood test. Most disappointing.

Us d to be quite crowded and busy before Covid lockdown(s), now generally always get a parking spot without too much bother.
Pay before the xiting at the 2 machines by the street level pedestrian entry from the Baytree, use your paid ticket to get though the exit barriers.
30 minutes free Mon - Sat then increasing to £1 for an hour and goes up in sensible increments the longer you stay.
On Sundays a £2 flat fee for all day applies, presumably for those who want to read their newspaper in one of the coffee shops, have breakfast/ lunch, do a bit of shopping, meet friends without clock watching.
Free parking in the 2 weeks in the run up to Christmas.
Cheaper than Chelmsford who sting you for £1.50 as soon as you drive in and collect your ticket whether you park for 5 minutes or an hour. Over an hour goes up in BIG increments, same in some other town car parks around Essex.

Wow it's expensive! Just needed two hours of parking and in a rush so no time to find anywhere else. At 3pm it was £8.50 for anything over one hour, a mistake I won't be making again.

Much cheaper parking than town centre at £2.50 a day at the weekends.
Only a short walk to town centre