FIGHTING FOR A SPACE

With seemingly more cars on the road every year, finding a decent parking spot in town and city centres around the UK becomes more and more of a fight. But where in the UK is it the hardest, and easiest, to find a decent car parking space for residents and visitors? To find out, All Car Leasing compared the number of public car parking spaces in some of the UK's biggest towns and cities with the number of registered cars on the road, to show where it's easiest to secure a spot. The city where motorists find it the easiest to find a place to park is Norwich, with just 6.2 registered cars for every available space in the city, with two car parks with over 1,000 spaces each. This was followed by Reading (7.5 cars per space) and Southampton (9.1 cars per space), although some bigger cities also made the top ten, such as Glasgow (11.4 cars per space) and Manchester (12.6 cars per space). But which are the towns and cities where drivers have the biggest headaches when it comes to parking? Despite having over 12,000 parking spaces, Birmingham came out as the hardest place to grab a spot, with over 600,000 registered cars in the city, meaning that there are 51.5 cars for every space. This was followed by Edinburgh (39.8 cars per space) and Bradford (38.8 cars per space).