The same all-day stay costs £8 at Hook Road and £25 at the Ashley Centre. Every 2026/27 council tariff, the free car parks, and the £25 lock-in fee.
Epsom’s car parks are within a few minutes’ walk of each other, and an all-day stay in one of them costs more than three times what it costs in another. Leave a car at Depot Road for the day and you pay £8. Leave it at the Ashley Centre or Hope Lodge and you pay £25.
Nothing on the council’s own pages puts those two numbers next to each other. This page does, along with the car parks that charge nothing at all, and the £25 fee for getting locked in overnight.
All the figures below come from the Epsom and Ewell Borough Council (Off-Street Parking Places) Order March 2026, made on 1 April 2026 and in force from 12 April 2026, and from the fees schedule published alongside it.
The quick answer
- Cheapest all day in Epsom: £8 at Hook Road, Depot Road, Upper High Street or West Hill.
- Dearest all day: £25 at the Ashley Centre, Hope Lodge and Town Hall rear.
- £25 a year buys the Epsom Daily Parker, which cuts Hook Road to £5 a day and the Ashley Centre to £10.
- Free car parks exist: Stoneleigh Parade gives three hours free, and Chessington Road and Ewell Court House are free outright.
- Sunday is a flat rate: £3 across Epsom, £2 across Ewell.
- On-street parking is not the borough’s. Surrey County Council has run it since 2023.
- Hook Road locks its gates at night. Getting your car out afterwards costs £25.
What a full day costs
Epsom town centre car parks
| Car park | 1 hour | All day | Spaces |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depot Road | £2.00 | £8.00 over 5 hours | 258 |
| Upper High Street | £2.00 | £8.00 over 5 hours | 180 |
| Hook Road | n/a | £8.00 for 5 to 24 hours | 530 |
| West Hill | £2.50 | £8.00 over 4 hours | 12 |
| Ashley Centre | £2.50 | £25.00 over 6 hours | 649 |
| Hope Lodge | £3.20 | £25.00 over 5 hours | 83 |
| Town Hall (rear) | £3.20 | £25.00 over 5 hours | 85 |
| Town Hall (front) | £3.20 | 2 hour maximum stay | 5 |
Tariffs from the council’s car park fees and charges schedule; space counts from its car parks page. Hook Road has no hourly rate, starting at £3.50 for up to three hours.
Three practical points follow from that table.
- If you are staying more than about three hours, walk the extra few minutes to Depot Road or Upper High Street. The saving is £17.
- The Ashley Centre is the biggest and most central, and it is priced for short visits. Up to one hour is £2.50, up to three is £5.50.
- Height limits apply. Ashley Centre and Hook Road cap at 1.9m, Depot Road and Upper High Street at 2m. The council says none of its car parks can take motorhomes, and there is no lorry or coach parking anywhere in the borough.
Evenings and Sundays
After 5.30pm Monday to Saturday, most Epsom car parks cap at £5 until 12.30am, or £10 overnight until 9am. You pay whichever is lower, the hourly rate or the cap.
Sunday is a flat £3 for the whole day in Epsom, and £2 in Ewell.
One trap in the Ashley Centre. The evening and overnight caps only apply to vehicles that entered after 5.30pm. Arrive at 4pm and stay into the evening and you are on the daytime tariff, which reaches £25.
Ewell and Stoneleigh car parks
| Car park | 1 hour | Longest stay | Spaces |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bourne Hall, Spring Street | £1.20 | £4.00, 4 hour maximum | 100 |
| Dorset House, Cheam Road | £1.00 | £6.00 over 4 hours | 68 |
| Ewell High Street | £1.00 | £6.00 over 4 hours | 46 |
| Stoneleigh Parade | Free | £6.00 over 5 hours | n/a |
Ewell is materially cheaper than Epsom. Bourne Hall also does 30 minutes for 60p, and caps at £1 in the evening after 6.30pm.
Where you can park free
This is the part the council never collects in one place. Several car parks in the borough charge nothing, and one of the busiest gives you three hours.
- Stoneleigh Parade: the first 3 hours are free. After that it is £4 up to five hours and £6 beyond. It is cashless, RingGo only.
- Chessington Road, Richard’s Fields: free at all times. Three hour maximum from 8.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday, unlimited otherwise, including bank holidays.
- Ewell Court House: free. Three hour maximum 7am to 6pm Monday to Friday, unlimited otherwise. Blue Badge holders have no maximum stay.
- Court Recreation Ground, Long Grove Park and Poole Road Recreation Ground: free, no charge listed at any time.
- Alexandra Recreation Ground and Gibraltar Recreation Ground: free, four hour maximum 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday.
- Motorcycles park free at the Ashley Centre, Bourne Hall, Town Hall rear and Upper High Street.
- Loading bays at Bourne Hall, Ewell Court House and the Town Hall give 20 minutes free.
Court Recreation Ground carries an unusual condition. Vehicles present between 12.01am and 10am on a weekday must leave by noon the same day.
The Epsom Daily Parker, and the Hook Road gates
If you park in Epsom regularly, the single most useful thing on the council’s website is buried on a page most people never reach. The Epsom Daily Parker scheme costs £25 a year, expiring in March 2027, and it changes the maths completely:
- Hook Road falls from £8 to £5 all day.
- Ashley Centre falls from £25 to £10 all day.
For a commuter using Hook Road five days a week, the £25 pays for itself in about nine days. Members get a hidden RingGo location code for Hook Road, or have their number plate added to the Ashley Centre ANPR system. Using the code without a membership gets you a penalty charge notice.
Hook Road has two other things worth knowing.
It is cashless. Since 1 April 2025 the barriers, parker cards and tokens no longer work. It is permit or RingGo only. If you cannot use RingGo, the council points you to Depot Road or Upper High Street.
It locks. The gates close at 11pm Monday to Friday, 8pm on Saturday and 5pm on Sunday, and the car park is shut all day on Christmas Day, Easter Sunday and bank holidays. Every other council car park is open 24 hours. If your car is inside when it locks, the fees schedule lists a release of vehicle charge of £25.
One inconsistency to flag. The council’s fees schedule still prints “Closed on Sunday and Bank Holidays” against Hook Road. That wording is out of date. The whole stated purpose of the March 2026 Order, in the council’s own public notice, was “to open Hook Road Car Park on a Sunday from 9:00am to 5:00pm”. The car parks page agrees. Hook Road is open on Sundays and closed on bank holidays.
Permits
Permits split two ways in this borough, and getting the wrong one is an expensive mistake.
Council car park permits
For the borough’s own car parks, annual permits are priced by site:
| Car park | Permit | Price a year |
|---|---|---|
| Adelphi Road | Resident | £200 |
| Chessington Road | Annual | £500 |
| Hook Road | Resident | £500 |
| Hook Road | Annual | £890 |
| Stoneleigh Parade | Resident | £500 |
| Stoneleigh Parade | Non-resident or business | £890 |
| Upper High Street | Resident | £500 |
| Ashley Centre | Annual | £2,675 |
| Hudson House | Resident | £1,335 |
Eligibility is street-specific. Resident permits at Hook Road and Stoneleigh Parade require you to live within 300 metres of the car park. Adelphi Road permits are for people living in Adelphi Road, and Upper High Street permits for Upper High Street or Stevens Close. Hudson House needs a £100 fob deposit on top.
There are also evening and weekend permits for Hope Lodge and the Ashley Centre at £500 a year, valid from 4pm on weekdays until 9am, and all day at weekends.
On-street permits are Surrey’s, not the borough’s
This is the single most confusing thing about parking here. Since 1 April 2023, Surrey County Council has run all on-street parking, including resident permit zones, bay suspensions and enforcement. Epsom and Ewell Borough Council only runs the car parks.
Surrey’s resident permit prices are:
- £88 for a household’s first permit
- £108 for the second
- £138 for the third and any after that
- £108 for a childcare permit
- Free for carers’ and operational permits
- £2 for an all-day visitor permit, capped at 150 a year, or £1 for two hours, capped at 250
A £15 fee applies to permanently change the vehicle on a permit. A temporary change, such as a courtesy car, is free for up to two weeks.
Two warnings. Surrey’s own page contradicts itself on price: the fees section gives £88, £108 and £138, while the FAQ lower down still shows the older £84, £104 and £134. The higher set is the current one. And Surrey states clearly that none of its permits are valid in any district or borough council car park, so an on-street resident permit will not park you at Depot Road.
Blue Badge parking
Do not assume a Blue Badge parks you free here. The council’s disabled parking page says charges apply in all its car parks.
- In pay and display car parks a badge holder gets one hour free, subject to paying the minimum fee. For a two hour stay you buy a one hour ticket. For three hours you buy two.
- At the Ashley Centre, scan the badge at the pay station or the exit, or register it against your number plate. Scanning cuts an hour off your parking time, which does not always cut the tariff.
- At the Ashley Centre and Hook Road a discount card is available on application instead.
- At Newplan House and the Rainbow Leisure Centre, Blue Badge parking is free.
- At Ewell Court House there is no maximum stay for badge holders.
Adding up the bay counts the council publishes for its eleven listed car parks gives 78 designated Blue Badge bays in the borough. They are heavily concentrated: the Ashley Centre alone has 38, the Town Hall rear has nine, and Depot Road, Upper High Street and Bourne Hall have five each. West Hill and the Town Hall front have two.
On-street, a badge lets you park on single or double yellow lines for up to three hours with the clock displayed, provided there is no loading ban. Time limited and residents’ bays are free and unlimited with a badge. The badge itself costs £10 and is administered by Surrey County Council, normally for three years.
Station parking
There is almost none. National Rail lists Epsom station as having 29 parking spaces, one of them accessible. For a station on both the Waterloo and Victoria routes, that is nothing, and it explains why the council built a commuter scheme around Hook Road.
Hook Road is the practical commuter option: 530 spaces, £8 a day, or £5 with the Daily Parker. Note the gates, and note that it is closed on bank holidays.
Do not confuse Epsom with Epsom Downs, a separate station on a different line with its own small car park.
Penalty charge notices
Off-street PCNs are still issued by the borough. Its schedule sets:
- Higher level contravention: £70, or £35 within 14 days
- Lower level contravention: £50, or £25 within 14 days
Challenge within the 14 day window and the case is held at the discount rate. If the challenge is rejected you get another 14 days at the discount. After 28 days a Notice to Owner goes to the registered keeper, and the charge can rise by 50 per cent after that.
Anything issued on or after 1 April 2023 for an on-street contravention is Surrey’s, so use the contact details printed on the ticket. Only PCNs numbered with the old “EE” or “PM” prefixes go back to the borough.
The council also notes that parking restrictions are enforced at all times, including bank holidays.
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