Newham parking survey · Closes 17 Dec
The survey, on one screen
We won't tell you what to say. Screenshot the card, then open the survey. Answer honestly, in your own words.
Newham parking survey
Closes 17 Dec
- 1Page 1: your postcode, and what describes you.
- 2Page 2, first question: a car or other vehicle? If not:No
- 3Page 2, finding parking grid. Where it's hard, it goes up to:Fairly DifficultVery Difficult
- 4Page 2, free permit and free hour (5 questions). No car? These describe it:No benefitNo material difference to my household budget pressuresNeverI would not use thisNo benefits
- 5Page 4, last box before About You. Two or three sentences, your own words: do you have a car, how do you get around, who should pay?
- 6Page 5, last question. If the changes would hit you harder because of disability, caring or low income:Negative Impact
Everything else is optional. Skip it.
fairparkingnewham.org.uk · Resident-led. Not affiliated with Newham Council.
Page-by-page detail
Page 1
About you, briefly
Your name is optional. Your postcode is required. Then pick what best describes you. Residents, visitors and students get the same questions. Business, employee and community-group answers take a different route.
Page 2: the long one
Your travel and parking
The first three questions are required: whether you have a vehicle, your ward, and your permit zone. "I'm not sure" is an option for the zone.
If you have no car, say No to the first question. Without that, nobody can tell how many answers came from households without one.
Further down are the transport question ("Select how frequently you use the following forms of transport") and five questions about a free first permit and a free hour in another permit zone.
If your household has no car, these are the answers that describe it:
How much benefit a free first permit would bring you
What a free first permit would change for you
How often you'd use a free hour in another permit zone
How you'd use it
What difference it would make
Three of them also let you say it would make things worse, if that's how you see it. If you have a car, answer as it is for you.
Page 3
High streets
Three short questions, ending with one about an hour of free parking on high streets. Its answers include "It would make parking spaces more difficult to find" and "It would cause congestion", alongside the positive ones. Pick whatever you actually expect.
Page 4: where your words go
Kerb space, then two free-text boxes
First you rank what kerb space should be used for, and say whether you'd support turning some parking into other uses. Then there are two boxes to write in:
"What is the single most important parking or kerbside improvement Newham should make?"
The one thing you'd change.
"Is there anything else you would like the Council to take note…"
This is the place for your view on free permits and a free hour: who benefits, who pays, and what parking money should be spent on.
A sentence or two is enough. Some things worth saying, if they're true for you: whether your household has a car, how you get around, and what you'd lose if there were less money for buses, crossings or school streets.
Please don't copy and paste wording from us or anyone else. Identical answers can be grouped together and counted as one view.
Page 5
About You
These questions are optional, and "Prefer not to say" is always there. They include the Blue Badge question.
The final question asks whether the proposed changes to permits and free parking would have a greater impact on you because of things like disability, caring, low income or relying on a vehicle for work. If any apply, say how.
Done? Tell one neighbour
- Question wording is from Newham Council's Parking and Kerbside Space Feedback Survey, as shown on the council's consultation website (newhamco-create.co.uk) on 30 October 2026. Page order is for residents and visitors.