The new layout for Storrington Mill Lane car park

This is a follow-up to the HDC press release we published on 1st May 2022.

The District Council’s new layout for the Storrington Mill Lane car park was given out at the Storrington & Sullington Annual Parish Meeting on Wednesday 4 May 2022.

Work on the car park begins Monday 9 May 2022.

If you have any comments or questions about the new design, please address them to:
carparkteam@horsham.gov.uk (tel. 01403 215379)

Some facts about the new design (see layout below):

the total number of parking bays will be reduced by 6 from 132 to 126
Mill Lane south of the car park entrance will be separated from the car park by a wall and will only accommodate parallel parking, not perpendicular parking as before: this means a further reduction in parking spaces, although these are not within the HDC car park.
the central section of the car park is laid out with banks of bays north/south instead of east/west with four corridors between them, three 2-way corridors and one 1-way corridor
there is no longer a continuous one-way route through the car park: it will contain two cul-de-sacs and a mixture of 2-way and 1-way traffic flows
the raised brick flower beds and trees in the centre of the car park (see photo above) will be removed
for pedestrian safety, there will be a marked pedestrian footway between Mill Square and the exit steps between Dems House and Havant House
we have been told the majority of parking bays (113 out of 126) will be 2.4metres wide: that’s the same as now
there will be 7 wider bays: 2.7meters wide
the 6 blue badge bays will each have an accessible aisle to one side
5 bays will have ducting provided to enable electric vehicle charging points to be installed (they will be installed later as part of a county-wide rollout)

New car park design released 4 May 2022

The current car park design (for comparison)

N.B. There are 10 HDC car park bays missing from this drawing: 9 bays accessible from the south end of Mill Lane and 1 bay at the top of the steps to the bus circle. You can experience the layout yourself using this Google Street View link.