Your car parking fee supports the forests you love
We manage landscapes for wildlife to thrive, people to enjoy and as a source of sustainable wood. We care for more land and trees than any other organisation in England and we have to raise most of the money needed for this work ourselves, with less than 20% of our income coming from core government funding.
Money raised from our car parks goes towards maintaining our visitor facilities and helping us look after the forests and wildlife.
We really couldn’t do it without your support.
Become a member
Become a national member and enjoy free parking at hundreds of sites. Your membership helps us to continue the vital work we do to care for the forests we all love.
How to pay for parking
The method of payment and control are clearly displayed at each forest and explained in detail on the specific forest's webpage.
If you'd like to know more about parking at a specific forest, please find the forest you wish to visit first, and look at the parking information on the forest page.
Parking will operate by one of these methods:
- Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) with barriers - pay at pay station before exit.
- ANPR barrierless - pay at pay station on arrival.
- Pay and Display - pay at pay station on arrival.
- Pay by Phone - pay via mobile phone on arrival.
Read our parking code of practice.
Become a member
If you enjoy spending time in your local forest, why not save time and money by becoming a member? This gives you free car parking and many more exclusive benefits!
Forestry England parking fines
Privacy notice
If you are paying a parking charge, the personal information that you provide when accessing the Parking Charge payments system (which is operated by CP Plus Ltd, trading as GroupNexus) is used to process your payment or contact you about any parking charge appeal.
Non-payment of a parking charge imposed by us is a breach of Forestry Commission parking terms and conditions, and this is the basis for us and our agents to process your personal information. We may disclose your personal information to the DVLA to obtain vehicle keeper details. We will not disclose your details to additional third parties except to help prevent fraud or if required to do so by law.
The Forestry Commission is registered as a data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998 (Registration No: Z6542658). The information you supply when paying your parking fine will be held securely in the UK or EU for two years after the contravention date.
You have a number of rights in respect to your personal data, including the right to access your personal data by contacting us. These rights can be viewed in our Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions regarding your personal data, please can contact our Data Protection Officer. You may also lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority - the Information Commissioner’s Office: https://ico.org.uk/
Contact us
For all other parking enquiries, please email info@forestryengland.uk.
Parking terms and conditions
1. Liability
All persons entering the Forest and parking areas do so at their own risk and neither Forestry England nor any person acting on its behalf is in any way responsible for any loss, injury or damage sustained by them or for loss or damage to vehicles and their contents left within the car park.
2. Parking charges
A schedule of charges is displayed at the entrances to the car park and at pay machines. Forestry England reserves the right to vary the Parking Charges without notice.
3. Payments (tickets)
Tickets are non-transferable unless stated otherwise.
Tickets are only valid for one entry and one exit at any one time (i.e. you must enter and leave the forest parking areas before the ticket will allow a second entry to be made). The ticket cannot be used in respect of a second vehicle or car park user.
4. Responsibilities of car park users
Persons using the forest parking areas should adhere to the Highway Code and must obey all signage. Persons using the forest parking areas must obey directions from any signage and Forestry England personal. You must ensure that your vehicle is parked in an appropriate manner at all times.
5. Prohibited activities
You are not permitted to tow any vehicle into the forest parking areas. No work on or cleaning of, vehicles is permitted in the forest parking areas. No activity in connection with the selling, hiring or other disposal of vehicles is permitted in the forest parking areas. No car boot sales or selling of any type is to take place.
6. Abandoned vehicles
Any vehicle left in the forest parking areas for more than 5 days, which prior notification has been given to the Forestry England, may be considered abandoned.
Forestry England reserved the right to dispose of any vehicle it reasonably believes to have been abandoned.
Before disposing of abandoned vehicles Forestry England or it approved agent will make reasonable enquiries to identify and contact the registered keeper of the vehicle.