Hampshire car parks spared as NCP announce 22 sites to close this week

National Car Parks fell into administration last week as the company cited a post-Covid dip in demand as a reason for its financial struggle. Upon being appointed, administrators PwC said they were reviewing all of NCP’s car parks with the option of selling them or closing them down.

This included the Portsmouth & South Station Car Park and two small car parks on Minnitt Road in Gosport. A list of 22 NCP car parks have now been released which will close to customers at 11.59pm on Friday, March 27.

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The Portsmouth and Gosport sites have not been included in the closures are expected to stay open with no other closures announced.

An NCP spokesperson said: “Following an initial assessment of operations, the joint administrators have identified 22 sites that are commercially unviable and will therefore be closed to customers from 11:59pm on March 27.

“Regrettably, due to the closure of these sites, 33 employees will be made redundant on March 31. They will be supported through the statutory redundancy payments process.

“The other 318 car parks remain open and there are no further sites identified for closure at this time.”

The full list of closures can be found below:

• Ashford County Square
• Ashton-un-Lyne Cotton Street
• Banbury Marlborough Road
• Bexley Royal Oak Road
• Birmingham Gough Street
• Bournemouth Hinton Road (already closed)
• Bristol Nelson street
• Bromley Travelodge
• Cardiff Dumfries Place
• Eastbourne Trinity Place
• Exeter Market Street
• Grantham Station 1-3
• Hinckley Britannia Shopping Centre
• Ipswich Portman Road
• Leicester Abbey Street
• Leicester East Street
• Leicester Lee Circle
• Leicester Rutland Centre
• London Kings Cross St Pancras
• London Knightsbridge
• Luton Regent Street

NCP was founded in London in 1931 and is owned by Japanese firm Park24 .

It previously ran a number of other car parks in Portsmouth including the Cascades Shopping Centre multi-storey car park before the shopping centre took back control of it over two years ago.