Hawkwood Road Main car park
Car park in Bournemouth, BH5 1BY. Open 24 hours a day. Parking app code is 59047. It has 389 standard spaces, 16 disabled spaces and one motorbike space.
www.bcpcouncil.gov.ukI don’t have real-time access to pull the very latest updates right now, but here’s what’s publicly documented about Hawkwood Road Main Car Park and nearby redevelopment news.
Core takeaway
- The Hawkwood Road area in Boscombe has been the subject of redevelopment plans that include upgrading the main car park, creating new public spaces, and adding mixed-use development (residential flats, medical centre, community facilities). This aligns with Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council’s planning activity for the site, though specific decisions depend on current planning committee progress and potential legal agreements.
- A planning committee document describes a proposal for 68 new flats, a medical centre, a new pedestrian link, Hawkwood Gardens (public park) and a community pavilion/centre on the Hawkwood Road site, with Site B identified as the main public car park. The document notes approval subject to conditions and legal agreements and references highway design revisions and public consultation processes. This is the clearest official description of the intended redevelopment and its components.[1]
- The council’s own car park page identifies Hawkwood Road Main Car Park as a 389-space, 24/7 public car park with 16 disabled spaces and 1 motorcycle space (location in Boscombe, BH5 1BY). This provides the current uses and capacity of the site as a parking facility, separate from the planned redevelopment.[2]
- Additional local listings describe the car park’s location and basic usage as a public car park near central Boscombe, reaffirming the site’s identity as a long-established parking facility prior to any redevelopment.[3]
What’s relevant for latest news
- There have been planning documents and tender notices related to Hawkwood Road redevelopment that indicate a staged project with mixed-use goals and a focus on public realm improvements (pocket park, pedestrian link, community facilities) alongside parking considerations. Tender listings describe construction elements for the main Hawkwood Road car park site, including 68 flats and a medical centre, limited to a timeline around 2025–2026, which suggests ongoing progress or nearing construction phases depending on procurement outcomes.[5]
- Local parking information remains current in terms of capacity and opening hours, but it does not reflect the redevelopment’s final completion status; it confirms 389 spaces and 24/7 access, which would be affected by any construction-related temporary restrictions during works.[2][3]
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