Match Day Parking Zone to be introduced around Everton FC’s new stadium

Liverpool City Council will introduce a ‘Football Match Parking Zone’ around Everton Football Club’s new stadium, at Bramley-Moore Dock.

A raft of new parking measures are to be implemented surrounding the 52,888 seater stadium, similar to what is already in place around Goodison Park and Anfield.

More than 4,000 residents and 3,000 businesses are now being invited to apply for the relevant parking permits ahead of the zone going live under an Experimental Traffic Road Order (ETRO) to coincide with the historic first test game at the £500m venue.

The ETRO will run for up to 18 months and during that period will then be reviewed by the Council Highways and Transportation team.

Residents will be able to apply for a permit for each vehicle registered at their address, plus one visitor permit, for which there will be no fee. Businesses will be charged an annual fee of £50 per vehicle, up to a maximum of 10.

The focus of the proposed parking zone covers the area within a 30-minute walk of Everton Stadium, which is serviced by the city’s historic “Dock Road”, and will encompass the surrounding Ten Streets district, into the city centre and up to Great Homer Street in Everton.

The new parking zone requirements, which were subject to a public consultation in late 2022, includes:

• New resident parking areas
• New taxi ranks
• New match day bus stands
• New parking restrictions
• New hours of operation for existing parking zones for the Great Homer Street area
• New hours of operation for existing parking zones for the Ten Streets and Love Lane areas
• New industrial parking zone south of Boundary Street
• New industrial parking zone north of Boundary Street
• The overall aim of the new Parking Zone is to reduce congestion, improve air quality and safety to and from the stadium. The proposals have also been designed to complement the planned modernisation of parking across the city centre.

The Council’s Highways and Transportation team has already begun the process of installing new signage ahead of Everton’s first “test match” at the waterfront stadium, situated within Liverpool Waters, which will be held on Monday, 17 February.

Scheduled to open for the 2025/26 season, Everton’s new home has already been picked as a venue for the UEFA European Championships in 2028 and will also be capable of hosting major non-footballing events.

Liverpool City Council has invested more than £20m in the highways infrastructure around Bramley-Moore Dock, including a permanent segregated cycle lane running from the city centre up to Liverpool’s northern border at Bootle in Sefton, which passes right in front of the new stadium.

The Council is also working with Sefton Council and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority on a new town bid which could see more than 10,000 new homes created from the stadium through to Bootle and Walton.

• The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is also working with Merseyrail, Network Rail and Everton FC on the development of a new crowd management zone and an additional entrance at Sandhills station. The aim is to primarily support fans and event goers accessing public transport on their way to and from the new stadium.

Councillor Dan Barrington, Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport and Connectivity, said: 

“Everton Stadium is going to be transformational especially for the surrounding Ten Streets district and the wider Kirkdale community.

“As well as the economic benefit, the vast volume of people the stadium will attract – and how they arrive and depart – needs to be carefully managed.

“The North Docks area has never had to cope with such large numbers of people in such concentrated time periods, but fortunately the city has the experience and knowledge thanks to Goodison Park and Anfield. By creating this new match day parking zone, we’ll be looking to adopt and incorporate those controls which so effectively move tens of thousands on a weekly basis.

“Bramley-Moore Dock is also a unique location given its very close proximity to the city centre and the fact the surrounding transport infrastructure is well developed. There’s more to be done but all the partners are talking to make those improvements.

“We’ll also be looking to encourage as many active travel options as possible for those attending the games or other events there, which is a win-win for everyone in terms of managing congestion and air quality and promoting healthy habits.

“There’s lots of residents and businesses, as well as Everton fans, who will be affected by this new zone and thanks to their feedback we’ve been able to formulate a plan which accommodates their needs.”