Bradford council will reduce the number of free-hours parking spaces in Ilkley, Labour have confirmed.
The changes will take effect on Monday 19 January in the face of uproar from residents and businesses in Ilkley.
Most of the the free one hour parking will be removed, residential and commercial streets will offer a mixture of short, medium and long stay between 8am and 8pm, seven days a week including bank holidays, priced at £1 per hour with maximum stay periods applying to blue badge holders.
When the changes were first proposed in June last year more than 4,000 Ilkley residents objected to the proposals, with 1,558 residents signing Bradford Council's epetition and 2,753 residents signing the local paper petition.
Full details of the Order, including a complete list of affected streets and tariff codes, will be available from January 16, 2026 on the council's website and at Customer Services Reception in City Hall, and at Ilkley Library.
Responding to news of this, Ilkley and Addingham Conservatives Andrew Loy and Richard Downey said: “We have been clear that the council should scrap the parking charge hike and go back to the drawing board and we will continue to campaign for this.”
Responding to the plan, local MP Robbie Moore said:
"Yet again, Ilkley is being used as a cash-cow for Bradford Council.
Labour-run Bradford Council have today confirmed that as from the 19th January, Ilkley's one hour free on-street parking will disappear and parking charges will apply from 8am to 8pm, every day, including bank holidays - with the exception of 160 spaces on New Brook Street, Kings Road and Cowpasture Road.
This is an absolutely outrageous decision which is bad for residents, visitors, local independent businesses and local economic growth.
Bradford Council justify their decision by stating the changes “introduce a simplified tariff structure which will be easier for visitors to understand and will improve the customer experience”. That is simply not right.
Bradford Council should scrap these plans immediately, and whilst the are at it scrap parking charges all together across the whole town.
Our hospitality sector, our retailers and our many small independent businesses are being hammered by tax increases brought in by this Labour government and now, yet again, they are being hammered by our Labour controlled Council.”
