Find out about changes to our services and Christmas opening times on our Festive information page. To find out when your bin will be collected over the festive period, visit Changes to County Durham bin collections at Christmas.

Due to maintenance, the following systems will be unavailable from 11.45am on Tuesday 24 December until 8.00am on Thursday 2 January: our online Council Tax, business rates and housing benefit services, and our welfare assistance form. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Parking - reports and accounts

Are part of our role in parking, we must produce documents and reports to show what we have done.

We provide reports and accounts covering the last six years on our website.

Annual report

We are required to produce an annual report detailing our enforcement activities over the previous financial year.

Parking policy

Parking Policy 2016 - 2019 (PDF, 9 MB)

PATROL

Parking and Traffic Regulations Outside of London (PATROL) provide information on parking and bus lane enforcement on behalf of councils in England (outside London) and Wales.

We are a member of the PATROL Adjudication Joint Committee. The committee publishes an annual statement of accounts, which is subject to external audit, and you can find these on the PATROL website.

Contact Parking Services

Email parkingservices@durham.gov.uk
Telephone 03000 263 985