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Visitor Car parking

A Pay & Display system operates on the Keele campus and the Hartshill and Hospital campuses. Parking is not permitted on any campus roads at any time.

Keele campus: 8.30am - 5pm Mondays to Fridays.  Parking is free during evenings,  weekends and bank holidays.

Pay & Display car parks - Students' Union, Medical School, Sports Centre and Horwood Hall (‘F’). Follow the yellow signs. (Link to campus parking map)

If you have been issued with a 'scratch-card' permit you can park anywhere on campus with the exception of  the Science Park or any campus roads.

Hartshill and Hospital campuses: please use the Pay & Display machines in car parks. Times shown on notices. See more details on Hospital Parking.

Student Parking

Students resident on campus are not permitted to bring a car unless they are disabled or are studying certain specified courses which require attendance on placements off campus (medicine, nursing)

Students resident off campus are able to purchase a parking permit which enables parking on student parking areas (link to campus parking map) Permits can be obtained on application from the Chancellor’s Reception desk at a cost of £50 per annum, renewable annually.

Staff Parking

Staff may apply for a parking permit which enables parking on specified staff car parks. A flexible incentivised car sharing scheme is due to be implemented in the near future.  Further information is available from the Security office in the Darwin Building.

Permits are obtainable on application from the Chancellor’s Reception desk and are payable by a deduction from salary.