Headington will be the next car park to go cashless following successful trials at other Oxford City Council car parks over the last year.
The site, which offers 116 vehicle parking spaces, is located on Old High Street. It will cease to take cash payments from 30 October.
Once the facility to accept cash is removed, payment at the car park’s machines can be made using debit or credit cards, through the pay-by-phone provider RingGo, or via Hozah, the automatic payment provider.
The Council approved the move to going cashless for all its services in February 2021. Since then, work has been ongoing to eradicate cash payments across Council services. The change to a cashless system across all of its car parks would see an annual saving for the Council of around £12,000.
Comment
“The City Council has been successfully changing its car parks to cashless operation for over a year. All of those in the city centre are now cashless and we have started to change those that are in our district centres to cashless operation. Most users already pay for parking by card at the pay machine, through our pay--phone provider RingGo, or through Hozah the automatic payment provider. It makes good economic sense then as a way for the Council to reduce its administrative costs whilst not causing inconvenience to users.”
Councillor Louise Upton, Cabinet Member for Planning and Healthier Communities
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