It is important that all people with disabilities, particularly those that are not able to use public or active transport, can easily access services, educational venues, events and recreational facilities in Wellington. This means we need enough mobility parking spaces in business and entertainment areas and near sports and recreational venues.

There are 129 Wellington City Council on and off-street mobility parking spaces, in addition to the 60 spaces in the central city area. These parking spaces are at Council venues such as the Regional Aquatic Centre, Freyberg pool, Tawa pool plus mobility parking spaces at the car parks for other Wellington City Council venues such as Zealandia and the zoo.

We want to regularly monitor the Council's mobility parking spaces to ensure they are fit for purpose and in the preferred locations. We also want your views on whether there are other locations in Wellington city where access could be improved by adding mobility parking spaces.

The Council has completed a technical review of the central city area on-street mobility parking spaces and conducted a survey of mobility parking space use. A report of our findings from these surveys will be completed in the coming months. The Council will develop a schedule of improvements using the information gathered from the review, feedback from users via drop-in events and the feedback from the online survey. Feedback provided on this site will help us to regularly monitor whether the Council's mobility parking spaces are fit for purpose.

Click through the tabs below to explore the different feedback options to help you provide us with your thoughts.


Are the Council mobility parking spaces usable?

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We want to identify any issues with our current mobility parking spaces, such as placement or design and to identify public destinations within Wellington City with no or not enough Council mobility parking spaces. 

The map shows all the current Council mobility parking spaces in Wellington City.

Please use the coloured pins to indicate on the map:

1. Which of these Council mobility parking spaces meet your needs? 

2. Which of these Council mobility parking spaces need improving?

3. Where you think new Council mobility parking spaces could be added?  Please be specific.

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Tell your story

We want to better understand people's experiences of using our mobility parking spaces. If you would like to share your personal experiences of using the Council's mobility parking spaces in Wellington City, either as the driver or the passenger, you can write it here. 

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disability isn't just defined by a disability card

Posted by Robert Tromop |

As an occasional driver of a disabled person we usually have successful experiences with disabled parking. With rear entry wheelchair access vehicle, the length to open a large tailgate and manoeuvre is sometime an issue but we are adaptable. Disability can be many things: temporary, a general level of poor mobility rate than specific ... outside the defined scope of the disability cards, and a more responsive approach to parking should be taken for those that are elderly or infirm but not…

Mobility parks comment

Posted by Nulland |

I can only walk very short distances and rely on parking within 100m or so of my destination, so accessing mobility parks is very important. More mobility parks close to the end of Courtenay place (near Bats and the Embassy eg. a park at the bottom of Majoribanks st), on Cuba St and perhaps on Victoria St eg front of the Lido would be helpful. I’ve noticed a big difference in my ability to find parking with the closure of the central library, Marion square car park and loss of parks by the…

Mobility parking is invaluable

Posted by Bronwyn |

I am a frequent user of mobility parks in the central city. I use a walker and have limited ability to walk distances so being able to find car parks that minimise the distance I have to walk makes a big difference to whether or not I can access the city. The best improvement that could be made for me is more frequent designated parking spaces so that I can park closer to my destination. I would also like to see more of the disability parking spaces meeting universal design standards to allow…

Unsafe parks

Posted by Van mum |

I drive a van with a mobility hoist to transport my 17 year old daughter who is in a wheelchair. I find many of the wheelchair parks around the Wellington area are unsafe when unloading from the hoist at the back of the van. Often they are in high traffic areas at malls or on streets. Parallel parks do not have enough room to let the hoist down and we always run the risk of having someone park too close behind so we can't open the hoist. Often I end up parking in a normal park in a quiet area…

An occasional mobility park user

Posted by SMK |

I don’t have a mobility card so most of the time I don’t use mobility parks, but when I am transporting my 92 year old mother who uses a walking stick and has a mobility card these parking spots are gold. They are hard to find in the CBD and rarely are the few in and around Lambton Quay/Willis St area near the shops available at all. This means we hardly ever end up with my mother in the CBD, a place she has loved since she first emigrated to Wellington in 1957. Instead we use the malls in…

Access park abuse

Posted by Nicki M |

Often I find that the accessible parks are abused on privately owned land such as supermarket/hotels etc, and when you try to mention to the occupants of the car they don’t care or they get aggressive. Very few places even bother to do anything about the parking abuse even if told, a well known Wellington hotel told me the other week that it was “okay that the two mobility parks at the front of the building were being used by non permit holders as there is another mobility park on site” it is…

Quick Poll

If you are a mobility permit holder, which type of parking space do you most frequently use?

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