BBC Radio 2 In The Park Preston car parking and travel options

BBC presenter Richie Anderson in Moor Park to announce the festival Pic: BBC

Parking information has been confirmed for BBC Radio 2 In The Park with a number of city centre, university and Fulwood car parks being made available for the event in Moor Park.

Parking all has to be booked via the ‘Parkthecarhere’ website which has options for Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the three-day festival.

Prices are high for parking, as organisers want to encourage the use of public transport to attend the festival.

Coupled to this a ‘resident-only parking zone’ is being put in place in a swathe of streets surrounding Moor Park to stop parking close to the event.

The University of Central Lancashire is giving over four of its car parks during the weekend to be used for the festival.

The map below shows all the car parks which will be operating a pre-book option for the Radio 2 In The Park festival and their location to the site.

A map showing the car parks in use for the Radio 2 In The Park event

Anyone with a blue-badge and disabled access will be able to park at Preston North End.

Here’s the parking options and where there’s still space left:

Friday 6 September – Radio 2 In The Park pre-party

This smaller, DJ-only event, has parking at Deepdale Stadium for £15 and spaces are still available.

Saturday 7 September

UCLan’s Fylde, Victoria and Harrington car parks all have availability and are a 25-30 minute walk to Moor Park. Prices are between £10-£15.

Preston College car park and Avenham multi-storey car park both have spaces, and are £12.50 and £10 respectively. They are both a 30 minute walk to Moor Park.

UCLan Vernon, Moor Park High School, Penny Street and Trinity car parks are all sold out.

Preston Bus Station and Queen Street are park on the day options.

Sunday 8 September

UCLan Fylde, Victoria and Harrington all have spaces left.

Preston College and Avenham multi-storey have spaces.

UCLan Vernon, Moor Park High School, Penny Street and Trinity are sold out.

Preston Bus Station and Queen Street are park on the day options.

All car park booking is via the Parkthecarhere website.

Drop-off points and shuttle buses

A drop-off and collection point will be operating at Sainsbury’s Deepdale for anyone being dropped off by friends and family over the weekend.

Those not wanting to drive are encouraged to pre-book private hire taxis with a designated drop-off and collection point for taxi operators (excluding Uber) running at Deepdale Stadium.

A shuttle bus, operated by Big Green Coach, is offering a day-return coach service from Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Burnley, Chorley, Clitheroe, Lancaster, Leyland, Liverpool, Lytham, Manchester, Morecambe, Southport and Wigan to the Radio 2 site and back. Details of the day return coaches and prices are on the Big Green Coach website.

They are also running a city centre shuttle bus from the Radio 2 site to Preston Bus Station for £10 return per person. The buses will run from 10am to 2pm and then from 8.30pm to 11.30pm for the return leg.

All shuttle buses arrive around the side of Deepdale Stadium, by the Minerva Health Centre, and it is a short walk to Moor Park from there.

All local bus services, such as the 19 and the 6 which serve Deepdale Road and the 40 which serves Garstang Road are expected to run as usual and have stops near the festival site.

Avanti West Coast are putting a ‘full travel plan’ in place from Preston Railway Station.

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