Maidenhead & Windsor

Maidenhead’s new Hines Meadow multi-storey car park is set for a boost in the number of users, with the news that the town’s temporary park and ride facility will close on Saturday June 9.

The Stafferton Way park and ride opened in 2005 to provide replacement parking for Maidenhead workers, shoppers and visitors while the Sainsbury’s development was underway. The project meant the closure of the old Tyrells car park and the temporary suspension of Hines Meadow to allow the building work to go ahead.

Now the completely redesigned and enlarged Hines Meadow has spaces for 1,476 cars (including 672 short stay spaces on levels 3, 4 and 5) and is ready for ‘business as usual’ with the welcome return of parkers who have been using Stafferton Way during the building work.

The Maidenhead park and ride was always intended as a stop-gap measure to ensure Maidenhead had a good supply of alternative parking until the new Sainsbury’s store opened and the multi-storey was reinstated.

Hines Meadow has been fully open for the past two months and, with the agreement of Sainsbury’s who funded the park and ride, the council decided to keep Stafferton Way operational for a couple of months. This was to allow time for the store to settle into the town centre and to give people the opportunity to get used to the new car parking arrangements.

Fewer people are now using the park and ride and there is plenty of space in Hines Meadow to accommodate Maidenhead town centre parkers for both short and long stays.

Funded by Sainsbury’s, the park and ride has around 600 spaces and the regular shuttle ‘veggie bus’ runs every 15 minutes to and from the town centre every day (except Sundays and bank holidays).

Prominent signage will be displayed at Stafferton Way and leaflets will be distributed to let users know about the closure and the alternative parking available.

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead