Parking
Last updated: Friday 06 February 2026Car parking charges and number plate recognition
Our car parks are controlled by a system that uses an automatic number plate recognition to record vehicle registrations which is transmitted to the parking pay machines.
Machines are located in the following areas:
Warrington
- outside the Main Entrance (cash and card payments)
- outside the Emergency Department (A&E) entrance (card payments only)
- Burtonwood Wing, outside of the Children's Outpatients entrance (card only payments)
- Croft Wing, corridor inside near the vending machines (card only payments)
- Daresbury Wing - inside the main foyer (card only payments)
Halton
- inside the Outpatients entrance 1 (cash and card payments)
- inside the Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) entrance (cash and card payments)
- Captain Sir Tom Moore Building, inside the main foyer (cash and card payments)
- inside the Brooker Centre Entrance (card only payments)
You will need to input your vehicle registration number into the machine. If using the parking pay machines, you must pay on exit, as the system will hold information on how long you have been parked for. The machines accept cash, card or contactless payments.
You can also pay for parking at both our hospital sites using a mobile payment app. This can be downloaded from app stores and appears as ‘Trust’ on the Google Play Store and 'Trust Parking' on the App Store.
You must make payment by midnight on the day of your visit. Information about the app will be displayed on car parking signage on patient and visitor car parks at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Car parking charges
The first 30 minutes on site are free (i.e. from entering the site to leaving) and means visitors and patients are allowed to park for this initial period without making payment. This is to support visitors dropping off friends or relatives and accompanying them into the hospitals as well as patients who are visiting for quick pre-arranged tests, collecting prescriptions or making other quick visits.
The standard parking charges from 9 September 2025 are:
- first 30 minutes - free (please note new time)
- up to 2 hours - £3.20
- up to 4 hours - £4.20
- up to 6 hours - £5.80
- up to 24 hours - £6.80
Please note: There will be free parking for patients and visitors on Christmas Day (25 December 2025).
All visitors (excluding blue badge holders) must pay for parking but there are a range of concessions outlined elsewhere on this page.
Not paying for parking on exit or by midnight of the day of the visit, if using the app, could mean you are subject to receiving a parking charge notice from our parking company Group Nexus.
Electric vehicle charging cost
The price of electric vehicle charging at Warrington Hospital and Halton Hospital for staff, patients and visitors is 49p per kilowatt (KW). The units are 22kw chargers and there is a maximum stay of four hours.
Further parking information is included in the sections below.
Parking at Warrington Hospital
We have several visitor car parking areas at the hospital which are well sign posted at each entrance. Although the parking is much improved, if you are driving to the site please allow time to find a space as parking areas can still become very busy at key times.
Also, it is worth investigating the public transport and hospital shuttle bus options for getting to the site which may make your journey more convenient.
Locations of our patient and visitor parking areas
At Warrington Hospital there are three main patient and visitor parking areas:
- Car Park 1 is our main car park at the front entrance to the hospital on Lovely Lane (best for visiting the main wards, outpatients and A&E)
- Car Park 2 is a smaller car park opposite the Ophthalmology (eye) Centre near the Kendrick Wing (best for visiting Ophthalmology, MRI and the Cardio-Respiratory Department)
- Car Park 3 is next to Croft Wing at the rear of the site near the Guardian Street entrance (best for visiting the maternity, children's and Croft Wing areas)
All patient car parks are clearly sign posted. Please note that we operate a clear one way system on the site.
EV charger locations
We have 12 charging points on the Warrington site, which can be located in the front car park off Lovely Lane on the back row and also just before SDEC on the one way system entering from Guardian Street.
Car park 1:
Car Park F:
