Swan Centre Car Park

This car park is way too big and takes up too much room for this part of Birmingham. It is never full, and is the answer for a road system completely changing. The road that surrounds the car park has now been built through a no man’s land park area. So the grassland has been downsized considerably. Okay I’ll admit that previously, the grass was overgrown, but money could have been thrown into redeveloping and maintaining this piece of natural land, instead of removing a great piece of it for a car park and road.
Wherever you park, you’ll end up having to walk quite a distance to actually get to the shopping centre (and the Tesco in particular). The car park isn’t really suitable for elderly people either, and my Grandad struggled to get all the way to the entrance of Tesco’s from our car. The car park has also resulted in a larger amount of traffic in the area, meaning that Yardley has become a busier and more frustrating place to drive through. However, I will say that the car park spaces provided are very roomy.

Alongside the new development within the Swan Centre itself, they’ve created a massive carpark to enable shoppers to visit the stores and get all their groceries from the huge Tesco Extra.
The carpark is free (hurrah! No ‘claim back your parking’ voucher system here!) and really clearly signposted with big spaces which were clearly thought out by developers — it shouldn’t be rocket science to make spaces that fit modern cars, but older carparks suffer from bad planning so much. Anyway — no such problem here. Good work again, developers!

I love this carpark,
What i love about this car park is the ability to park cars for free. I always buy so much from Tesco because im a fat boy living in a super models body. I cry my self to sleep every night because of this.
But i digress, some car parks of this size are complete messes to navigate and the traffic system just confuses drivers trying to get in and out.
Im not totally sure whats different about this one but it just seems to flow a lot better. The fact this place is free and right next to a bust shopping centre means you need to get here quick on busier shopping days to secure your spot.