Transport and streets

• Council says plenty of parking spaces in Leicester despite NCP closure

  24 March 2026

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council is advising drivers that Leicester has plenty of capacity in its city centre car parks, despite the imminent closure of four NCP car parks.

• New safety bollards to be installed on Market Place

  26 February 2026

  1 minute read

  WORK to further extend the network of automatic bollards that surround Leicester’s central pedestrian area will begin on Market Place next week.

• Parking restrictions on busy roads for gully clearance work

  26 February 2026

  1 minute read

  TEMPORARY parking restrictions will be introduced on some residential streets in Leicester from next week as part of a rolling programme of street cleaning and gully clearance.

• Leicester 10k charity race returns to city streets

  24 February 2026

  1 minute read

  MOTORISTS in Leicester are being warned of possible delays this weekend as one of the region’s biggest charity road runs returns to the city.

• Improvement works planned for footpaths near Abbey Park

  13 February 2026

  1 minute read

  A NEXT phase of work to revamp an underpass leading to Leicester’s Abbey Park is now under way.

• Resurfacing works to take place on neighbourhood roads

  12 February 2026

  1 minute read

  ROAD repairs are being carried out by Leicester City Council from next week on four busy streets.

• New bays for taxis and passenger drop-offs to be trialled

  29 January 2026

  2 minute read

  NEW arrangements for taxi ranks and passenger pick-up and drop-off bays will be piloted in a busy part of Leicester city centre from next month

• Historic river bridge to undergo maintenance work

  16 January 2026

  1 minute read

  MAINTENANCE work to a historic bridge in Leicester’s Waterside area will take place from next week.

• New parking spaces mark completion of £5m improvements across two estates

  12 January 2026

  2 minute read

  NEW parking spaces for residents have been created on a busy city estate.

• Improvement works underway at Orwell Drive

  6 January 2026

  1 minute read

  WORK to improve a busy road in the north-west of the city, and make it safer for walkers, wheelers and cyclists, is now underway.

• Gritters take to city’s streets as wintry weather arrives

  31 December 2025

  2 minute read

  ROAD gritting teams from Leicester City Council are taking to the city’s streets as very cold winter temperatures arrive.

• Leicester set to meet electric bus target across whole network

  22 December 2025

  3 minute read

  LEICESTER is set to meet its target of providing zero emission, all-electric buses across the whole city network, with an additional 60 buses coming on stream from September 2026.