Apply for a business parking permit

About 5 days – when you’ve completed the online application including payment, we’ll immediately email your interim parking permit to use until you receive the official permit, usually within 5 working days.

Fees vary and concessions apply for vehicles in the green vehicle guide.

Project Status: When you need to do this

Your business may be eligible for a business parking permit if it requires a vehicle for carrying goods or equipment, does not have any onsite car spaces and cannot reasonably modify the premises to provide onsite parking.

Business permits are not provided for vehicles primarily used for employee travel, attending business appointments, or commuting to a place of employment or business.

What you need to do

Check your eligibility

You must have an eligible vehicle. The vehicle must:
- be registered in the name of a business, or a principal of the business
- be registered for business use
- be used for the purposes of carrying goods and equipment
- not be a truck or bus exceeding 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle mass
Apply for a permit
Apply online

Before you start

What you need to provide

Current vehicle registration papers showing:

business name
business address
vehicle details.

Business registration certificate.
One of the following:

current commercial lease
business utility bill (for example, electricity, gas, phone).

Description of the goods or equipment the vehicle carries.

Parking permit area map

View the parking permit area map to see where your permit will allow you to park.

How your fees are calculated

The standard permit fee applies to vehicles not in the federal government’s green vehicle guide.
- First permit (one permit only): $86

Visit the Green Vehicle Guide website to determine your vehicle’s green vehicle rating.

Vehicle emissions	First permit (one permit only)
111.9 or less emissions (tailpipe CO2 g/km comb)	$45
112–186.5 emissions (tailpipe CO2 g/km comb)	$65
186.6–261.1 emissions (tailpipe CO2 g/km comb)	$86
261.2 or more emissions (tailpipe CO2 g/km comb)	$172

Number of permits available

- If your business has no on-site parking, you may be eligible to apply for one business permit for street parking.
- If your business has on-site parking you are not eligible for a permit.
- All eligible business properties will be limited to one business parking permit at a single address corresponding to a strata lot.
- If the strata-titled building has on-site parking space, then a business parking permit will not be issued to any lot or address within the building.
Not all properties are eligible to participate in the parking scheme. The main restrictions apply to multi-unit developments:
- approved after 8 May 1996 in the former South Sydney Council area
- approved after 1 May 2000 in the former Sydney City Council area.

After you finish

Once your form and payment are received, your application will be processed and any permit(s) for which you are eligible will be posted to you within 5 working days.

Making changes or applying for a temporary parking permit

Depending on your circumstances, changes can be made to your permit or temporary permit.

Parking permits can't be swapped between vehicles because the permit displays your car registration. Your permit must be permanently affixed to the lower passenger side of the windscreen of the vehicle for which it has been issued. If you bring home different vehicles from your workplace each night, or if you have borrowed a vehicle that’s registered in someone else’s name, you are not eligible for a permit. If you wish to permanently transfer a permit from one vehicle to another, contact us.
If your vehicle is registered interstate and you’re moving to the City of Sydney local area, we’ll issue you with a temporary resident parking permit valid for 3 months. You’ll need to provide us with a copy of the car’s original registration certificate. When you’ve changed your registration and licence to NSW (you must do so within 3 months), we’ll change your temporary parking permit to a permanent one.

It is compulsory to change your car registration to NSW, but it is not compulsory to change your licence to NSW. If you do not wish to change your driver licence to NSW, you will need to provide us with 2 types of identification.

If the vehicle registered interstate is a company car, then a yearly permit may be issued if your application includes a letter (on company letterhead) that’s signed by an appropriate company officer. It should state that you normally use the vehicle and that it is registered interstate in the company name.