High Street Conversations: What NCP’s Troubles Tell Us About the Post-COVID High Street
Thu 30 Apr
|Virtual Event
Join us for the next meeting of High Street Conversations


Time & Location
30 Apr 2026, 10:00 – 11:30
Virtual Event
About the Event
NCP has entered administration.
Far from having a solid business model guaranteed to make money, the car parking operator has found itself vulnerable to changing market conditions. Is this a red flag for many regional centres across the UK and Ireland?
Changing worker and shopper habits, huge rates burdens, private equity ownership, and short-term decision-making—many reasons offered for NCP’s failure mirror those of household names on the high street.
For this session of High Street Conversations, we will be joined by the British Parking Association to explore the details behind the fall of NCP and have an open discussion on what this means for the reuse of space and overall parking capacity in town and city centres.
