Park and Pride
"It is spacious, well-lit and adorned with beautiful red brickwork, complemented by slinky silver vertical aluminium fins that create a rippling wave effect."
London may have The Gherkin, Cardiff may have it's Stadium, and Edinburgh it's Parliament, but now King's Lynn has it's own modern architectural claim to fame.
For now we are officially home to Britain's Best Car Park.
It beat out strong competition from Liverpool and Edinburgh to take the coveted number one spot in a poll of the UK's best parking locations. The judge, who is an expert in these matters having written two books on roundabouts, said: "When I saw the St James multi-storey car park in King's Lynn it was love at first sight."
I've made a pilgrimage to the new building myself a couple of weeks ago and I must admit it does have a spacious feel. You don't have to take any bumper-scraping sharp corners to navigate it, perhaps because the architects knew that most Norfolk cars are used to long straight country roads and not this new fangled "steering".
So I urge you, visit King's Lynn in 2006! You'll not find an amazing night-life, our culinary, shopping and cultural highlights are nothing to write home about, but at least you'll have somewhere nice to park.
Before it was famous. The car park being built, way back in May.
London may have The Gherkin, Cardiff may have it's Stadium, and Edinburgh it's Parliament, but now King's Lynn has it's own modern architectural claim to fame.
For now we are officially home to Britain's Best Car Park.
It beat out strong competition from Liverpool and Edinburgh to take the coveted number one spot in a poll of the UK's best parking locations. The judge, who is an expert in these matters having written two books on roundabouts, said: "When I saw the St James multi-storey car park in King's Lynn it was love at first sight."
I've made a pilgrimage to the new building myself a couple of weeks ago and I must admit it does have a spacious feel. You don't have to take any bumper-scraping sharp corners to navigate it, perhaps because the architects knew that most Norfolk cars are used to long straight country roads and not this new fangled "steering".
So I urge you, visit King's Lynn in 2006! You'll not find an amazing night-life, our culinary, shopping and cultural highlights are nothing to write home about, but at least you'll have somewhere nice to park.
Before it was famous. The car park being built, way back in May.
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