Car

Parking

Set in the heart of Newcastle's bustling Central Business District, our City Campus is perfectly positioned to take advantage of public transport, and sustainable travel options. While there is no general parking on site at our Newcastle City Campus, there is paid parking on the surrounding streets. The public Wright Lane carpark behind Q Building offers 4 hours paid parking.

Civic West carpark is short walk from the City Campus, and offers paid daily parking. If you are a staff member or student, you can access discounted parking ($2.50 per hour or $10.00 per day) through a license agreement with Hunter Parking and Storage. You will need your student/staff ID to swipe at entry into the carpark for the discount to apply.

User Guide - How to park at Civic West Civic West Car park access request form

Rideshare

Ridesharing, or carpooling, is the sharing of cars between drivers and passengers to reduce the number of cars on the road and an excellent option for travelling to campus.

The University of Newcastle has partnered with Liftango*, an exclusive ridesharing app, to make your trip to and from City Campus as hassle-free as possible. Users benefit from free parking in 20 exclusive spaces located behind The Conservatorium at Newcastle City Campus. Plus, Liftango has partnered with Pachama to offset the emissions of every trip made by drivers and passengers using their carpool technology.

Rideshare (Liftango)

_{* The Liftango app is available for University of Newcastle staff and students only.}

Loading Zones

To assist with quick loading and accessibility to central commercial and operational areas, we have a very small amount of loading zones to service the City Campus buildings. Due to the high demand of the loading zones in the City, they are restricted to a time-frame of 30 minutes to allow the bay to be free for other users or emergency vehicles when required.

Loading Zones retain their status all hours, 7 days a week. Vehicles who park their cars in a loading zones for longer periods than the zone designates may risk a fine.

Electric Vehicle Charging

The University has invested in sustainable transport by installing electric vehicle charging stations across Callaghan Campus and we are committed to expanding our charge station capacity at our other campus locations where we are able to do so. For Newcastle City charging locations, check out  Plugshare.

Our charging infrastructure strategy is aimed at helping our community meet the challenges of transitioning to electric vehicles. As an electric vehicle-friendly University, our community can be confident the infrastructure is in place to support electric vehicles’ growing popularity and availability.

Aligned to our sustainability commitment, the electricity used to charge vehicles on campus is provided by 100% renewable sources thanks to our sector leading electricity supply agreement with Red Energy.

Electric vehicle charge station operating instructions More info on EVs