Why does SoloBay show so few motorcycle bays in Southwark?

Because we only list what we can stand behind. Southwark does operate motorcycle bays, but we do not yet hold a council published dataset for the borough and volunteer mapping is thin, so we show 12 bays and 35 car parks rather than guessing at a total.

Where can I park a motorcycle near London Bridge?

Car parks are the reliable option while our on street coverage for Southwark is thin. We hold 35 car parks across the borough that take bikes.

Is motorcycle parking free in Southwark?

Some of it. Of the car parks we hold, 10 are recorded as free. For on street bays, read the plate beside the bay, because we do not hold council published prices for Southwark.

Motorcycle parking in Southwark

Southwark is the borough where our on street coverage is thinnest, and it is better to say so than to pretend otherwise. We hold only 12 motorcycle bays mapped across the borough, against 35 car parks that take bikes, of which 10 are recorded as free. For Southwark the car parks are currently the more useful half of our data.

What we have mapped

On our map	Count
Motorcycle bays	12
Marked spaces in those bays	89
Car parks that also take bikes	35
Of those car parks, free	10

Not every bay has a published capacity, so the number of marked spaces is lower than the number of bays rather than higher. It counts only the bays where a capacity is recorded.

Why the bay count is low

It is a mapping gap, not an absence of parking. Southwark does operate motorcycle bays around London Bridge, Borough, Bermondsey, Peckham and Camberwell. What we do not yet have is a published dataset from the council or enough volunteer mapping in OpenStreetMap to list them reliably, so rather than invent a number we show what we can stand behind. We have asked several London councils for their motorcycle parking data directly under the Freedom of Information Act, and Southwark is on that list.

In the meantime the 35 car parks are the dependable option, and the neighbouring borough pages below are worth a look if you are near a boundary.

How do you pay?

Through the provider named on the plate beside the bay, which across most of London means RingGo. Nothing goes on the bike, because wardens check by number plate. SoloBay shows the location number for each bay and opens the payment app with it already filled in.

When do you have to pay?

During the controlled hours printed on the plate. They change from street to street, so read the plate rather than assuming the borough is the same throughout. Do not stay longer than the maximum stay on the sign.

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Next door: Lambeth, City of London and Tower Hamlets.

More: motorcycle parking in London, what each borough charges, is it free?, what SOLO M/C ONLY means.

Bay locations for Southwark come from OpenStreetMap, which is mapped by volunteers rather than published by the council, so treat counts as a guide and the sign at the bay as the authority. Where we hold council data, as in Westminster and Camden, we say so. Checked October 2026.