Parking permit for employees

Is your business located in an area with paid parking? Apply for an employee parking permit for your employees or for yourself.  You can also apply when you are the owner of a company or an independent contractor (ZZP).

You will receive a parking permit for a car park or for a particular area in the city close to your business.

Conditions

• Your company or organisation(or a branch) is located in zone A, zone B, zone C1 or zone C2. Please check in which parking area your company is located or check the list of street names.
• The municipality of Leiden will check the address at which your company is registered at the Chamber of Commerce. You will receive the employees parking permit for parking in a car park or particular area. Have you received an employee parking permit?  Then you will be informed in which car park or area you may park.
• The vehicle of your employee or yourself is not a camper or equipped for these purposes.

Validity employee permits

• Zone A Area permit: parking is permitted in the entire zone A (Monday up to and including Friday from 9.00 to 21.00 hours)
• Zone A Site permit: parking is permitted at the Langegracht site, Morssingel site and the Huigpark (Monday up to and including Friday from 9.00 to 21.00 hours)
• Zone B Area permit: parking is permitted in the employee area where your company is located (Monday up to and including Friday from 9.00 to 19.30 hours)
• Zone C Area permit: parking is permitted in the employee area where your company is located (Monday up to and including Friday from 9.00 to 19.30 hours). Please note: zone C is divided into zone C1 to C4. You may only park in your own parking permit zone. 
• You are not allowed to park at an auto date parking spot or at a red-cap machine.

Do you want to know where your employee parking permit is valid. Check the map with employee areas in which your employee permit is valid.

Please note: at the beginning of 2025 the end time in zone B1 (areas III to V, and VII) will shift to 9 p.m. Your parking permit is then valid till 9 p.m. You can apply for more employee parking permits form January 2025. Read more at www.leiden.nl/zoneBverandert.

Application

Apply online for the employee parking permits. You will need:

• E-Recognition (level 2+)
• The licence plate number of your employee
• Valid proof which states how many employees you have. Usually you will find this on your excerpt of the trade register of the Chamber of Commerce. Enclose an excerpt less than 3 months old. When the number of employees is not registered in your excerpt you have to enclose your annual account or an audit report in which the number of employees is recorded. 

The municipality will assess your application. You will receive an email with the decision.  When you get the permit, you pay online. Be sure that the correct licence plate number is known to us. After payment the employee parking permit will be effective right away.

You will receive a letter and an email when your employee parking permit expires. You can renew the employee parking permit online and pass on changes, for instance another licence plate number. It is also possible for several part-time employees to make use of the employee parking permit. Please also communicate when you have fewer employees.

You will not receive a paper-based permit, but you fill in the licence plate number of the car you use the permit for. Traffic wardens scan the licence plate number and in that way know that your employee has a parking permit.

It is possible that there are waiting lists for employee parking permits.

To the counter

Would you prefer to do this in person? Then you should make a counter appointment.

You can also call to make an appointment: 14 071

Bring the following documents with you

• your proof of identity
• a power of attorney (if you are not the company owner). The power of attorney is a letter in which the company owner gives you permission to apply for the employee parking permit. The letter must include a date and the owner’s signature.
• an extract of your Chamber of Commerce registration. The extract may be a maximum of 3 months old.
• proof of the number of employees in your company if this is not specified in your Chamber of Commerce registration. Such as your annual account or an audit report.

Costs

• Zone A: € 125 per quarter
• Zone B: € 175 per calendar year
• Zone C: € 175 per calendar year
• Changing parking permit online: for free
• Changing parking permit at the counter: € 7,84

You pay from the 1st day of the month in which you are issued the permit. Do you want to cancel the employee parking permit? Then your money will be refunded for every remaining full month of the current permit period.