An HDB parking fine in 2026 starts at $35 for a motorcycle and runs up to $300, with the common car offence sitting at $70. The amount depends on what you did and what you drive, not on which block you parked at. HDB enforces its own car parks under the Parking Places Rules, so the fine, the notice, and the appeal route are all separate from a Traffic Police summons or a URA slip. The good news: most HDB notices are for small coupon or short-stay slips, there is a 15-minute grace period at electronic car parks, and a genuine first-time mistake is often waived if you appeal with the right reason. Here is what every common offence costs now and how to deal with the notice without it snowballing.
HDB runs most of the car parks at the foot of public-housing blocks, and it enforces them under its own Parking Places Rules rather than the Road Traffic Act. That distinction matters. An HDB fine is a composition sum for a parking-place offence, not a traffic offence, so it never adds demerit points to your licence and it does not touch your driving record. Pay it or appeal it and the matter ends there.
When an HDB enforcement officer flags your vehicle, they issue a Notice of Parking Offence (often just called the parking notice). It carries a notice number, the offence, the composition amount, and a date to settle by. The same vehicle can pick up a URA notice in a URA-managed lot or a Traffic Police summons on a public road, and the costs and appeal routes differ for each, which we break down in our wider guide to parking fines in Singapore.
Roughly 8 in 10 residents live in HDB flats, so the HDB car park is where most Singapore drivers will ever meet a parking notice. Knowing the exact figure on the slip, and whether you have grounds to appeal, is worth more than guessing.
The composition amounts below were last revised on 1 July 2019 and remain current as of June 2026. The figures scale by vehicle class: motorcycle, motor car (and similar light vehicles), and heavy vehicle. The most common slip, parking outside a marked lot or without valid payment, is the $35 / $70 / $100 tier.
Coupon and short-stay overshoots are charged on a sliding scale by how long you over-parked, which is why a forgotten coupon is usually a far smaller hit than parking in the wrong place entirely.
| Offence | Motorcycle | Motor car | Heavy vehicle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parking other than in a marked lot / no valid payment | $35 | $70 | $100 |
| Payment evasion at an electronic (EPS) car park | $35 | $70 | $100 |
| Coupon / digital under-payment, half-hour or less over | $4 | $8 | $16 |
| Coupon / digital under-payment, over half-hour to one hour | n/a | $12 | $24 |
| Coupon / digital under-payment, over one hour | n/a | $24 | $48 |
| Parking in a lot not designated for that vehicle | $35 | $70 to $200 | $100 to $200 |
| Displaying an altered or erased parking authorisation | $300 | $300 | $300 |
| Repairing a vehicle in the car park | $80 | $80 | $80 |
At HDB (and URA) car parks fitted with the Electronic Parking System, you are not charged a parking fee if you enter and exit within 15 minutes. That window has been 15 minutes since 1 September 2022, trimmed back from the temporary 20-minute pandemic allowance and longer than the pre-2020 10-minute rule.
The grace period is meant for genuine pick-ups, drop-offs and looking for a lot, not for ducking out before payment. It does not apply to coupon car parks, where you must display valid paper or digital parking the moment you leave the vehicle. If you genuinely left within the grace window and still received a notice, that is a clean appeal: state the entry and exit times and let HDB check the gantry log.
Worth knowing the related rule on the other side: most EPS car parks bill per-minute after the first hour, so a short overshoot rarely costs much, while an unpaid coupon slot is what triggers an actual offence.
You do not have to wait for a physical slip. HDB lets you look up outstanding parking fines online by vehicle number, notice number, or via your Singpass on the My HDBPage portal, then pay on the spot by card or PayNow. Settle by the date on the notice; leaving it unpaid risks the case being escalated and, for ignored notices, a court summons where the cost climbs well past the original composition sum.
If you also run a car loan or are weighing whether to keep driving at all, parking slips are one of the small recurring costs people forget; our car cost calculator folds parking, fuel, insurance and road tax into a single monthly figure so you can see the true running cost.
If the notice was issued in error, or there is a real mitigating reason, you can submit an appeal through HDB's online Appeal Against Parking Offence e-service. Do it promptly, generally within about 14 days of the notice, and keep evidence: photos of the lot markings, your valid coupon or app screenshot, a medical or breakdown record, or the EPS entry/exit times for a grace-period claim.
HDB decides each appeal on its merits. A first, genuine slip with a credible reason is often waived or reduced; a repeat offence or a weak excuse usually is not. Submitting an appeal does not pause the payment deadline unless HDB tells you otherwise, so watch the date. If your appeal is rejected and you still disagree, you can ask for a further review or, in the last resort, contest it in court.
Grounds that tend to succeed are factual ones you can prove, not pleas. The strongest case is showing the charge should not exist at all.
People mix these up because the same wrong move can be enforced by different bodies depending on where you parked. An HDB or URA car-park offence is a composition fine with no demerit points. Park illegally on a public road and it becomes a Traffic Police or LTA matter, which can carry demerit points and a steeper fine.
If your slip came from a road, a yellow box, or a no-stopping zone rather than an HDB lot, the rules in our guide to LTA, URA, HDB and TP fines apply instead. And if you keep getting caught in pay-per-use lots, monthly HDB season parking often works out cheaper than a string of hourly charges plus the occasional fine.
| Issuer | Where | Typical car fine | Demerit points? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HDB | HDB car parks at flats | $70 (illegal parking) | No |
| URA | URA public car parks | $70 (illegal parking) | No |
| Traffic Police | Public roads, no-stopping zones | From $70 plus possible points | Sometimes |
| LTA | Roads, lots LTA manages | Varies by offence | Sometimes |
Most HDB notices are avoidable. The two big culprits are forgetting to display valid parking and parking outside a marked lot when one is full. If you park in the same estate daily, season parking removes the daily-payment risk entirely; if you only park occasionally, the parking.sg app charges per minute so you never over-pay a coupon or forget to top up.
When all the resident lots are taken, do not invent a lot along the kerb or in a reserved bay, that is the fast route to a $70 to $200 slip. For wallet-friendly alternatives near the places you actually go, our list of car parks with free parking is a useful backup.
It depends on the offence and vehicle. The common illegal-parking or payment-evasion fine is $35 for a motorcycle, $70 for a car, and $100 for a heavy vehicle. Coupon over-stays run from $4 to $48, and label tampering is $300.
No. HDB parking offences fall under the Parking Places Rules, not the Road Traffic Act, so they carry a composition fine only and never add demerit points or affect your driving licence record.
Submit an appeal through HDB's online Appeal Against Parking Offence e-service, generally within about 14 days, with evidence such as your valid coupon, app timestamp, or the EPS entry and exit times. A genuine first-time mistake is often waived.
Yes. At HDB car parks with the Electronic Parking System you are not charged if you exit within 15 minutes, a window in place since 1 September 2022. It does not apply to coupon car parks, where you must display valid parking immediately.
Ignoring the notice can lead to the case being escalated and, eventually, a court summons where the total cost exceeds the original composition amount. Pay or appeal by the date on the notice to avoid extra charges.
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