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Booking system for parks, markets & open spaces.

A park booking system already used by UK councils. Take bookings and card payments for events in your parks, allocate numbered market-stall pitches to regular traders, and book out town-centre promotional spaces — all from one calendar.

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Parks & green spaces, booked online.

An outdoor space booking system for everything that happens in your parks — one-off events on the recreation ground, regular activities such as boot camps, dog training and walking groups, and casual hire of a green, bandstand or pavilion. It is booking software for outdoor activities that residents can actually use.

  • Events in parks — fetes, fairs, fun days and outdoor cinema
  • Regular activities — boot camps, dog training and walking groups
  • Casual hire of a green, bandstand or pavilion
  • Capacity limits and conflict checks built in

A market stall booking system for your traders.

Set up the weekly market once and let regular traders hold the same numbered pitch every week, while casual traders book any pitch that is free. Allocate pitches at a glance, and invoice regular and casual traders without raising each one by hand.

  • Recurring weekly stall bookings for regular traders
  • Allocate numbered pitches and see what's free at a glance
  • Take casual one-off stall bookings alongside the regulars
  • Invoice regular and casual traders from the same system

Promotional & town-centre spaces.

Open up your town-centre promotional pitches and gazebo spots so charities and local businesses can book them online. LemonBooking shows the dates each space is available, applies your own pricing, and routes the booking to a clerk for approval where you need it.

  • Book out town-centre promo pitches and gazebo spots
  • Open to charities and local businesses, with your rules
  • Set available dates and pricing for each space
  • Send every booking through to a clerk for approval

Invoicing & payments built in.

Auto-invoice the moment a booking is approved, take online card payments through the providers councils actually use — GOV.UK Pay, Civica, Pay360 and SumUp, and generate a month of trader invoices in a single bulk run rather than raising each one by hand.

  • Auto-send an invoice with a payment link the moment you approve
  • Online card payments through GOV.UK Pay, Civica, Pay360 and SumUp
  • Bulk invoice runs for regular weekly market traders
Pay360 Civica GOV.UK Pay SumUp

Trusted by councils.

This isn't a guess at what councils need. UK town, parish and district councils already run their parks, markets and promotional spaces on LemonBooking — the same system that handles their halls, sports facilities and meeting rooms. Your data stays in a UK data centre, with the controls a council's data-protection policy expects.

  • UK data centre — your booking data never leaves the UK
  • GDPR-aligned, with access roles and a full audit log
  • Cyber Essentials certified
  • ICO registration ZB547878

Trusted by councils up and down the country

Borough of Bexley
Brighton & Hove City Council
Buckinghamshire Council
Mid & East Antrim Borough Council
Wakefield Council

Customer review from Trustpilot

“We run a busy Town Hall with three rooms and over two hundred customers. Lemon booking has all the function we need for web site, bookings and invoicing (it can handle payments as well but we do that on Quickbooks). The support is fantastic. We were already using another good booking system but Lemon had so many useful additional functions and was cheaper.”

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Mark (Town hall manager)
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Frequently asked questions

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Can we take bookings for parks and green spaces?

Yes — let residents and organisers book events in your parks, regular activities such as boot camps, dog training and walking groups, or casual use of a green, bandstand or pavilion. Each space gets its own calendar, pricing and booking form, with conflict checks built in.

Can we handle recurring market-stall bookings and invoice traders?

Yes — set up the weekly market once, allocate numbered pitches to regular traders and take casual stall bookings alongside them. Generate a month of trader invoices in a single bulk run rather than raising each one by hand.

Can we book out promotional and town-centre spaces?

Yes — let charities and businesses book town-centre promotional pitches and gazebo spots online, with your own approval rules, available dates and pricing for each space.

Is it actually used by councils?

Yes — UK town, parish and district councils already use the system to manage bookings for halls, sports facilities, parks, markets and promotional spaces. Data is held in a UK data centre, with GDPR-aligned controls, Cyber Essentials certification and ICO registration ZB547878.

Is there a free trial?

Yes — start a 30-day free trial with no card required. We help you set up your spaces, pitches, booking rules and payment providers so you are not starting from a blank page.

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