Parking places
Parking is allowed only on the marked car parks. The parking places of Soihtu will be rented in the eParking system. A parking fee will be paid in the eParking system as well.
If you want to rent a parking place, you must first apply for the right to reserve a parking placed based on your address. You can queue for the parking place before your tenancy agreement begins, but it has to be signed. More information on renting a parking place can be found at the webpage of eParking.
Permanent car parking available in following housing locations:
- Kortepohja Student Village
- Soihtu Vehkakuja
Notice, that Soihtu Korttelikylä is a car-free housing location, where only guest parking is available.
Place without heating 11 €/month (only in the Student Village)
Place with heating 13 €/month
Place with shelter, no heating 15 €/month (only in the Student Village)
Place with heating and shelter 23 €/month
Place for electric car 33 €/month (only in the Student Village)
When making new parking place agreement, the key/token for the heating pole can be requested via Tenant’s page to be left in the key box at the service point of Soihtu Housing. You can also use a coin to open the heating pole that can be opened with a token.
When you are moving out, you as the tenant must terminate the parking space agreement with eParking to end at the same time as the tenancy agreement. The landlord also has the right to terminate the parking space agreement to end simultaneously with the apartment tenancy agreement.
Parking is allowed only on the marked car parks. Guest parking places are marked separately. You can park in guest parking places according to the traffic signs in the area. MKM Park Service Oy supervises the parking in Soihtu’s housing locations.
Kortepohja Student Village
Guest parking places are located on the parking lot at Emännäntie. 16 of those parking places can be used for four hours at 8-20 with a parking disc. Three paid places can be used for 24 hours. The price of the those places is 4€/day and the payment can be made via the eParking.fi application.
The customer parking places of Restaurant Rentukka are located in the parking area between buildings T and B as well as near building H.
Soihtu Vehkakuja
Guest parking places are situated next to building C of Soihtu Vehkakuja. Entrance to the parking lot from Taitoniekantie.
Soihtu Korttelikylä
Guest parking places are situated in the inner yard of housing location.
In matters related to parking place reservation or parking fee, please contact the customer service of eParking. Also if someone is parking on your place, you can contact the customer service of eParking.
The parked car’s registration number must be correct in the eParking system because the parking control is based on scanning the registration plate. It is possible to add several car registration numbers to the same parking space.
eParking customer service:
info@eparking.fi
tel. +358 3 4108 9272
eparking.fi
In matters related to the condition of parking places, kindly file a maintenance request to Soihtu Facility Services.
Parking supervision
Parking is allowed only on the marked car parks. MKM Park Service Oy supervises the parking both in the Student Village and at Vehkakuja 2. Possible complaints must be addressed straight to MKM Park Service Oy.
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