Video: Drivers in Leeds pay for parking with chestnuts Drivers in Leeds have been able to pay in chestnuts for their parking privileges after a local chain of car parks launched a 'Bonkers for Conkers' scheme. Town Centre Car Parks started the campaign which allows chestnuts to be used as 20 pence at their parking lots, meaning an hour of parking costs just four conkers. The company has already collected over 1,500 chestnuts and company director Ben Ziff says they plan on planting them: Whilst the customer doesn't actually waste a lot of CO2 at our branches, they obviously waste quite a lot of CO2 coming to and from us, so in order to help to offset those CO2 emissions, we've got to plant new trees.