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Parking in the Brent Cross Cricklewood Regeneration Area

On these pages you’ll find information about the measures Barnet Council, and its partners are putting in place to manage parking in the area.

 

Parking at Brent Cross Town

Our partner, Related Argent, has introduced new parking for visitors wishing to use the Exploratory Park, Claremont Park, or the new shops at Claremont Way, additional signage is in place to signpost visitors to these areas and we are encouraging visitors not to drive at all where possible.

More information about parking at Brent Cross Town can be found here.

Area wide Controlled Parking Zones (CPZ)

As part of the wider Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration programme, Barnet Council is required to review and assess the need for implementing a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the area surrounding Brent Cross West and Brent Cross Town, as shown by the map here.

Barnet Council has monitored the impact on parking through surveys that took place before the opening of Brent Cross West station in November 2023, as well as in June 2024 and August 2024. The results of the surveys show that there has been an increase in the levels of parking on most of the roads in the area over the last 12 months. To address the issues and prevent non-resident parking in the area, we will be introducing parking controls on a temporary basis in 2025, known as an Experimental Controlled Parking Zone (ECPZ) on your road. This will mean that anyone wanting to park along the roads during the hours of restriction will need to apply for a parking permit or visitor parking permits.

The areas included in the CPZ are: 

Area 1:  Claremont Road and north of Clitterhouse Playing Fields 

Claremont Road, Prayle Grove, Marble Drive, Wallcote Avenue and Amber Grove 

Area 2:  Golders Green Estate (south of Clitterhouse Playing Fields) 

Quantock Gardens, Cotswold Gardens, Cleveland Gardens, Grampian Gardens, Pennine Drive, Purbeck Drive, Cheviot Gardens, Cumbrian Gardens, Chiltern Gardens, Mendip Drive, Malvern Gardens 

Controlled Parking Zones in the area will be led by Barnet Council’s highways team. We will be contacting you in the new year to provide more details about when the parking restrictions will come into effect, how to apply for future permits, and how we will gather resident feedback on the ECPZ.

Previous Experimental Controlled Parking Zone consultation (20 March 2023 – 30 September 2024)

On 20 March 2023, an Experimental Controlled Parking Zone (previously referred to as an Experimental Traffic Regulation Order) was installed on Brent Terrace, Clitterhouse Crescent, Clitterhouse Road and a section of Claremont Road. The Experimental Controlled Parking Zone means that anyone wanting to park along the named roads during the hours of control would now need to apply for a parking permit.  

We asked:  

We asked for your views on the Brent Cross Cricklewood Experimental Controlled Parking Zone.  

Here are some your feedback: 

  • The hours of control are too long.
  • Unsafe parking on Claremont Road around Clitterhouse Crescent North. 
  • There are no safe access points from Clitterhouse Crescent into Claremont Park for pedestrians with mobility issues. 
  • Cost of permits are a concern.
  • More parking enforcement is needed. 

Here’s what we did:

To address the feedback received in the first part of this consultation, we reduced the control hours to (9am to 6pm) and improved access to the park entrance at Clitterhouse Crescent by restricting parking. Alternative parking spaces are allocated nearby to compensate. 

We also asked the parking team about increasing parking enforcement and to update residents on what will happen to the cost of resident permits. 

Based on feedback, and although outside of the Experimental Controlled Parking Zone, we also installed double yellow lines on Claremont Road, between Clitterhouse Crescent and Whitefield Avenue, to prevent unsafe parking.  

Second-stage consultation (26 October 2023 – 25 April 2024):

We heard what you said in the initial consultation, and listened to feedback and reduced the operational times for controlled parking to 9am to 6pm. We also implemented some double yellow lines on Claremont Road to prevent unsafe parking on the bends between Clitterhouse Crescent and Whitefield Avenue. Based on this, the consultation was extended by six months, closing on 25 April 2024 and the free period for zone BA residential parking permit was also extended by 3 months.

Please see our FAQs here.  Click here to see a map of the Experimental Controlled Parking Zone.

Outcome of the consultation and next steps:

After reviewing the feedback and observations from the Experimental Controlled Parking Zone, the Council decided to make the CPZ permanent from Thursday 20 June 2024. You can see the full consultation report here.