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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.

 

Area wide Controlled Parking Zones (CPZ)

As part of the wider Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration programme, Barnet Council is required to assess the need for implementing an Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) and has done so by monitoring the impact on parking in the wider area through surveys that took place in November 2023, 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 shown in the map here and as listed below: 

Zone BB (now Zone BA) extension: 

Claremont Road and north of Clitterhouse Playing Fields 

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

Zone GG:  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 

How will we address the parking issues? 

We will be addressing the issues and ensure parking is protected for residents by introducing parking controls on a experimental basis in both areas from Monday 15 December 2025. The controlled hours will run between 9am to 6pm from Monday to Sunday. 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 controls are designed to address the concerns raised to us by residents and prevent non-resident parking.

How to apply for your permit

You can apply for your parking permits here. You must live and have a vehicle registered at an address within the experimental Golders Green (GG) and BA extension area.

Further details of the consultation can be found online for Zone GG and Zone BB here and you can read the Chief Officer Decision Report for GG here, and BA extension here.

Have your say

You are invited to give your views on the experimental scheme which started Monday 15 December 2025. You can do this by emailing us and quoting your zone (this can be either ‘Experimental CPZ GG’ or ‘Experimental CPZ BA extension’) at transformingbx@barnet.gov.uk. You can also write to the Brent Cross Team, 4th Floor, 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London NW9 4EW. 

The closing date of receiving your views on the experimental scheme is Monday 15 June 2026. In line with the statutory process, responses to the experimental consultation cannot be reviewed until the six-month experimental period has ended. 

Pre-consultation feedback

In March 2025, we wrote to residents asking for their views on a proposed experimental Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ), including issues you face with parking, as well as the controlled parking times of operation (days and hours) you would like to see come into effect. Since we undertook the initial consultation earlier this year, which you can view the feedback report online for Zone BB and Zone GG, the Council’s parking team has been engaging with residents, schools, doctors’ surgery and businesses to address concerns and queries before our original target go-live date of September. However, while the overall response rate has been positive, we are still working through some specific queries which we need sufficient time to address. As a result, the CPZ has been rescheduled to go live in December. This also ensures that everyone is given more notice ahead of implementation, and it will coincide with the Council’s new permit system which is currently being updated and improved in time for when you apply for your permits.

When the CPZ is implemented, the controls will operate between 9am to 6pm from Monday to Sunday to address the concerns raised to us by residents and prevent non-resident parking. These controls will run on a trial basis for up to eighteen months so we can monitor and assess how well they are working. During this time, there will be a statutory six-month consultation where you will have the opportunity to share your feedback on the controls. After that, we will review the impact of the measures and use this feedback to help determine the future of the scheme.

As part of the implementation plans, there will be ‘permit holders past this point’ entry signs at the beginning of the CPZ area to maximise as much space as possible for permit holders within an area. Disabled parking places will be provided in suitable locations, as well as pay by phone bays.

Please note that there is no action needed just yet and and we will write to you again with more details and how to apply for your permits ahead of the new implementation date.

You can read the Barnet Council Parking FAQs here, plus additional FAQs here. If you have any questions, please email us at  TransformingBX@barnet.gov.uk or call us on 020 8359 3555. 

Zone BA 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.    

 

Parking at Brent Cross Town

The Brent Cross Town Controlled Parking area covers all estate roads and both the Claremont Way Car Park, and the temporary Tilling Road Car Park, which can be accessed by the Costa Coffee roundabout behind Brent South Shopping Park (there is a pedestrian route that connects through to Claremont Way). Parking wardens monitor these areas, and automated cameras will record any vehicles which exceed the time limits in the car park.

From Friday 2nd January 2026, the Claremont Way Car Park will be free for the first 30minutes, after which parking charges will be applicable. Please check the signs displayed for the restrictions covering different parking bays and car parks will operate 24/7. Should your vehicle be found to be parked in this area in contravention of the parking rules, a Private Parking Ticket (PPT) may be issued. Full details of these penalties are available from the signs located around the town and car parks. See parking charges here.

Transport links to Brent Cross Town

We encourage active travel and the use of public transport where possible. Transport methods to visit Brent Cross Town include Brent Cross underground tube station (Northern Line), Brent Cross West station (Thameslink trains), as well as buses: 102, 189 , C11, 210, 324 and 316. There are also several bikes stands on Claremont Way, at the Exploratory Park and Claremont Park.