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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:  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 temporary basis, known as an Experimental Controlled Parking Zone (ECPZ) in both areas from Summer 2025. 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. In March 2025, we wrote to residents asking for their views on a proposed Experimental Controlled Parking Zone (ECPZ), 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.

Pre-consultation feedback and next steps

The pre-consultation report can be viewed on Engage Barnet for Zone BB and Zone GG. Based on the feedback, which members of the project team have carefully reviewed, we will be implementing an Experimental Controlled Parking Zone, which will be installed during August, and operational from early September 2025. The parking controls will be operational from Monday to Sunday from 9am to 6pm. The controls are designed to address the concerns raised by residents and the hours and days are a balance of the range of responses we received, including those who responded with ‘other’.

As part of the implementation plans, there will be ‘permit holders past this point’ entry signs at the beginning of the ECPZ 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.

As this is an ECPZ, there will be a statutory consultation period for the first six months whilst it is operational, and you will have the opportunity to share your feedback on the controls during this period. After that, we will review the impact of the measures and use this feedback to help determine the future of the scheme.

Please note that there is no action needed just yet and we will write to residents in August about how to apply for a parking permit.

You can read our FAQs here. If you have any questions, please email us at TransformingBX@barnet.gov.uk or call us on 020 8359 3555. 

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.    

 

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.