Brent Cross Cricklewood Experimental Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) UC5 – GG Zone

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This consultation has now closed.

Overview

At Barnet Council, like any other borough, we have a system of parking bays and parking permits that prioritises parking for residents, businesses and their visitors and customers. These systems are called Controlled Parking Zones.

In 2023, we introduced parking controls on a temporary basis, known as an Experimental Controlled Parking Zone (ECPZ) in the NW2 area on Brent Terrace, Clitterhouse Crescent, Clitterhouse Road and a section of Claremont Road. This was implemented to address existing parking issues and prevent non-resident parking in the area. After a formal consultation, we made this first phase of the CPZ permanent

Overview

At Barnet Council, like any other borough, we have a system of parking bays and parking permits that prioritises parking for residents, businesses and their visitors and customers. These systems are called Controlled Parking Zones.

In 2023, we introduced parking controls on a temporary basis, known as an Experimental Controlled Parking Zone (ECPZ) in the NW2 area on Brent Terrace, Clitterhouse Crescent, Clitterhouse Road and a section of Claremont Road. This was implemented to address existing parking issues and prevent non-resident parking in the area. After a formal consultation, we made this first phase of the CPZ permanent in 2024. More information can be found here.

Barnet Council has monitored 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 in the Golders Green Estate area over the last 12 months, including Quantock Gardens, Cotswold Gardens, Cleveland Gardens, Grampian Gardens, Cumbrian Gardens, Chiltern Gardens, Malvern Gardens, Cheviot Gardens, Purbeck Drive, Pennine Drive and Mendip Drive.

The survey identified the following parking issues:

  • The busiest streets in the area include Mendip Drive, followed by Quantock Gardens, Chiltern Gardens, Pennine Drive and Malvern Gardens.
  • Access issues for residents to and from private driveways.
  • Potential impact on local businesses and services including GP and dental service situated on Pennine Drive.
  • The proposed plans for Clitterhouse Playing Fields and the introduction of new sports facilities and other amenities are expected to increase parking pressures.
  • The first phase of the CPZ on Brent Terrace, Clitterhouse Crescent Terrace and Clitterhouse Road has had an impact on neighbouring roads.


What we are proposing

Following resident feedback and based on the survey results, we will be addressing the issues above and ensuring parking is protected for residents by introducing parking controls in the Golders Green Estate area (Zone GG) in 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. We will provide you with more information closer to the time on how and when to apply for your permit.

We have provided a map of the proposed Experimental Controlled Parking Zone and our FAQs below:


Your views are important to us

Before the parking restrictions come into effect and we launch an official consultation, we want to hear your views as early as possible on 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. Your responses will then be reviewed and help shape the consultation that will launch in Summer 2025.

We are particularly interested to hear from residents, tenants, landlords, managing or letting agents, organisations, businesses and all other interested parties.


How to have your say

We are keen to hear your views on parking in your area and encourage you to have your say by completing our questionnaire by Monday 14 April.

If you would like to request a paper questionnaire or another format, please:

  • Email TransformingBX@barnet.gov.uk or telephone 020 8359 3555.
  • Alternatively, you can write to us at Brent Cross Team, London Borough of Barnet, 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, NW9 4EW.

We have written to all properties in the roads affected by the parking issues and invite them to take part in this informal consultation. If you have not received a leaflet or would like someone to help you complete the questionnaire, please contact us using one of the above methods. You can also view the leaflet here.


What happens after the consultation closes?

We will review and use the feedback from residents to inform our ECPZ proposals, so that we address the parking issues in your area. We will publish a report on these findings and share details of the next steps for the ECPZ through a letter and on this webpage later in Spring 2025.

This consultation has now closed.

  • We Asked, You Said, We Did

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    We asked

    We asked for your views on a proposed Experimental Controlled Parking Zone (ECPZ) in the Golders Green Estate (Zone GG) which includes Quantock Gardens, Cotswold Gardens, Cleveland Gardens, Grampian Gardens, Cumbrian Gardens, Chiltern Gardens, Malvern Gardens, Cheviot Gardens, Purbeck Drive, Pennine Drive and Mendip Drive. The ECPZ proposals aim to address existing parking issues, including the impact on local businesses and services such as the GP and dental service on Pennine Drive, and prevent non-resident parking in the area.


    You said

    We wrote to 1075 residents and businesses inviting them to have their say on introducing a CPZ on their road, and what hours of restriction they would like to see. During our one-month consultation, 385 people visited the online consultation and we received a total of 108 responses (online, paper and telephone responses).

    • Out of 108 responses, 69% (75 respondents) are in favour of introducing a CPZ on their road, whilst 31% (33 respondents) are against it.

    Hours of operation

    • Out of 82 responses to the question of what operation times the CPZ should have, 57% (47 respondents) said they wanted the operation times to be longer than four hours, whereas 43% (35 respondents) want the operation times to be four hours or shorter.

    Days of operation

    • Out of 39 responses to the question on when the CPZ should operate, 41% (16 respondents) think the CPZ should operate seven days a week (Monday to Sunday), whilst 43% (17 respondents) think it should operate from Monday to Friday, and 12% (five respondents) said it should be from Monday to Saturday. One person (4%) answered with their own proposed timings.


    We did

    The most common issues raised in the consultation included residents having their driveways blocked by other cars, abandoned vehicles on the road, commuter and commercial parking, and safety concerns due to narrow roads.

    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. In line with neighbouring zones recently implemented, (Zone BA: Clitterhouse Crescent, Clitterhouse Road and a section of Claremont Road), 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, instead of marked bays. This helps 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 from you now and we will write to you in August about how to apply for a parking permit. If you would like to see the permit costs, click here.

    You can read our FAQs, as well as more information about the consultation responses and how we are managing parking in the area by visiting our website Transformingbx.co.uk/cpz