London Free Parking Map

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London Free ParkingLoading 85,733 streets…

About this map

Green streets sit outside every controlled parking zone, so parking there is free at any hour. Blue streets are in a zone and free outside its hours: choose “Pick a time” to see which. Yellow lines, signs and road markings always override this map.

How it was made

Start with every residential street. 83,689 street segments from OpenStreetMap, 10,540 km in all.
Take out parking zones. Zone boundaries for most boroughs, council street lists for the rest, and all of Islington and the City, which are zones end to end.
Take out other restrictions. Private roads, Royal Parks roads and no-parking tags. Sutton and Bromley publish their yellow lines, so their streets are checked kerb by kerb.
What's left is free all day. Zone streets are free outside their hours, and the key's “Pick a time” adds them. Grey streets couldn't be checked yet.

How much of London it covers

When zones end

Checks

Borough by borough

Borough	Data	Free km	Free

Free km counts streets with no zone found, including Sutton streets with some yellow lines. Select a borough to go to it.

What's next

Ask Croydon for a current zone layer with hours (its maps date from 2008 to 2021), Waltham Forest for its zones as data rather than a PDF, and Richmond for its street lists as data instead of one look-up per street. The Healthy Streets Scorecard coalition also holds a May 2025 zone map of all 33 boroughs built from council data, which could be used to cross-check them if they agree to share it.
Get reuse permission for everything that isn't open data: the layers read from council maps (Brent, Enfield, Greenwich, Hounslow, Lewisham, Redbridge, Southwark), the zones traced from Croydon's and Waltham Forest's PDF maps, Wandsworth's street finder, and the consultant and staff copies (Barnet, Harrow, Haringey, Barking and Dagenham). Ask for fresh copies of the old layers (Hillingdon 2013, Kingston 2021, Lambeth 2022).
Add yellow lines everywhere. Sutton and Bromley show they change the answer. Ask councils for their traffic-order line data (Bromley released its under FOI), and switch to the DfT's D-TRO feed as boroughs join it.
Remove private and unadopted roads using each council's adopted-highways register. Barking and Dagenham already publishes one.
Let drivers confirm or flag a street, and show the date each borough was last checked.

Portsmouth

Added 24 Oct 2026. All 2,044 residential streets in the city (307 km) from OpenStreetMap, checked against Portsmouth City Council's 47 residents' parking zones.

180 km (59%) sit outside every zone, so they're free all day. 119 km are in a zone: 54 km of that is in zones that run 24 hours, where parking without a permit is limited to an hour or two, or not allowed at all. The other zones run for set hours, some only 4pm to 6pm, and are free outside them. 5.6 km are grey: streets missing from the lists but surrounded by zone streets, and unnamed roads beside zones.

The council's pages list the roads whose residents can get each zone's permits. Main roads on those lists, such as Victoria Road North or Clarendon Road, aren't drawn, because the map only shows residential streets.

Sources and licences

Streets: OpenStreetMap residential and living streets, snapshot 23 Oct 2026 13:39 UTC, via the Overpass API. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Borough boundaries: ONS Local Authority Districts (May 2026), generalised clipped. Open Government Licence; contains OS data © Crown copyright.

Zone boundaries: each council's published layer, listed in the table. Lambeth, Hackney and Tower Hamlets use the Open Government Licence; Sutton marks its data public domain; Kensington and Chelsea uses CC-BY. The others state no licence, and the consultant and staff copies need council permission before public use.

Council online maps, read 23 Oct 2026: Brent (CPZ map, layer updated Sep 2026), Enfield (CPZ page map), Greenwich (CPZ map, polygons updated Oct 2026), Lewisham (MapThat map), Redbridge (permit parking zones map), Southwark (parking map) and Hounslow (Statmap CPZ map, whose outlines were traced from the map images and named with its identify tool). These maps are published for viewing, not as open data.

Street lists: Ealing and Bexley council websites and Wandsworth's CPZ street finder, read 23 Oct 2026; Havering's Parking Permit Zones Lookup (40 zones), read 23 Oct 2026; Richmond's CPZ spaces spreadsheet (2015) with its current zone times page, plus Richmond's CPZ checker, looked up on 23 Oct 2026 for each of the 808 street names missing from the 2015 lists. Royal Parks outlines: OpenStreetMap.

Traced PDF maps: Croydon's 20 permit zone maps (croydon.gov.uk, dated 2008 to 2021), with zone hours from the council's RingGo parking locator (tariffs updated 30–31 Mar 2026), the maps' own notes, and the council's traffic-order notices for the 2019–20 extensions; Waltham Forest's CPZ Overview Map (walthamforest.gov.uk, 5 Mar 2026) and its colour key for hours. Both were placed on the map here and traced; they are published for viewing, not as open data.

Bromley: CPZ boundaries and traffic-order restriction lines released by the council under a Freedom of Information request (WhatDoTheyKnow, 12 August 2026). Sutton's restriction lines: the council's open WFS (public domain). Zone hours checked against council pages and traffic-order notices.

Cross-check: Healthy Streets Scorecard 2026, CPZ coverage by borough (Datawrapper data, council data as of May 2025). Area names: OpenStreetMap places with a Wikidata or Wikipedia link, or listed in Wikipedia's List of areas of London.

Postcodes: ONS Postcode Directory, latest edition, the 180,965 live postcodes in the London region, read 23 Oct 2026. Source: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; GeoPlace data © Local Government Information House Limited copyright and database right 2026.

Portsmouth: residential and living streets from OpenStreetMap, snapshot 24 Oct 2026 01:04 UTC, via the Overpass API (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). City outline: ONS Local Authority Districts (May 2026), Open Government Licence. Zones, road lists, hours and visitor rules: Portsmouth City Council's 47 zone pages, read 24 Oct 2026; published for viewing, not as open data.

Postcodes and places outside London: looked up as you type with postcodes.io, which uses the ONS Postcode Directory, OS Open Names and the Scottish Postcode Directory. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right; Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right; National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right; NRS data © Crown copyright and database right. Northern Ireland postcodes are free for non-commercial use. This works on the website only.

Built 23 Oct 2026 from council and OpenStreetMap data. A test build, not parking advice.