London Free Parking Map

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London Free ParkingLoading 90,410 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. Every street in the city that has homes or parking on it, main roads included: 3,633 stretches of road (472 km) from OpenStreetMap.

231 km (49%) are free all day, 75 km of them with some yellow lines. 160 km are in one of the council's 47 residents' parking zones; 76 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. 5 km have time-limited or paid bays, free outside their hours. 32 km are no parking, mostly double yellow lines. 45 km are grey: main roads the traffic order couldn't settle, unnamed roads, fast roads on Portsdown Hill and a few pay and display streets.

The zones come from the council's zone pages: the shape drawn on each zone's map decides which streets are in it, and the zone's road list fills any gaps. Yellow lines and bays come from the council's consolidated traffic order of May 2022, read street by street. Changes made since 2022 aren't in it, so treat those parts as a guide and go by the signs.

Hatfield

Added 24 Oct 2026. Every street in Hatfield, the town council's area, that has homes or parking on it, main roads included: 1,230 stretches of road (161 km) from OpenStreetMap.

41 km (26%) are free all day. 50 km are in one of the borough council's 29 resident permit zones, B01 to B30, where you need a permit while the zone is in force. 22 of the zones run on weekdays only, five also on Saturdays and two every day, mostly from 8 or 9am to 5 or 6pm, so most of them are free in the evening and at weekends. 1.0 km are private roads or marked no parking. 68 km are grey: 33 km of main roads and 30 km of fast country lanes, where yellow lines and laybys decide, plus a few short streets that sit among zone streets but aren't on any list.

The zones and their hours come from the council's parking permit areas page, and every street on a zone's list is shown in that zone. Where a zone takes only part of a street, the house numbers or junctions in the list decide which part. The borough's parking order draws its yellow lines on plans that aren't published, so a street shown as free can still have yellow lines at junctions: go by the signs.

Welwyn Garden City

Added 24 Oct 2026. Every street in Welwyn Garden City that has homes or parking on it, main roads included: 1,359 stretches of road (167 km) from OpenStreetMap.

117 km (70%) are free all day. 21 km are in one of the borough council's 23 resident permit zones (AK, AV and A01 to A21), mostly around the town centre and the station, where you need a permit while the zone is in force. All of them run in the daytime on weekdays or Monday to Saturday, so they're free in the evening and on Sundays. 27 km are grey: 21 km of main roads, plus unnamed and fast roads and a few short streets that sit among zone streets but aren't on any list.

The zones and their hours come from the council's parking permit areas page. Where a zone takes only part of a street, such as Parkway's sections between particular junctions, the junctions in the list decide which part. Yellow lines aren't published here either, so go by the signs.

Potters Bar

Added 24 Oct 2026. Every street in and around Potters Bar that has homes or parking on it, main roads included: 507 stretches of road (80 km) from OpenStreetMap.

23 km (29%) are free all day. 32 km are in one of Hertsmere Borough Council's seven permit zones: J, JA, K, KA, L, M and N. Zone N runs Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6.30pm, and zone KA Monday to Friday, 1pm to 2pm. The council hasn't published the other zones' hours, so on those 22 km the card says to check the signs. 4 km have single yellow lines for set hours, mostly North Potters Bar's 1pm to 2pm lines. 20 km are grey: main roads, a few pay and display streets and unnamed roads.

The zones come from the council's 2022 parking charges notice, which lists each zone's streets with permit parking places. A street on that list may only have bays in parts, with yellow lines elsewhere, so go by the signs.

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 (the shapes on each zone page's map), road lists, hours and visitor rules: Portsmouth City Council's 47 zone pages, read 24 Oct 2026; published for viewing, not as open data. Yellow lines, limited-waiting and pay and display bays: The Portsmouth City Council (Consolidation) (On-Street Parking Places and Restrictions on Waiting and Loading) (No.1) Order 2022, in operation from 31 May 2022, read street by street; later amendments aren't included. Pay and display streets also from the council's city centre charges notice (March 2025) and seafront parking order (2025). Busier streets: OpenStreetMap unclassified, tertiary, secondary and primary roads, snapshot 24 Oct 2026 01:35 UTC.

Hatfield: streets from OpenStreetMap (residential, living, unclassified, tertiary, secondary and primary roads), snapshot 24 Oct 2026 02:52 UTC, via the Overpass API (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); house numbers for zones that take only part of a street also from OpenStreetMap addresses. Town outline: ONS Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), Hatfield, Open Government Licence. Zones, road lists and hours: Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council's parking permit areas page for Hatfield, read 24 Oct 2026; published for viewing, not as open data. Zone B12's house numbers: the list of addresses eligible for permits in The Borough of Welwyn Hatfield (Control of Parking) (Consolidation) Order 2021.

Welwyn Garden City: streets from OpenStreetMap (residential, living, unclassified, tertiary, secondary and primary roads), snapshot 24 Oct 2026 03:31 UTC, via the Overpass API (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Town outline: ONS Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), Welwyn Hatfield unparished area, Open Government Licence. Zones, road lists and hours: Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council's parking permit areas page for Welwyn Garden City, read 24 Oct 2026; published for viewing, not as open data.

Potters Bar: streets from OpenStreetMap (as above), snapshot 24 Oct 2026 03:32 UTC, via the Overpass API (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Town outline: ONS Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), the Potters Bar part of Hertsmere's unparished area, Open Government Licence. Zones and their streets: Hertsmere Borough Council's notice of variation for parking charges, Potters Bar (March 2022), which also lists the pay and display streets. Zone N's hours: the council's Zone N parking places order (2017); zone KA's: its 2014 order and 2015 amendment. Single yellow lines: the North Potters Bar waiting restriction orders (2014 and 2015) and the Elmfield Road area order (2015).

Feedback: comments sent from the map go only to the site owner, stored in the owner's Cloudflare account with the street and the time; no names, email addresses or IP addresses are kept.

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.