Parking in Borehamwood: £1.20 an Hour, Free Sundays

Hertsmere runs one tariff across the whole borough. Park in Borehamwood, Bushey, Bushey Heath, Potters Bar or Radlett and you pay the same rate per hour in every council car park.

The two things worth knowing before you set off:

• Charges apply Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6.30pm only. Sundays and bank holidays are free, so parking is free all day on Monday 31 August.
• You still have to display a ticket even when parking is free. That is the council’s own instruction on its about our car parks page, and it is the sort of rule a civil enforcement officer will act on.

The tariff

One car park breaks that pattern. At Newberries in Radlett, over five hours costs £9.00 rather than £7.50. Every other rate there matches the rest of the borough. It is the only council car park in Hertsmere where a full day costs more.

Paying by phone adds a 14p service charge from PayByPhone, plus 20p each if you want a text confirmation or an expiry reminder. Those are PayByPhone’s fees, not the council’s. You cannot extend a session by phone once it has started.

The Venue refund trap. If you use the Civic Offices car park to visit The Venue in Borehamwood, you can claim part of the parking charge back from The Venue itself. You can only do that if you paid with coins at the machine, because the claim needs the ticket stub. Pay by phone and the refund is gone.

Every Hertsmere car park

All fourteen are open 24 hours except Furzehill Road, which is locked overnight.

Borehamwood

Potters Bar

Bushey and Bushey Heath

Radlett

That is 1,766 spaces across the borough, 76 of them blue badge bays. Radlett has a single council car park, and it is currently being worked on: electric vehicle charging bays are going in, with resurfacing programmed for early September. We covered that in the Newberries works story.

Eight car parks have electric vehicle charging. Clarendon Road and Salisbury Close have both AC and DC fast points; the Civic Offices has four 7kW fast chargers; Manor Road and Opposite St Peter’s Hall have DC fast points; Barnet Road and Kemp Place have AC points; The Rutts has both.

On-street parking, town by town

The council publishes the restriction on each street but does not publish an on-street tariff alongside it. Where a bay is a paid one, PayByPhone works and the location code is on a sign near the bay.

The pattern that matters is how long you get. Shopping streets are one hour; side streets are two; a handful of streets allow 10.5 hours, which is what commuters use.

Borehamwood (source), Monday to Saturday 8am to 6.30pm, no return within two hours:

• Shenley Road: 1 hour
• Grovenor Road, Clarendon Road, Glenhaven Avenue, Drayton Road, Cardinal Avenue, Whitehouse Avenue: 2 hours
• Maxwell Road and Station Road: 10.5 hours, and Monday to Friday only. The Saturday restriction does not apply on these two.

Potters Bar (source), Monday to Saturday 8am to 6.30pm:

• 1 hour: High Street, Hatfield Road, Southgate Road, Barnet Road, Darkes Lane, and Mutton Lane at the Darkes Lane junction
• 10.5 hours: Baker Street, Heather Way, Wyllyotts Place, The Walk, Cotton Road, St Johns Close, Byng Drive, The Drive, Whaley Road, Billy Lows Lane, and Mutton Lane at the High Street junction
• The Parkside area of the High Street allows 10.5 hours even though the rest of the High Street is one hour, and Hatfield Road carries both limits on different stretches. Read the plate on the pole rather than assuming.

Bushey and Bushey Heath (source):

• High Road and High Street: 1 hour, Monday to Saturday 8.30am to 6.30pm
• Greatham Road: 2 hours, Monday to Saturday 8am to 6.30pm

Radlett (source): Aldenham Avenue, Newberries Parade and Watling Street are all 2 hours, Monday to Saturday 8am to 6.30pm.

Permits

Residents’ permits only exist inside a controlled parking zone, and they are virtual: there is nothing to display.

Four per household is the maximum, and some zones cap it lower. New builds are not always eligible, so check on 020 8207 7422 before you budget for one. Allow ten working days. None of these permits are refundable. Residents in zone VB cannot buy visitor permits at all. Landlords cannot hold a resident permit for a tenanted property.

A resident permit is valid only for your own area, not across the whole zone, so it will not cover a trip to the shops two streets away.

Commuter permits

If you drive to the train at Borehamwood or Radlett, the council sells a commuter permit valid only in Furzehill Road car park, Borehamwood and Newberries car park, Radlett, Monday to Saturday 8am to 6.30pm:

• 3 months: £175
• 6 months: £300
• 12 months: £540

That is the cheapest regular commuter parking in the borough by a wide margin, and the comparison is stark. An annual season ticket at Elstree and Borehamwood station car park is £1,418.80, and at Radlett station it is £1,461.30. Demand is high enough that the council sometimes runs a waiting list.

Cancelling a 12-month permit refunds £270 within the first six months and £135 between six and nine months, less a £20 admin fee. Nothing comes back after nine months, and three-month permits are never refunded.

Blue badge parking

Hertsmere is generous here, and the rule is easy to miss.

• In council car parks: free, for an unlimited time. Display the badge.
• In resident permit bays inside a CPZ: unlimited time, badge displayed.
• On yellow lines outside a CPZ, with no loading ban: up to three hours, clock set, and you cannot return within an hour.
• In pay and display bays: free.
• In a marked disabled bay: unlimited, unless the sign shows a time limit. Limited waiting bays near shops and high streets do carry limits, and the unlimited rule does not apply to them.

Badges themselves come from Hertfordshire County Council. So does an application for a disabled bay outside a controlled parking zone. Inside a zone, you apply to Hertsmere.

Station car parks

Station car parks are run for the train operators, not by the council, and they are far dearer than the council’s own.

The three Thameslink and Great Northern car parks are APCOA’s. A 15p convenience fee is added to every APCOA tariff, and daily tickets expire at 4am rather than midnight. Evening parking after 5pm on a weekday is £4.10 at Elstree and Borehamwood, £4.00 at Potters Bar and £3.90 at Radlett. Blue badge holders park free at all three, but only after registering the vehicle through the APCOA Blue Badge portal or the APCOA Connect app, or by ringing 01895 262122.

Bushey is the odd one out in three ways. It is run by Saba for Transport for London, it has only 70 spaces, and its address is Pinner Road, Watford, which puts the car park outside Hertsmere even though the station carries the Bushey name. It also charges the full weekday rate on bank holidays, so 31 August is free in every council car park and £8.50 there. Maximum stay is seven days.

Annual parking is where the gap opens up. Bushey at £2,160 costs nearly £700 more a year than Elstree and Borehamwood at £1,418.80, for a car park a fifth of the size.

Questions people actually ask

Is parking free on Sundays in Borehamwood?

Yes. Council car parks charge Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6.30pm. Sundays and bank holidays are free, but you must still take a ticket from the machine.

What is the cheapest all-day parking in Borehamwood?

£7.50 in any council car park, or £540 a year for a commuter permit in Furzehill Road, which works out cheaper than paying daily if you park more than about 72 days a year.

Can I pay for Hertsmere parking on my phone?

Yes, PayByPhone covers every council car park and on-street bay. It costs 14p a session on top of the parking, and you cannot extend a session once started.

Which Borehamwood car park is open overnight?

All of them except Furzehill Road, which is locked overnight.

Related

• Borehamwood roadworks and travel: what is closed and where the diversions run.
• Borehamwood bin collection days: rounds, garden waste and the tip.
• Borehamwood train times to London: what you are parking for.

Sources

• Hertsmere Borough Council, About our car parks for charging hours, the free Sunday and bank holiday rule, the display requirement and the Furzehill Road overnight lock.
• The council’s individual car park pages for every tariff, space count, blue badge bay count and charging point above.
• Hertsmere Borough Council, Pay by phone for the PayByPhone fees and The Venue refund rule.
• The council’s on-street parking pages for Borehamwood, Potters Bar, Bushey and Radlett for every street and time limit.
• Hertsmere Borough Council, Resident parking permit, Resident visitor parking permits and Commuter parking permit for all permit prices and refund rules.
• Hertsmere Borough Council, Disabled Parking for blue badge entitlements.
• APCOA’s car park pages for Elstree station, Radlett station and Potters Bar station for station tariffs, space counts and blue badge registration.
• Saba Parking, Bushey Station Car Park for Bushey’s tariffs, 70 spaces, bank holiday rate and seven-day maximum stay.

Tariffs and restrictions were checked against the sources above on 26 August 2026. The council does not publish a price for its on-street bays, so none is quoted here.