Westminster Roadworks: Piccadilly Lanes Shut to 13 Nov

Driving in Westminster is governed by four separate things at once. Whatever is dug up this week. The congestion charge. The controlled parking zone you are standing in. And the events calendar. Getting any one of them wrong costs money.

This page tracks Westminster roadworks from TfL’s live feed, current works at the top, and keeps the permanent rules underneath, because the rules are what you need nine days out of ten.

This week: Piccadilly loses two lanes at Berkeley Street

Two of the three eastbound lanes on Piccadilly (A4) are closed at Berkeley Street for emergency utility works. TfL’s live feed lists the closure from 4 November until 6pm on Friday 13 November. If you are on a bus along Piccadilly, check TfL’s live bus status before you set off.

Bayswater Road (A402) has temporary three-way traffic lights at Lancaster Terrace for water works, on all approaches, from 5 November until 6.30pm on Wednesday 11 November. That is the junction by Lancaster Gate, on the edge of Hyde Park.

Euston Road (A501) eastbound loses lanes one and two of three on the exit slip between Tottenham Court Road and Hampstead Road for carriageway repairs, from 3 November until 11 December. It sits on the Camden boundary.

Updated 6 November: Regent Street’s lights closure on the evening of 5 November is over. Hobart Place in Belgravia, listed as closed eastbound until 9 November, has dropped out of TfL’s feed, as have the Buckingham Palace Road and Tottenham Court Road works. TfL has not said whether Hobart Place finished early, so check before you rely on it.

Remembrance Sunday is on 8 November. Great George Street is closed to the public on the day; our Remembrance Sunday guide has what the organisers have published.

Oxford Street is now traffic free

Oxford Street closed to traffic between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street on Monday 26 October. TfL’s area works page now says the street “is now completely traffic free” on that stretch. Our full story on the change has the background.

Updated 27 October: the closure is in place. TfL’s road disruption feed lists Oxford Street closed in both directions between Portman Street and Great Portland Street, “permanently to facilitate pedestrianisation works”, with the record running to 31 December.

What has changed, from TfL’s area works page:

• Routes 7, N7, 94, N113 and N137 finish at Marble Arch.
• Routes 98, 139, 390, N98 and N207 are rerouted to new stops on Wigmore Street, Henrietta Place and Cavendish Place, about 200 metres from the traffic-free area. The full list of changed routes is in our Oxford Street story.
• Permanently closed to and from Oxford Street: James Street and Binney Street (into Oxford Street) and Gilbert Street (from Oxford Street).
• Taxis and private hire vehicles are barred from the stretch, with ranks within 100 metres of it.
• Cycles, e-bikes, e-scooters and pedicabs are barred too. Mobility scooters and emergency vehicles can use it at any time, and freight servicing vehicles can enter between midnight and 7am on approved access routes.
• Seven north-south crossings stay open to traffic: Orchard Street/North Audley Street, Duke Street, Stratford Place/Davies Street, Vere Street/New Bond Street, Holles Street/Harewood Place, Regent Street and Great Portland Street. TfL warns of short-term closures on some of them during construction.

What is closed or restricted right now

These are the works TfL’s live road disruption feed lists inside the City of Westminster, checked early on Friday 6 November 2026. End dates slip, so treat them as intentions rather than promises.

What has changed since 3 November:

• New: Piccadilly eastbound at Berkeley Street, Bayswater Road at Lancaster Terrace and Euston Road eastbound.
• Gone from the feed: Hobart Place, Buckingham Palace Road at Eaton Lane, and Tottenham Court Road at Bedford Avenue.

The Wellington Road signals in St John’s Wood are due off at 6pm on Monday 9 November, and the Harrow Road signals at Great Western Road at 6pm on 11 November.

The long jobs are unchanged. The Westway westbound is down to two lanes until 5 December. The Marylebone Road lane closure eastbound at Allsop Place, by Baker Street, runs to 23 November. The HS2 gas main works on Finchley Road at Hilgrove Road, on the Camden side of the boundary, run to 6 December.

Tube and trains over the next fortnight

From TfL’s planned line status, checked on 6 November:

• Weekend of 7 and 8 November: TfL lists no planned closures on any Tube line or the Elizabeth line.
• Northern line, 1.30am Saturday 14 to 1.30am Sunday 15 November: no service between Euston (Bank branch) or Charing Cross and Morden or Battersea Power Station, so no Northern line at Charing Cross or Embankment. There is no Friday Night Tube between Charing Cross and Morden. Replacement buses run in the daytime only. The same section closes again from 5.30am on Sunday 15 November.
• Elizabeth line, Sunday 15 November until 10.15am: no service between Paddington and Abbey Wood or Stratford, so no Elizabeth line at Bond Street or Tottenham Court Road that morning. Trains still run west from Paddington.
• Weekend of 21 and 22 November: the Bakerloo line is closed between Queen’s Park and Harrow & Wealdstone, and the Elizabeth line does not run between Paddington and Ealing Broadway until 7.40am on Sunday 22 November.
• Waterloo & City line: weekdays only, as always.

Further out, the Elizabeth line through the West End is affected by the Dolphin Junction work on 28 and 29 November and over Christmas: our Paddington Christmas closure story and Christmas travel page have the detail.

The congestion charge

The charge is £18 a day if you pay on the day or in advance, rising to £21 if you pay by midnight on the third day after travel. It applies:

• 07:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday
• 12:00 to 18:00, Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays

There is no charge between Christmas Day and the New Year bank holiday.

The old 100% Cleaner Vehicle Discount for electric vehicles has ended, and a tiered version replaced it. It is only worth anything if the vehicle is on Auto Pay:

• electric cars pay £13.50 a day, a 25% discount
• electric vans, HGVs and quadricycles pay £9 a day, a 50% discount
• an electric vehicle not registered for Auto Pay pays the full £18

Those discounts are due to shrink again from 4 March 2030, to 12.5% for electric cars and 25% for electric vans.

If you live inside the zone, the Residents’ Discount is 90%, which brings the daily charge down to £1.80. There is a change coming to it. From 1 March 2027, new applicants will only get that 90% discount for an electric vehicle. Existing discount holders keep it for any vehicle type, including replacement vehicles, as long as they renew each year. Residents on certain low income and disability benefits, including Personal Independence Payment, Universal Credit, Carer’s Allowance and State Pension Credit, can still add a non-electric vehicle, provided they apply before 4 March 2030.

A large part of Westminster sits inside the zone and a large part does not, and the boundary runs through the middle of the borough rather than around it, so it is worth checking a specific address rather than assuming. TfL’s zone checker takes a postcode and tells you which side of the line it falls on. As a rough guide, the northern and western edges follow Marylebone Road and Edgware Road, which puts Paddington, Maida Vale, St John’s Wood and Queen’s Park outside it, while Soho, Covent Garden, Mayfair, St James’s and Westminster itself are inside.

Parking: seven zones and a price that depends on your engine

Westminster does not have one parking tariff. It has seven controlled parking zones, A to G, and since 2024 the price per hour depends primarily on your vehicle’s CO2 emissions and fuel type rather than a flat rate.

Those are motorcycle and base rates. What you actually pay is set by an emissions band on top of that: a zero-emission car pays 30% below the base rate, a car in the 91 to 150g/km band pays 14% above it, and the highest band pays 55% above. In Zone G that top band is £10.58 an hour. Pre-2015 diesels pay a 50% surcharge on top again, in every zone.

Three practical points. There is no cash payment and no QR code: the council pays through RingGo, PaybyPhone or JustPark only, by phone, or by parking card, and it warns that any QR code on its signage is not its own. Each operator adds an end-user charge of up to 30p a transaction. And the maximum stay is usually four hours even if you keep paying, so extending past it can still earn you a penalty charge notice.

The concession that used to let electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles buy a full maximum stay for ten minutes’ worth of parking has been withdrawn. Signs still carrying that information have been overlaid.

The routes that carry the traffic

Between roadworks, the same handful of roads do the work in Westminster, and they are the ones to check before you set off:

• Marylebone Road and Euston Road (A501), the northern east-west route, with a lane out eastbound at Allsop Place until 23 November.
• Regent Street, closed to traffic 5pm to 9pm on Thursday 5 November for the lights switch-on.
• Oxford Street (A40), traffic free between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street since 26 October, with seven north-south crossings left open.
• Park Lane and Grosvenor Place (A4202, A4), the western north-south route from Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner and Victoria, clear of listed works this week.
• Edgware Road (A5), north out of Marble Arch, and the road the Westway restriction feeds into until 5 December.
• Wellington Road and Finchley Road (A41), the route north through St John’s Wood, with three-way signals at the Wellington Road and Finchley Road junction until 9 November and lane restrictions at Hilgrove Road, on the Camden side, until 6 December.
• Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue (A3212, A400), the Trafalgar Square to Embankment link, clear of listed works since the Northumberland Avenue closure ended on 30 October.
• Victoria Street, Vauxhall Bridge Road and Millbank (A302, A202, A3212), the southern routes through Victoria, Pimlico and past Parliament, with the pavement obstructed on Buckingham Palace Road at Eaton Lane until 6 November, and Hobart Place closed eastbound in Belgravia until 9 November.
• Piccadilly and Pall Mall (A4), the West End spine, clear of listed works this week.
• Harrow Road (A404), the Paddington to Kensal route, with temporary signals at Great Western Road until 11 November.

Station parking is not a thing here

Unlike a commuter town, none of Westminster’s main line stations has a station car park worth using. Paddington, Victoria, Marylebone and Charing Cross are all inside or on the edge of the congestion charge zone and surrounded by controlled parking. If you are meeting a train, the practical options are a short-stay bay paid through one of the three apps, an off-street NCP or hotel car park, or the Tube. Our Tube and train times page has the fares.

Frequently asked questions

What roadworks are on in Westminster right now?

Regent Street closes to traffic from 5pm to 9pm on Thursday 5 November for its lights. Hobart Place in Belgravia is closed eastbound until 9 November. There are temporary signals on Harrow Road at Great Western Road until 11 November. Oxford Street has been closed to traffic between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street since Monday 26 October. Checked against TfL on 3 November 2026.

Is Oxford Street traffic free now?

Yes. Oxford Street has been traffic free between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street since Monday 26 October 2026. Routes 7, 94 and N137 finish at Marble Arch, and routes 98, 139 and 390 use stops on Wigmore Street, Henrietta Place and Cavendish Place instead. Our Oxford Street story sets out what changes.

Which buses stop using Oxford Street?

Routes 7, N7, 94, N113 and N137 have finished at Marble Arch since Saturday 24 October. Since the evening of Sunday 25 October, routes 98, 139, 390, N98 and N207 have been rerouted off Oxford Street, with new stops on Wigmore Street, Henrietta Place and Cavendish Place.

Is the Northern line closed at Charing Cross?

Yes, from 1.30am on Saturday 14 to 1.30am on Sunday 15 November. TfL lists no service between Euston (Bank branch) or Charing Cross and Morden or Battersea Power Station, with replacement buses in the daytime only. The Piccadilly line, shut on 31 October and 1 November, is running again.

How long is the Westway restricted?

Until 5 December 2026, on the westbound carriageway between Edgware Road and the Northern Roundabout, where it is reduced to two lanes for infrastructure inspection.

How much is the congestion charge?

£18 a day paid on the day or in advance, or £21 if you pay by midnight on the third day after travel. It runs 07:00 to 18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00 to 18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays. An electric car registered for Auto Pay pays £13.50, an electric van £9, and a resident with the 90% Residents’ Discount pays £1.80.

Is the electric vehicle exemption from the congestion charge gone?

Yes. The 100% Cleaner Vehicle Discount has ended and been replaced by a tiered discount of 25% for electric cars and 50% for electric vans, HGVs and quadricycles, and it only applies if the vehicle is registered for Auto Pay. An electric vehicle that is not on Auto Pay pays the full £18.

How much does it cost to park in Westminster?

Between £1.51 and £10.58 an hour, depending on the zone and your vehicle’s CO2 emissions. Zone C, covering Harrow Road, Queen’s Park and northern Maida Vale, is the cheapest. Zones F and G, covering Marylebone, Fitzrovia, Soho and Covent Garden, are the dearest. Pre-2015 diesels pay 50% more again.

Can I pay for parking with cash or a QR code?

No. Westminster takes payment only through the RingGo, PaybyPhone and JustPark apps, by phone or by parking card. The council states it does not use QR codes on its pay-to-park signage, so a QR sticker on a sign is not from the council.

Where can I check live traffic in Westminster?

TfL publishes a live traffic status page and an open road disruption feed that lists every current closure with its extent and end date. That feed is what this page is built from.

Related

• Westminster Tube and train times: fares, caps and journey times when driving is not worth it.
• Westminster planning news: the Oxford Street development corporation and what it means for the streets around it.
• Things to do in Westminster: where you are probably trying to get to.

Sources

• TfL road disruption feed, checked 3 November 2026, for every current work, its extent, its severity rating, its start and end date, its daily schedule and its last update time.
• TfL: Oxford Street area works checked 25 and 27 October 2026, for the 26 October traffic-free date, the bus route changes, the permanently closed side streets and the rules on the traffic-free stretch.
• TfL live traffic status for day-to-day updates.
• TfL planned line status and the TfL line status API, checked 27 October and 3 November 2026, for the clear weekend of 7 and 8 November and the Northern line closure on 14 and 15 November.
• The Crown Estate, The Festive Spirits return to Regent Street, 1 October 2026, for the 5pm to 9pm closure on 5 November.
• TfL Congestion Charge for the £18 and £21 rates and the hours of operation, checked 5 September 2026.
• TfL: changes to the Congestion Charging scheme for the tiered Cleaner Vehicle Discount, the £13.50 and £9 rates, the Auto Pay condition, the £1.80 Residents’ Discount rate, the 1 March 2027 change for new applicants and the 4 March 2030 reductions.
• Westminster City Council: parking zones and prices for the seven zones and their areas, and the parking prices from 2 March 2026 tariff sheet for every per-hour figure, the emissions bands and the diesel surcharge.
• Westminster City Council: parking prices for the operator end-user charge and the withdrawal of the electric vehicle concession.

Roadworks move and end dates slip. Check the live TfL feed before you set off.