Why we have a resident parking scheme

We have a wide variety of people in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and the competing needs of residents, businesses and visitors are ever more demanding on the roads in the borough.

To make sure that we continue to improve the quality of life for people who live in the borough, we enforce parking restrictions to:

• improve the safety of our roads for pedestrians and cyclists
• reduce congestion on the roads
• improve access for emergency and service vehicles
• make public transport more efficient
• reduce the amount of money we have to spend on repairing paving
• help make our environment cleaner
• reduce the number of vehicles that are parked illegally