Exhibition Road

Parking

Exhibition Road - north of Cromwell Road

Exhibiton Road is a Restricted Zone. This means that parking is prohibited anywhere in the road except in marked parking bays. We do not need extra signs or ugly yellow lines to enforce a Resticted Zone.

There are Residents' parking bays and Blue Badge bays marked out along the road and each bays is signed to show which permit holders may park there. There is no visitor parking in Exhibition Road. The nearest pay and display bays are in Prince Consort Road and Queen's Gate.

There are coach drop off and pick up areas on Cromwell Road, outside of the V&A and the Natural History Museum.Coaches are permitted to pick up and drop off on Exhibition Road with a 15 minute maximum waiting time that will be stringently enforced.

Click here to see the layout of the road including parking bays, bus stops and cycle parking

Click here if you would like to view the legal Traffic Management Orders for the area

 

South Kensington

To make sure we meet the needs of local residents and businesses as well keeping the area pleasant for pedestrians we have to manage parking and loading properly.

The arrangements in South Kensington are:-

  • Exhibition Road south of Thurloe Place is a Restricted Zone which means parking is prohibited at all times but loading and unloading is allowed
  • the western arm of Thurloe Street is a Pedestrian Zone. Vehicles may not drive into this area unless they are loading and unloading to nearby premises and only between 7am and 10am
  • Exhibition Road between Thurloe Place and Cromwell Road remains part of the Red Route network as before
  • vehicles are prohibited at all times on the paved area on the south side of South Kensington station 

Download the Plan of delivery arrangements [PDF] (file size 175Kb) - showing drivers where they can load and unload