Wembley event day parking
On event days at Wembley Stadium, the streets for a wide radius around the ground are closed to anyone without a permit. This page explains who that applies to, when, and what it costs if you get it wrong.
The short version
On a stadium event day, if you do not hold a valid permit you cannot park in the event day zone. There is no meter, no pay-and-display option and no hourly rate. Parking there without a permit means a penalty charge notice, and your vehicle can be removed.
Why the zone exists
Wembley Stadium holds up to 90,000 people. Without restrictions, a large share of them would park in the residential streets around the ground. The Wembley Stadium Protective Parking Scheme keeps those streets available to the people who live and work in them on event days.
When restrictions apply
Hours vary by street, which is the single most common thing visitors get wrong. As published by Brent Council and checked on 31 July 2026:
| Where | Hours on an event day |
|---|---|
| Main roads to the stadium | 8am to midnight |
| Residential areas outside a CPZ | Generally 10am to midnight |
| Inside the Event Day Protective Parking Scheme CPZs | 8am to midnight |
| Zone SA | 10am to midnight |
| Zone T | 24 hours |
Some bus lanes and controlled parking zones start earlier than the event day restrictions and operate on non-event days too. An event day restriction sits on top of whatever already applies to that street, it does not replace it. Read the signs on the street you are actually parked on.
Brent Council: Wembley event day parking restrictions is the authoritative source for hours and the zone map.
Does this apply on OVO Arena nights?
Probably not, but it is not a formal exclusion
The strongest evidence we have found is the actual legal order behind the scheme. The statutory traffic notice that creates the Wembley event day restrictions is titled "Wembley Stadium Events", and its stated effect is to control parking "when the major event is taking place" at the stadium. Brent's own published list of Wembley event days is also built entirely from Stadium concerts and fixtures; we have not found an Arena-only date listed on it.
That points toward an Arena-only night sitting outside the scheme, but it is not a formal exclusion. An order that names only the stadium is evidence of what it was built for, not a written guarantee that it can never reach anything else. Brent has not published a sentence that settles the question either way, so we are not willing to turn that evidence into a promise. Check before you travel. The council's event days list and its restrictions page are the places to confirm it.
One thing we can tell you: a number of Arena dates fall on the same day as a stadium event, and on those days the stadium restrictions apply regardless of which venue you are going to. Our Arena listing says how many, and the event list marks the dates Brent has publicly named as major event days.
Permits
Permits are for people with a reason to be in the zone, not for visitors to the event. Brent issues four types, applied for through RingGo:
- Resident permit, for people living in the zone.
- Visitor permit, bought by residents for their own visitors.
- Business permit, for businesses operating in the zone.
- Place of worship or school permit, for those institutions in the zone.
Apply for a Brent parking permit (RingGo). If you are attending an event, none of these apply to you, so use public transport or an official car park.
Blue Badge and disabled parking
Two different situations, with two different answers. If you live in the zone, the route is a free resident permit. If you are attending an event, it is a pre-booked accessible space at one of the official car parks. Neither is the same as parking on a residential street under the ordinary Blue Badge rules.
If you live in the zone
Brent issues a free Resident Blue Badge Permit through RingGo: no physical badge display is needed in the car once it is approved. Inside the Wembley Event day zone the qualifying rule is narrower than the rest of Brent. Brent states it directly: you only qualify for the permit if you live within one of twelve specific shared parking bay zones, SA, ST, C, E, E2, W, NE, NC1, NC2, NS, NT and T. Applications are checked and approved within 14 days. Apply for a Resident Blue Badge Permit (RingGo).
If you are attending an event
Wembley Park's official car parks include accessible bays in the Blue and Red car parks, the two nearest the stadium and the Arena, at a reduced per-vehicle rate for car-sized vehicles. These are pre-booked spaces bought through Wembley Official Parking, not free street parking, and they sell out for large events, so book ahead rather than arriving and hoping. Book accessible parking (Wembley Official Parking). More on the other official car parks is below.
What a Blue Badge does not do here
A Blue Badge gives free parking at meters and extra time on single or double yellow lines under the normal London-wide rules. Those concessions apply to ordinary on-street bays, not to the residents-only permit zone that event day restrictions create. If you are hoping to rely on a Blue Badge alone to park on a residential street on an event day, check with Brent Council first rather than assume the badge is enough by itself.
Wembley Park's official car parks
Wembley Park runs five colour-coded car parks around the two venues. They are the only official pre-bookable option if you are driving to an event rather than relying on the train.
| Car park | Where | When it is open |
|---|---|---|
| Pink | Lakeside Way, HA9 0HX. About 6 minutes' walk to the Stadium, 8 to the Arena. | Every day. The largest, with 733 car spaces and 290 coach bays. |
| Red | Closest to the Stadium, about 5 minutes' walk. | Every day. EV charging available. |
| Gold | Next to the London Designer Outlet, off Lakeside Way. | Every day. Mainly shopping and hotel guests. |
| Blue | Near the Stadium and Arena. | Event days only. |
| Green | Near the Stadium and Arena. | Event days only. |
Pink Parking is the one with published pricing: non-event rates start at £2.50 for the first hour, and pre-booked event rates start from £16.25 for an Arena event or £40 for a Stadium event, plus a £2.50 booking fee. The other car parks price per event rather than to a fixed list, and not every car park opens for every event, so treat the table above as a guide to location rather than a guarantee of availability.
Book at Wembley Official Parking. Spaces sell out for large events, so book ahead of the date rather than on the day. None of this affects the event day street restrictions covered above: these are separate, paid, off-street car parks, not a way around the permit zone.
Penalty charges
These are the standard London-wide amounts set by the Mayor of London, not Wembley-specific ones. Effective 7 April 2025, verified directly against Brent Council on 31 July 2026:
| Contravention | Full charge | If paid within 14 days |
|---|---|---|
| Higher band parking | £160 | £80 |
| Lower band parking | £110 | £55 |
| Bus lane and moving traffic | £160 | £80 |
On an event day your vehicle can also be removed, which costs considerably more than the penalty itself and takes hours to resolve. Brent Council: penalty charge amounts.
Private and unadopted roads
Roads that are private or unadopted are not enforced by the council, so a council penalty charge is not the risk there. That does not make them a free car park: the landowner or managing agent may have their own enforcement, including clamping or removal. Residents on private roads inside the area can still buy a permit if they want one.
Motorcycles
Motorcycles park free and without a time limit, unless the specific bay has been suspended. Bay suspensions are common around large events, so check the signage on the bay itself rather than assuming.
If you are attending an event
The realistic options are public transport or a pre-booked space in an official car park. Wembley Park operates 24-hour car parks near both venues which are CCTV-monitored and marshalled on event days, and they sell out for large events, so book ahead. Getting to Wembley covers the transport options.
Before you rely on any of this
Everything above was checked against Brent Council's own pages on 31 July 2026. Rules, hours and penalty amounts change. We are an independent site with no access to council systems, so for anything that could cost you money, confirm it on brent.gov.uk.