Essential service parking permits

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About Essential service parking permits

The essential service parking permits are available at a cost to public or commercial sector departments that need to make professional visits to households or properties within a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ).

These permits will enable you to be able to park your vehicle in a resident permit holders, permit holders or in any 'permit holders past this point' area within the controlled hours.

Signs on the street will give more information about the zone and its operating hours.

The permits are valid for a full day.

The essential service parking permits are printed scratch card permits (vouchers) which must be displayed as per the terms and conditions of use.

If you opt for the permits to be posted out to the desired address then you should allow at least 5 working days for your printed permits to arrive once you have completed your order. The permits are posted via the Royal Mail recorded delivery service, which means that someone must be able to sign for them. 

We will not replace permits which are lost in the post but can assist customers to locate orders by providing the Royal Mail tracking information.  

If you opt for the permits to be collected from our postal depot based at the following address: Barnet Council, Unit 25 Capitol Industrial Park, Capitol Way London NW9 0EQ. The opening hours 8.30am – 4.30pm. When they are ready for collection we will send you an email to notify you.

Who can get Essential service parking permits

Public Sector (Non-Commercial)

  • Local Authority Services
  • Street Trading
  • Food Safety Control
  • Building control
  • Nuisance Control
  • Pest Control
  • Clinical Waste Collection
  • Council Fraud Investigation
  • Social Services Homecare (not contractors)
  • Social Services Occupational Therapy
  • Child protection unit
  • Waste Management Inspection / Enforcement
  • Town Planning Enforcement

Adolescent Resource Team

  • Children Services
  • Social Services Assessment / Placement

National Health Service

  • Health Visiting Occupational Therapy Service
  • District / Community Nursing / Midwifery

Other Service Providers

  • Charities / not-for-profit organisations
  • Social / Non-commercial Service Provider (not contractors)
  • Social Housing Management (not contractors)
  • Residential / Community Care Management (not contractors)

This is not an exclusive list of essential users

Apply for Essential service parking permits

To apply for the essential service parking permits you will need:

  • proof on headed paper that your are employed by a public or commercial sector department that needs to make professional visits to households or properties within a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ).
  • or provide documentary evidence that you spend 30% or more of your working week out in the community (must be signed by the Head of Service)
  • a valid email address
  • your credit or debit card details, we do not accept AMEX

Anyone wishing to apply for an essential permit that is not detailed above may apply at the discretion of the Director of Environment and Operations. However, in order for your application to be considered, the applicant must provide documentary evidence that they spend 30% or more of their working week out in the community. This application must be supported by the applicant's Head of Service.

If you would like to apply for essential service parking permits please email us parking.clientteam@barnet.gov.uk 

Costs

Essential service parking permits cost £3.10 each. The minimum order is 100 permits (in multiples of 100).

We accept card payments and payment via invoice.

Please be advised that the NSL Apply parking permit system may send a request to authenticate your payment, for example via your banking app. Therefore, it is important that this authentication is completed to ensure that you successfully complete the purchase of your parking permit.

Payment Methods

Pay Now

If this payment method is selected at the point of a new parking permit application. A pop up window will appear prompting you to manually enter the card payment details and submit the payment at that point. For any future changes of vehicle on that given parking permit application where a surcharge is automatically generated. This amount will automatically be debited from the card used for the initial payment. You will not receive any pre-notification of this by email.

Online After Approval

If this payment method is selected at the point of a new parking permit application. You will not be prompted to enter any card payment details. Instead, after submitting the parking permit application, you will receive an email to notify you that the application (once approved) is ‘waiting for payment’. You will then be prompted to log into your NSL Apply Parking Permit account to make a payment to activate the permit.

Use Registered Card

You can register a payment card in the ‘manage account’ section of your NSL Apply Parking Permit account. If this payment method is selected at the point of a new permit application, this means that the payment will be taken from the registered card (providing the card has sufficient funds and has not expired). For any future changes of vehicle on that given parking permit application where a surcharge is automatically generated. This amount will automatically be debited from the registered card. You will not receive any pre-notification of this by email.

Terms and conditions of use

  1. The essential service voucher only allows you to park in a 'Resident Permit Holders Only or 'Permit Holders Only' parking place during the controlled hours.
  2. The essential service voucher does not allow you to park in 'Business Permit Holders Only' parking places, Pay and Display bays, yellow lines, on the footway, on a red route or exempt you from any other parking restriction. The voucher is not valid if your vehicle is seen parked within 50 metres of your place of work.
  3. The issue of an essential service voucher does not guarantee the availability of a parking space nor does it render the council subject to any liability in respect of loss or damage to the vehicle in a parking place or the contents or fittings of the vehicle.
  4. The voucher must be displayed in the window nearest the kerb or on the front windscreen so that the details are clearly visible from outside the vehicle.
  5. Essential service vouchers are only valid if completed and displayed as described on the front of the voucher. They can only be used on the date for which it is validated.
  6. Parking places may be suspended by any person duly authorised by the council or police. An essential service voucher is not valid in a parking place where signs indicate it is suspended.
  7. It is prohibited to use a vehicle in a parking place in connection with the sale or offering or exposing for sale of goods.
  8. Vouchers are issued to organisations and departments on the understanding that they control the issue of vouchers to staff, and keep records of issue and use. Such records must include the date and location(s) where the vouchers were used and the registration number of the vehicle concerned. The council reserves the right to inspect such records, and if 200 vouchers have been provided in one year copies of the records of issue and use will be required before provision of further vouchers is authorised.
  9. The council may suspend the issue of vouchers to an organisation or department if it believes they are being misused. Examples of misuse are: using the voucher to park at a station for commuting purposes or using the voucher for the purpose of shopping in the borough. This permit can only be used in conjunction with duties related to the role that qualified the holder for the permit.
  10. A goods vehicle with an overall height greater than 2.3 metres may not make use of a parking place during controlled hours.