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Update from local councillors to residents on planning for Notting Hill Carnival which takes place this weekend.
Brent Council Carnival Information Webpage
Brent’s Brent Council Notting Hill Carnival 2025 webpage is now live - https://www.brent.gov.uk/nottinghillcarnival2025 Please do read and share.
Though the southern part of Brent is not on the formal Carnival route, the Harrow Road corridor will be a much visited location
There have been a series of planning meetings between Brent Council officers, the MP’s office, the metropolitan police and other agencies to learn from previous years’ experience, pass on and seek to alleviate residents’ concerns raised through councillors or by other means and try to ensure that the event is an enjoyable and safe celebration with disruption during and after the event managed as well as is possible.
Carnival begins at 10am on Sunday 24 August and Monday 25 August 2025. The official schedule, including fringe events over the weekend, is on the Notting Hill Carnival https://nhcarnival.org/
The following local arrangements will be in place during the event on Sunday, 24 and Monday, 25 August:
Traffic and Parking: We will have a Traffic Management Order (TMO) in place. There will be no parking or waiting at any time (including in parking bays) on certain roads. The traffic management arrangements are listed here
No parking or waiting (including in parking bays) will be permitted on Sunday 24 and Monday 25 August 2025 in:-
Banister Road;
Chamberlayne Road, between Kilburn Lane and Mortimer Road;
Harrow Road (Kensal Green), between Kilburn Lane and College Road;
Kilburn Lane, the west and north sides, between Harrow Road (Kensal Green) and the south-western arm of Claremont Road;
Mortimer Road, the north side only.
There will also be no waiting (except in parking bays) on Sunday and Monday in: Kilburn Lane, north side, between the south-west arm of Claremont Road and the north-east arm of Claremont Road.
Residents in these streets will be able to park in their neighbouring CPZ, as below and have received letters to this effect:
Mortimer Road residents (KR Zone) and their visitors, will be able to park in KL and KQ zones;
Holders of KC zone permits and their visitors, will be able to park within KL, KR and KQ zones.
Parking enforcement: We will also have additional parking enforcement from 7am to 11pm throughout Carnival in the most affected areas. This will include Harrow Road, Chamberlayne Road, Kilburn Lane, Banister Road and Mortimer Road where parking will be suspended. There will also be additional enforcement in the wider footprint including Kensal Rise, Kensal Green , Harlesden and Queens Park. The dedicated parking enforcement team in the area will include mobile, foot-patrols and tow-trucks.
There will be a road closure and public safety barriers in Harlesden, to prevent members of the public spilling on to the roads.
Policing: Following discussions and concerns raised by councillors, supporting residents’ concerns an increased police presence has been committed including outside the main carnival area. This will include:
BBQ patrols: Police officers, helped by Council officers will ensure the removal of BBQs or sound systems that have been setup outside any permitted area.
Immediate area: Increased Police presence throughout the Notting Hill Carnival weekend.
Harlesden Town Centre: Additional Police resource in Harlesden.
Specialist Licensing Police team available to deal with Licensing contraventions.
Additional Police in Westminster who will support our Brent Policing team where necessary.
CCTV: There will be additional CCTV during Carnival and Brent Council officers, linked to police command, will be monitoring CCTV covering the area around the carnival to ensure resident safety.
Toilets: There will be 15 toilets including disabled access toilets along Harrow Road and Kensal Rose station with directional signage for carnival attendees.
Enforcement patrols will team up with local police officers to ensure compliance, including preventing illegal street trading, barbecues and street parties. They will be out early with the police to prevent barbeques and stalls setting up where these are not permitted.
Noise Nuisance patrols will be available to deal with any complaints. Please encourage residents to use our noise app to let us know about anyone.
Clean up: Brent has planned and booked extra clean up resources to ensure rapid clean-up during and post event, including inspections of our streets before carnival.
A team will clear the streets between Sunday and Monday from 3am and will include mechanical sweepers, physical sweepers and a pickup crew.
The same will apply on Monday night at the end of the event and in the early hours of Tuesday morning the jet washing crew will begin a deeper clean. Note that full cleaning of adjacent streets will be done as soon as possible but may take more than a day.
Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) canisters. Because of the gas in the canisters they have to be cleared separately to other waste. (To avoid the high risk of explosion when crushed.) They will therefore only be collected once other waste is cleared from the streets. If you see these in piles across the area, they are for collection by our waste contractor Veolia. Please bear with the team as they clear the canisters up and please DO NOT add them to other bins.
This and more detailed information on TMOs, parking, safety, cleaning and more can be found here https://www.brent.gov.uk/nottinghillcarnival2025
26 comments:
I note that they have stated that Enforcement will patrol to prevent BBQ's and SOUND SYSTEMS will not be allowed outside the " permitted area" could they please supply a map as to where this PERMITTED AREA is located in BRENT?
Carnival is brilliant - enough of the negativity, bring on the positivity !
Yes Maps please.
Should have it in hyde park instead, rather than have residents be forced to pay £1000s each year to protect their property
Carnival belongs in Ladbroke Grove and surrounding streets; let all the doomsters go and beat themselves up in Hyde Park
And what about the properties around Hyde Park and the wildlife living in Hyde Park?
Concerts in hyde park all summer show a large number of people can be handled well. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
No carnival doesn’t belong on those streets which is why families live in fear of violence, property damage, drug taking etc
Wembley stadium would be the ideal place, with tickets.
Where is my suggestion.. Wembley Stadium is the perfect venue, tickets will generate money to pay for the event, security, music, lighting, costumes. It is only right that no one take# advantage of the tolerant nature of the British.
It would never work in Wembley Stadium - its not big enough. But also the upper levels are too high, a man died recently sliping and falling) and too far from the actual carnival parade.
Carnival attracts over 2 million people over 2 days - how would they all fit into Wembley Stadium which has maximum capacity of 90,000 for health and safety reasons???
All needn't go on the same day. They can have it over a few days at Wembley. A person falling was a tragedy but they wont cordon off that section for future gigs. Two million people itself indicates not a street event. There are big screens at the stadium as with any show we cannot all be at close proximity. Think of the revenue It can generate for organisers, participants and charity.
They could close off Wembley walk too and around it.
And who's gonna pay for all the police, the stewards, the enforcement officers, the extra staff at local stations and all the extra clean up costs over several days???
We already have far too many events at Wembley Stadium badly affecting the lives of local residents.
Leave Notting Hill Carnival in it's traditional home - 60 years there next year - a sanitised version held in a Stadium won't work.
Hyde Park has never handled 2 million people in 2 days!
The whole culture of carnival is that it's free to attend.
Wembley provides jobs to local residents. Which is why there are so many apartment blocks built around the stadium itself.
Majoriy of people living in the tower blocks around Wembley Stadium commute elsewhere for work - they need to so they can earn the high salaries for their rents or mortgages and the high service charges.
And majority of people working at the stadium travel there from other parts of London as they work for events companies throughout the south east of England - we've seen them at events elsewhere and talking to them they work in places like Surrey, Hampshire etc too.
It’s not free, it costs millions to the taxpayers. £12,329,442 in 2023 and £80m over 5 years. How about the people who attend pay for it themselves?
If you start ticketing it you'd have to pay for even more for companies to sell the tickets and for purpose built ticket barriers and security staff to scan all the tickets upon entry.
The notion that Wembley Stadium provides jobs for local residents is a fallacy, the majority of workers are contracted to agencies who supply the workforce on Events days, and come from all over Greater London and beyond. My apologies as this has nothing to do with arrangements for Carnival.
Will be cheaper than now. Perhaps security can cover the event rather than taxpayers
To cover policing and ticketing costs for Notting Hill Carnival, which are around £13.33 million, a small ticket could be introduced. If about 2 million people attending over two days, each ticket would cost around £7. If only 1 million people came because of the cost, each ticket would need to be about £13. This would help pay for safety and event staff while keeping the cost fair and manageable for attendees. So we could round it up to either £10 or £15 and give money to charity.
Why can’t they pay?
move carnival to Hyde Park, run tix, cops and safety sorted, bare cheaper than streets. Mil roll thru weekend, 500k a day, peak 150–250k, park safe still. Policing + tix bout £8 mil, tix £8 if everyone comes, £16 if half roll up. Safe, fair, still vibes heavy.
And who will pay for the security?
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