Hillingdon at top for car parking spaces

Heathrow makes up the bulk of borough’s amenities

A BOROUGH-by-borough breakdown by parking service spacehopper reveals the total number of parking spaces in west London.

Public car parks in the area cover a total area of nearly 3.9sq km – almost three times the size of Hyde Park.

The findings by new parking service spacehopper also reveal car parks in the west of the capital account for nearly half the car parks in London.

The findings show Hillingdon has the most car parking spaces in west London, but this figure is hugely inflated because of Heathrow Airport.

If this was to be taken away from the tables, Brent would top the table Borough/total accredited spaces/total footprint of car parks (sq km)/ total footprint of car parks (sq metres)/equivalent full-size football pitches

Ealing 1,644 Harrow 2,877 K&C 1,969 Westminster 5,177 Brent 8,643 Harrow 3,813 H&F 4,858 Hounslow 5,326 Hillingdon (inc Heathrow) 25,221 Hillingdon (exc Heathrow)3,541 Total 59,528

for parking spaces, but this borough is also home to Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena.

Overall, London’s public car parks cover an area of 8.4sq km, while west London’s coverage is 3.9sq km – equivalent to 550 Old Trafford football pitches.

Spacehopper offers peer-to-peer parking by

0.11 0.19 0.13 0.34 0.57 0.25 0.32 0.35 1.66 0.23 3.93

108,404 189,707 129,835 341,368 569,914 251,427 320,333 351,193 1,663,056 233,491 3,925,236

matching under-used spaces on private driveways with drivers who are looking for somewhere to park.

Director Alex Walker said: “It’s amazing – but not surprising – to think that so much valuable space is taken up by parking spaces in the UK.

“By better utilising the resources we have across

15.2 26.6 18.2 47.8 79.8 35.2 44.9 49.2 232.9 32.7 549.8 the land, we really don’t need to build any more car parks.”

It’s amazing... to think so much valuable space is taken up by parking spaces”