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Buy or renew a business parking permit

If your business is based in Islington, you can apply for a business parking permit. You must be occupying the premises for non-residential purposes, and be registered for business rates.

The council will only issue business permits to vehicles that are essential to the running of your business.

From 1 February 2023 you will need to register with your personal, business and vehicle details for any first-time purchases or renewals. Once registered, you can log in to your account to buy any new permits or renew them.

  • You cannot access your current or previous permit details this way. If you want to check or change your current permit details, purchased before 1 February 2023 through My eAccount, please contact  020 7527 1414 or email ParkingPermits@islington.gov.uk.

Buy or renew a business permit

If you find it hard to use the parking portal or are unable to access this online, contact Access Islington on 020 7527 1414 and one of the team will help you set up an account and / or take payment for your permit.

Read the terms and conditions you need to agree to when purchasing or renewing a business permit.

Permit choices 

  • Each business may apply for up to two permits.
  • A permit may have up to three vehicles on it - the permit can only be used for one vehicle at any one time. To park more than one vehicle, you must buy a new business permit from the choices below and pay the extra permit fee.

Annual permit

  • This permit allows all-day parking in any available business or shared use parking bay within your Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) only.
  • Annual permits price depends on how many vehicles a business uses and the highest vehicle emissions (or largest battery size ,if electric) from their fleet.

Petrol vehicles

Business parking permit bands Emissions (CO2 g/km) One-year permit price
1 1-120 £900
2 121-140 £950
3 141-165 £1,000
4 166-185 £1,500
5 186-225 £1,600
6 226-255 £1,700
7 256 and above £1,800

Diesel vehicles

Business parking permit bands Emissions (CO2 g/km)  One-year permit price
1 1-120 £1,060
2 121-140 £1,110
3 141-165 £1,160
4 166-185 £1,660
5 186-225 £1,760
6 226-255 £1,860
7 256 and above £1,960

Electric vehicles

Business parking permit bands Battery size (kwh)  One-year permit price 
1 1-39 £700
2 40-49 £750
3 50-59 £800
4 60-69 £850
5 70-79 £900
6 80-89 £950
7 90 and above £1,000

Your vehicle emissions are detailed in your V5 vehicle document. Find your vehicle emissions online.

Buy or renew an annual permit

Adding more parking permits to your business

A permit may have up to three vehicles on it. The permit can only be used for one vehicle to park on the street. If your business must have more than one vehicle parked on the street, you will need to buy a new permit for each vehicle and pay an additional vehicle permit fee.

Additional parking permits for your business Fee for additional parking permits 
Second business permit £100
Third business permit £200
Fourth business permit £300
Fifth business permit £400
Sixth (and above) business permit £500
 

Universal permit  

  • This permit allows parking in resident, short stay, and shared use bays anywhere in Islington.

Petrol vehicles

Business parking permit bands Emissions (CO2 g/km) One-year permit price
1 1-120 £3,250
2 121-140 £3,350
3 141-165
 £3,450
4 166-185
 £3,550
5 186-225
 £3,650
6 226-255
 £3,800
7 256 and above £4,000

Diesel vehicles

Business parking permit bands Emissions (CO2 g/km) One-year permit price
1 1-120
 £3,410
2 121-140 £3,510
3 141-165
 £3,610
4 166-185 £3,710
5 186-225
 £3,810
6 226-255 £3,960
7 256 and above £4,160

Electric vehicles

Business parking permit bands Battery size (kwh) One-year permit price 
1 1-39 £3,000
2 40-49 £3,100
3 50-59 £3,250
4 60-69 £3,300
5 70-79 £3,350
6 80-89 £3,400
7 90 and above £3,500
  • This permit may have up to three vehicles on it. The permit can only be used for one vehicle at any one time. 

Buy or renew a universal permit

Annual permit with vouchers

  • This permit allows limited stay parking in any available business/shared use parking bay within your CPZ.
  • The permit must be displayed with its vouchers.
  • You can purchase an unlimited number of vouchers but vouchers can only be displayed for up to a maximum of three hours at any one time.
  • Permit cost: £25.50
  • Voucher price: £17.04 per book of 20 half-hour units

This permit may have up to three vehicles on it - the permit can only be used for one vehicle at any time.

Buy or renew an annual permit with vouchers

Business visitor vouchers

Business visitor vouchers allow parking in business and business/shared use bays in the controlled parking zone your business is located.

  • Businesses registered in Islington can purchase up to 200 hours of visitor vouchers per year
  • Voucher price: £73.44 per book of 20 x 1-hour units

Buy business visitor vouchers

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