Harrow Roadworks This Week: Cavendish Avenue, Chandos Road

This is our running guide to Harrow roadworks, kept in one place: what is closed right now, what is coming, which roads are on this year’s resurfacing list, what station and town-centre parking costs, and the rules, from the one-hour free parking deal to the ULEZ, that decide what driving here actually costs.

Behind all of it is the biggest repair programme the borough has run in years: £42 million on roads and footpaths between 2025 and 2028, covering full resurfacing, pavement repairs, patching and a rapid-response pothole squad (Harrow Council).

Closed right now

Checked Sunday 27 September 2026 against the statutory notices and TfL’s own status data. All of the road closures are made under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

The one to know about is Cavendish Avenue, at its junction with Wood End Road. It is still the borough’s longest closure. It shut on 7 September for Cadent Gas, and the council anticipates the work running to 23 October, about seven weeks. Waiting and loading are banned on Cavendish Avenue while the signs are up. The signed diversions:

• Northbound: Wood End Road, South Vale and Greenford Road.
• Southbound: Wood End Road, Wood End Gardens, Wood End Lane, Whitton Avenue West and Greenford Road.

That is the order dated 17 August 2026 (the notice).

Chandos Road is the new one this week. It is shut at its junction with Beresford Road for UK Power Networks. The Harrow (Chandos Road) Temporary Traffic Order 2026 became operational on 25 September, and the council anticipates the work complete by 5 October. Diversion via Beresford Road, Grafton Road and Pinner View (order dated 14 September 2026).

The rest of what is shut today:

• Abbotsbury Gardens, Pinner, at Field End Road, for Cadent Gas. This is Hillingdon’s order, and it gives hard times rather than an anticipated date: 08:00 on 21 September to 17:00 on 4 October, though Hillingdon expected the work done within 10 days. Diversion via Rushdene Road, Deane Croft Road and Field End Road (order dated 26 August 2026).
• Risingholme Road, Harrow Weald, at its junction with High Road, for Thames Water. The council anticipated it complete on 27 September, so today should be the last day. Northbound diversion via High Road, The Meadow Way and The Greenway; southbound via High Road, Spencer Road, The Cross Way and The Greenway (order dated 7 September 2026).
• The M1 southbound, between Junction 6a and Junction 5, closed overnight 21:00 to 06:00 while National Highways resurfaces it. The work was due to start on 26 September and last about two weeks. This is in Hertfordshire, not Harrow: the closed stretch runs from the M25 down to the A41 at Watford, roughly six miles north of Stanmore, and it is the way home for anyone driving back into Harrow from the north late at night. Traffic already on the M1 is diverted anticlockwise on the M25 to Junction 20, then east on the A41 to M1 Junction 5 (National Highways notice, reference NH/SE/2026/M1/72).

Harrow’s orders carry two dates: a legal duration, usually 18 consecutive months, and an “anticipated complete by” date that is often only days after the start. The anticipated date is the one that tells you anything. Treat the road as open once the signs come down.

No new Harrow closure orders this week. The council’s temporary orders appear in the local paper’s statutory notices, usually in a weekly batch. The batch published on 24 September carried orders from Brent, Barnet and Hillingdon but none from Harrow, so the resurfacing run has no new order after No. 20. We will add the next one as soon as it is published.

Coming in the next few weeks

• The Close, Pinner, at Mayfly Close, for Affinity Water, 08:00 on Tuesday 29 September to 17:00 on Thursday 1 October, anticipated within three days. Access only, with no diversion. Hillingdon’s order (dated 12 August 2026).
• Hillside Avenue, just over the border in Brent, between No. 29 and Nos. 36 and 37, for an electrical connection, 5 to 9 October, 8am to 6pm. Brent has proposed this one rather than made it, and traffic follows the signs (Brent’s notice, dated 24 September 2026).

Trains and Tube this week

The Piccadilly line is shut between Cockfosters and Uxbridge all day today, Sunday 27 September. Trains still run between Acton Town and Heathrow. TfL lists the closure as ending at 03:15 on Monday 28 September, so the Monday morning service runs as normal (TfL line status, checked 27 September).

• South Harrow has no Tube today. It is served by the Piccadilly and nothing else.
• Rayners Lane keeps trains, because the Metropolitan also calls there. TfL is pointing Uxbridge-bound passengers at the Metropolitan from Rayners Lane.

Two other things touch Harrow in the next fortnight, from TfL’s forward status data for 27 September to 11 October:

• The Lioness line has no service between Kilburn High Road and Euston today until 12:00 and again from 20:30. Trains still run from Harrow & Wealdstone, Kenton, South Kenton, Headstone Lane and Hatch End towards Kilburn High Road; change there for the rest of the trip.
• The Jubilee line closes between Green Park and Canary Wharf on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 October, with wider early-morning closures between Finchley Road and Stratford. Stanmore and Canons Park keep their trains into central London as far as Green Park.

The Bakerloo and the Metropolitan show nothing planned in that window. London Northwestern Railway’s engineering-works pages have been unreachable for us for four weeks, so main line calls at Harrow & Wealdstone are not confirmed here; check with the operator before you travel.

What has just ended

Closures this page carried earlier that have now finished:

• Rayners Lane, between The Gardens and Lincoln Road, with Suffolk Road, Church Avenue and Whittington Way at their junctions. Resurfacing No. 20 closed them overnight on 23, 24 and 25 September, anticipated complete by 26 September (the notice).
• Malvern Avenue, Merlins Avenue and the Alexandra Avenue service road (Resurfacing No. 19), and Whitmore Road with Drury Road (Resurfacing No. 18), all anticipated complete on 24 September.
• Marsh Lane service road, Stanmore, outside No. 136, for Affinity Water, anticipated complete on 23 September.
• The Juxon Close 20mph proposal. The window for objections to taking the 20mph limit off Juxon Close, Harrow Weald, closed at 23:59 on 23 September (reference 26-25 NS). We will report whether the council makes the change.
• The Oxhey Grange footbridge lift on Sunday 20 September, which shut the West Coast Main Line and the Lioness line north of Harrow. We set out what each Harrow station had that day.
• Earlier in September: Kenton Gardens, Love Lane in Pinner, Spencer Road in Wealdstone, Lynwood Close, Glebe Crescent, Chicheley Road, Chicheley Gardens and Hutton Walk in Harrow Weald, Havelock Road, Dennis Lane in Stanmore, Oak Grove in Ruislip, Briants Close, Uxbridge Road at Hatch End, Elizabeth Gardens in Stanmore and Carmelite Road in Harrow Weald, plus the Station Road, Hindes Road, Hamilton Road and Nibthwaite Road closures for the Shri Sithvinayagar Chariot Festival on 6 September.

New Blue Badge bay hours in the town centre

A change that came into force on 24 August 2026 and is easy to be caught by. Harrow Council has extended the controlled hours on two sets of disabled bays in the town centre, and added a four-hour no-return period to both (The Harrow (Free Parking Places) (Disabled Persons) (Non-residential) (Amendment No. 10) Traffic Order 2026, made 19 August 2026).

• Six bays on the north side of College Road, outside Nos. 4 to 30. Hours go from Monday to Saturday 8am to 6.30pm and Sunday 10am to 6pm, to Monday to Sunday, 8am to 8pm.
• Eight perpendicular bays in the service road off Greenhill Way, opposite the rear of Nos. 16 to 24 St Ann’s Road. Hours go from Monday to Saturday 8am to 6.30pm to Monday to Sunday, 8am to 8pm.

The bays themselves are unchanged in size and maximum stay. The new part is the four-hour no-return, so a Blue Badge holder who uses a full stay cannot come straight back to the same bay. A separate order made the same day removes disabled bays elsewhere in the borough that the council says are no longer needed, and designates new ones; the schedules of streets are held with the order. Copies of both can be inspected at Greenhill Library, Perceval Square, until six weeks from 19 August 2026, and a challenge to their validity has to go to the High Court inside the same six weeks.

The Piccadilly line closures that hit Harrow next

Roadworks are not the only thing to plan around. TfL is rebuilding the Piccadilly line for new trains and taking it out in stages through to November. Two Harrow stations sit on it: South Harrow, which has no other line at all, and Rayners Lane, which keeps the Metropolitan.

These are the dates left on TfL’s published closure calendar (Piccadilly line upgrade):

• Friday 16 October, Night Tube, to Sunday 18 October: Hammersmith to Heathrow and Uxbridge.
• Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 October: Cockfosters to Uxbridge.
• Friday 30 October, Night Tube, to Sunday 1 November: no service on the whole line.
• Friday 20 November, Night Tube, to Sunday 22 November: Hammersmith to Heathrow and Uxbridge.

We have set out what to use instead on each of those dates.

The next one to plan around is the end of October. The Piccadilly is out between Cockfosters and Uxbridge on Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 October, and then off entirely from Night Tube on Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November. South Harrow has no Tube on any of those days.

Checking what is dug up today

The council’s official live map for roadworks is One Network, which shows locations, dates and who is responsible; the council cautions it may miss emergency or short-notice jobs (roadworks in Harrow). Most street works in the borough are not the council’s own: they are utility jobs under the London Permit Scheme, and the council names the usual suspects, UK Power Networks for electricity, Affinity Water for water and Cadent Gas for gas, with Openreach and Virgin Media on the cables. That shows in the orders above: UK Power Networks has the Chandos Road closure, Cadent Gas holds the seven-week one on Cavendish Avenue and the Abbotsbury Gardens job, Thames Water and Affinity Water take the short ones, and the council’s own resurfacing contractor does the rest. The council posts the notices it has made on its traffic management orders page, although the temporary closures on it run badly behind. Checked again on 27 September 2026, it still listed six temporary orders and nothing newer than the Kenton Road one, dated 27 February 2026 and anticipated complete by 22 June, alongside a January tree-pollarding order for Bowen Road, Sumner Road, Heath Road, Merivale Road and Lance Road, carried out in February. The cleanest measure of the gap is the order numbers: the newest resurfacing order on the council page is still No. 6, while the statutory notices are now at No. 20. Not one of the closures above appears on it. The permanent orders on the same page are current, and the Juxon Close notice is there; it is the temporary closures that lag. The statutory notices are the firmer record.

This year’s resurfacing list

The council publishes the roads it plans to resurface or patch this year, ward by ward (the full list). The ones drivers will notice most:

• Station Road between St Johns Road and Gayton Road, the town centre’s spine.
• Pinner Road from Station Road to Westmoreland Road in North Harrow, plus the Rayners Lane Roundabout at Whittington Way and Suffolk Road.
• Uxbridge Road at the Clamp Hill Roundabout and Kenton Lane in Harrow Weald.
• In Stanmore, The Broadway and Marsh Lane junction, Stanmore Hill and Gordon Avenue.
• Honeypot Lane (Orchard Grove to Ruskin Gardens) and Whitchurch Lane on the Canons side.
• In Pinner, Waxwell Lane and Love Lane; in South Harrow and Roxbourne, Kings Road and Malvern Avenue; Christchurch Avenue outside the leisure centre in Wealdstone.

No works are planned this year in Belmont, Kenton West or Roxeth wards. Beyond resurfacing, the pipeline includes signal improvements at North Harrow’s three main junctions (currently in traffic modelling with TfL), a new zebra crossing on Porlock Avenue by Whitmore High School, and fresh 20mph zones around Northumberland Road, Manor Way, Radnor Road and Sandringham Crescent (current transport projects).

Who runs Harrow’s roads

A quirk worth knowing: Harrow has no TfL red routes. TfL’s road network list contains none of the borough’s A-roads, so the A404 (Pinner Road, George V Avenue, Watford Road), the A409 through Wealdstone and Harrow Weald, the A410 through Stanmore, the A4005 (Greenhill Way, Sudbury Hill), the A4006 Kenton Road and the A312 Northolt Road are all borough roads, maintained by Harrow Council (TfL: what we do on roads). Report a pothole to the council, not TfL, wherever you find it in Harrow.

The borough does have a red route of its own, though. Harrow made one in Rayners Lane town centre, covering parts of Rayners Lane, Alexandra Avenue and Village Way East, and ran it as a six-month experiment from 24 November 2025 to 20 May 2026. Double parking fell by more than 80% on Fridays and Sundays, and Cabinet agreed on 24 September to make it permanent, with changes to loading bay hours, a reinstated taxi bay outside Rayners Lane station and better pick-up and drop-off space on nearby streets. The decision can still be called in until 2 October (Cabinet decision). We have set out the numbers behind it.

Parking at the stations

The Tube station car parks in Harrow are run by Saba Parking for TfL: ANPR-controlled, open 24/7, payable by machine or PayByPhone, with Blue Badge spaces free. The weekday prices, from Saba’s live tariff pages:

The detail per site, each from its Saba tariff page: Stanmore (London Road, 461 spaces) £12 weekdays, £11 weekends, seasons from £66 a week; Canons Park (159 spaces) £9.50/£7.70; Harrow & Wealdstone Station Side (61 spaces) £9.50/£6.70; Harrow on the Hill Surface (90 spaces) £8.50/£6.30, £2,112 a year; Rayners Lane (135 spaces) £7.40/£6.30, the cheapest annual season at £1,920. Saba also lists car parks at South Harrow, Queensbury and Hatch End. Once parked, the trains take over: 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone.

Parking in the town centres

The council’s two big Harrow town centre car parks are Queens House Multi-Storey (450 spaces, first hour free then £1.70 an hour, £6.50 all day on weekdays, £3.80 at weekends, open 7am to 8pm Monday to Saturday) and Greenhill Way (209 spaces, £1.70 an hour, charges at all times), with Chapel Lane and Love Lane covering Pinner and Peel House and Palmerston Road covering Wealdstone (council car parks). Tariffs are set through to 31 March 2027.

The rule that saves regulars real money: parking is free for up to one hour, once per day, in on-street bays and most council car parks, but only if you start a PayByPhone session; park without registering and the free hour does not apply, and you risk a ticket. After the free hour, on-street rates run £1.10 an hour in Local zones, £1.50 in District zones, £2.20 in the Major zone at Edgware and £3.30 in the Metropolitan zone covering Harrow town centre, under the tariff that took effect on 1 July 2026 (the council’s street-by-street tariff list). The car parks page above still quotes the older £1.05 to £3.15 range. Blue Badge holders park free in all council spaces.

Living on a restricted street means a controlled parking zone permit: Harrow’s resident permits are virtual, enforced by ANPR, and priced by your car’s emissions (resident permits). The council’s address lookup shows whether a CPZ covers your street and its hours.

The ULEZ covers all of Harrow

Since the London-wide expansion on 29 August 2023, the entire borough sits inside the Ultra Low Emission Zone, which runs 24 hours a day, every day except Christmas Day. Petrol cars generally need to meet Euro 4 and diesels Euro 6; a non-compliant car pays £12.50 a day (TfL ULEZ). The zone stops at the M25, and the motorway itself is not inside it. Check any plate on TfL’s vehicle checker before assuming either way.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I see live roadworks in Harrow?

On One Network, the live map Harrow Council points residents to for locations, dates and responsibility. Emergency and short-notice works can be missing, so treat it as a guide rather than a guarantee. The statutory notices the council has to advertise are the firmer record, because they carry the exact extent, the dates and the signed diversion.

What roads are closed in Harrow right now?

As of Sunday 27 September 2026: Cavendish Avenue is shut at Wood End Road to an anticipated 23 October, and Chandos Road at Beresford Road to an anticipated 5 October. Abbotsbury Gardens in Pinner, on Hillingdon’s order, runs to 4 October, and Risingholme Road in Harrow Weald should reopen after today. The overnight Rayners Lane resurfacing closures ended on 26 September, as did the Malvern Avenue and Whitmore Road jobs.

Is the Tube running in Harrow this weekend?

Everywhere except the Piccadilly line. All day on Sunday 27 September there is no Piccadilly service between Cockfosters and Uxbridge, so South Harrow has no Tube at all and Rayners Lane runs on the Metropolitan only. The Lioness line is also shut between Kilburn High Road and Euston until 12:00 and from 20:30. Next weekend, 3 and 4 October, the Jubilee closes between Green Park and Canary Wharf; Stanmore and Canons Park still run to Green Park.

Which Harrow roads are being resurfaced this year?

The council’s ward-by-ward list includes Station Road, Pinner Road, the Rayners Lane Roundabout, Stanmore Hill, The Broadway/Marsh Lane junction, Honeypot Lane, Kings Road and Christchurch Avenue, among others; Belmont, Kenton West and Roxeth have no planned works this year. The full list is on harrow.gov.uk.

Who fixes potholes in Harrow?

Harrow Council, on every road in the borough: none of Harrow’s A-roads are TfL red routes. Reports go through the council’s online form, with a pothole squad funded by the £42 million 2025-2028 programme.

What is the longest road closure coming up in Harrow?

Cavendish Avenue, at its junction with Wood End Road. It closed on 7 September for Cadent Gas, and the council anticipates the work running until 23 October, about seven weeks. Waiting and loading are banned on the road while it is signed.

How much is parking at Stanmore station?

£12 a day on weekdays, £11 at weekends, in the 461-space Saba-run car park at the top of the Jubilee line, with monthly seasons at £264. Rayners Lane is the borough’s cheapest station parking at £7.40 a day.

Is parking free in Harrow?

For one hour, once a day, in on-street bays and most council car parks, but only with an active PayByPhone session. After that, on-street charges start at £1.10 an hour and reach £3.30 in Harrow town centre. Queens House Multi-Storey adds a free first hour and a £6.50 weekday daily rate.

Have the Blue Badge bays in Harrow town centre changed?

Yes. From 24 August 2026, six bays on the north side of College Road and eight in the service road off Greenhill Way run Monday to Sunday, 8am to 8pm, instead of stopping at 6.30pm on weekdays. A four-hour no-return period now applies to both sets. The bays and maximum stay are unchanged.

Do I have to pay the ULEZ in Harrow?

Only if your vehicle is non-compliant: the whole borough has been inside the ULEZ since 29 August 2023, at £12.50 a day for cars that miss the emissions standards. Most petrol cars from about 2006 and diesels from about September 2015 are compliant; check your plate on TfL’s site.

Sources

• Harrow Council: maintaining Harrow’s roads and footpaths (£42m programme) and this year’s resurfacing list.
• Harrow Council: roadworks in Harrow (live map referral, utility contacts) and traffic management orders.
• Harrow Council: current transport projects (North Harrow junctions, 20mph zones).
• TfL: what we do on roads (red routes vs borough roads).
• Saba Parking tariff pages for each station car park’s prices and spaces.
• Harrow Council: car parks and street parking, controlled parking zones and resident permits.
• TfL: Ultra Low Emission Zone and the 2023 expansion.
• Harrow Council: on-street pay and display tariffs from 1 July 2026, the street-by-street list behind the hourly rates.
• Statutory temporary traffic orders for the Cavendish Avenue, Chandos Road, Risingholme Road and Marsh Lane closures, Carriageway Resurfacing No. 18 (Whitmore Road, Drury Road, and the finished Lynwood Close and Glebe Crescent), No. 19 (Malvern Avenue, Merlins Avenue, Alexandra Avenue service road) and No. 20 (Rayners Lane, Suffolk Road, Church Avenue, Whittington Way), the Abbotsbury Gardens and The Close orders made by Hillingdon Council, Brent’s Hillside Avenue notice, the National Highways M1 order, the Juxon Close 20mph proposal and the College Road disabled bay order, all published on the Public Notice Portal and re-read there on 27 September 2026.
• Network Rail: West Coast Main Line to close between London Euston and Watford due to emergency bridge work, 4 September 2026, for the 20 September bridge lift that has now happened, and TfL’s own line data for which Harrow stations the Lioness and Bakerloo serve.
• Harrow Council: Outcome of the Six Month Experimental Traffic Order Trial, for the Rayners Lane red route and its double-parking monitoring, and the Cabinet decision of 24 September 2026 making it permanent.
• TfL: Piccadilly line upgrade for the line closure dates, and TfL’s line status for the planned-work wording, checked 27 September 2026 across the 27 September to 11 October window.

Works schedules, tariffs and orders change; the linked council, TfL and Saba pages are the live versions to check before you travel. Closures, traffic orders and Tube closures last checked 27 September 2026; on-street parking tariffs checked 6 September 2026; station car park prices and the resurfacing list last checked 8 August 2026. London Northwestern Railway’s engineering-works pages could not be reached again, so main line calls at Harrow & Wealdstone are not confirmed here.