London New Year’s Eve 2025: Information for businesses and residents
If you live or work near London's New Year’s Eve event, access to your home or business may be affected by pedestrian or road restrictions.
These restrictions will be in effect from early afternoon on New Year’s Eve, usually 2pm, until around 6am on New Year's Day.
Sign up for updates to get more information about the restrictions.
If you would like to attend the event, you'll need to buy a ticket. See more about London New Year's Eve 2025.
As soon as the event is finished, we'll start the clean-up process. With the support of Westminster, Lambeth and Southwark Councils, and the City of London, we aim to return event areas to normal by 6am on 1 January.
Pedestrian restrictions
On 31 December, we'll deploy security, stewards and infrastructure to manage the restricted area. Stewards will check zones before closing them. They will ask anyone without a ticket, access wristband or proven right to be there to leave.
It won’t be possible to pass into the restricted area without providing evidence that you have a right to enter that area. You may also need to pass through security checkpoints that carry out bag searches.
Further details will be provided when you sign up for updates.
Vehicle restrictions
Vehicles, including buses, coaches, cars, vans, trucks and bikes, will not be allowed in the restricted event or surrounding areas, and must be parked outside the closed areas. All vehicle parking will be suspended within the event area.
In conjunction with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), vehicle access will be restricted from 2pm on 31 December until around 6am on 1 January.
Roads will be closed between Piccadilly in the north to Lambeth Bridge in the south, and Blackfriars Bridge in the east to Vauxhall Bridge in the west, from early afternoon on New Year’s Eve until around 6am on New Year's Day.
We cannot provide passes for vehicles to enter roads once the closures are in place.
To prepare for the event, localised road closures may also be required in the days leading up to the event. Details of road closures, including a map, will be provided on this page when they are confirmed.
Some roads in central London will remain closed for the London New Year’s Day Parade. Find out more about the New Year’s Day Parade.
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Further information if you live or work in the restricted area
If you live in the restricted area, or you operate a business that's located in the restricted area and will be open on New Year’s Eve – including offices, pubs, restaurants, theatres and hotels – you should sign up using the form.
We'll provide further instructions on how to request access wristbands if you require them.
If you're invited to request access wristbands, you can request them for yourself and your family if you're a resident, and for your staff and guests if you're a business.
Access wristbands are not tickets to the event and are only provided to support you with access to your home or place of work. If you'd like to attend the event, you'll need a ticket. For more information, please visit London New Year's Eve 2025.
Travel in London on New Year's Eve will likely be busier than usual and routes to your home or business may be affected.
When you sign up for more information on the access restrictions, we’ll send you specific guidance on how to access the area where your property or business is located, and recommended routes which you can share with anyone who needs them, such as guests or your staff.
Contact us
If you have questions about the New Year's Eve event, you can contact the Business and Residents Team at [email protected]. For general queries, you can contact the Mayor of London via @LDN_Gov, or via our contact us page.
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