Barnet Bus Lane Fines — PCNs, Income & Appeals

Barnet's bus lane enforcement is the A5. Six of the seven rows below sit on the same road as it runs north-west out of London under a different name every mile — Cricklewood Broadway, Edgware Road, West Hendon Broadway, The Hyde, Burnt Oak Broadway — and between them they account for more than nine in ten of the 106,437 penalties issued over the five years. The borough-wide total has barely moved, from 18,564 to 22,060, but the individual cameras have moved a great deal. The Hyde has become the borough's enforcement hotspot: its three cameras issued 6,097 penalties in 2025/26, up from 3,055 two years earlier, and with the junction camera alongside them The Hyde alone accounts for nearly half of everything Barnet issues. Cricklewood Broadway has gone the other way, from 6,653 penalties in 2023/24 to 3,418. The sharpest change is on West Hendon Broadway, where two cameras that issued 3,593 penalties in 2021/22 issued 95 in 2025/26 — the Station Road camera's last recorded penalty was in January 2025 and the Milton Road camera's in October 2025, both after months of single figures. Neither has been switched off: the council's open data still lists both as operating cameras, so the lane is as enforceable as it ever was and the collapse is in what drivers are doing, not in what the council is watching. Running against all of it, the A1000 High Road camera at East Finchley — the only one that is not on the A5 — has gone from 236 penalties in 2021/22 to 2,953 in 2025/26, a twelvefold rise that makes it the borough's fourth busiest camera.

Which cameras issue the most fines

Camera-enforced bus lane locations ranked by PCNs issued in 2025/26. The last column is the 5-year total.

Barnet returned its camera list as 37 rows of plain location names, with the same site appearing more than once under different spellings and casing — one row per camera code in its systems rather than one per place. Two other sources resolve it. The penalty data names twelve distinct cameras, and shows that two of the names ("The Hyde between The Greenway & Annesley Av", with and without the spaces) are one camera renamed in October 2025, where the old name's monthly series stops and the new name's begins at 1. The council's own open data — a CCTV traffic enforcement dataset it updated on 18 August 2026 — independently lists exactly the same twelve, which is as good a cross-check as this site gets. The table groups them by road, because that is the unit a driver can act on, and each row says how many cameras it covers. One camera resists grouping: Barnet records it as "The Hyde / West Hendon Broadway", at the point where one road becomes the other, so it is shown on its own rather than assigned to either. Two roads on the council's camera list issued no penalties in any of the five years and so appear nowhere in the table — Ballards Lane in N3 and High Street in EN5, each covered in both directions. The open data explains why: those four cameras only began enforcing on 1 and 8 June 2026, after the period the figures cover. Both roads now have pages on this site. Two bus lanes this site already covered in Barnet, on Grahame Park Way and Netherlands Road, are absent from both the FOI camera list and the open dataset, so neither is treated as camera-enforced any more.

Challenges & appeals — do they work?

Formal representations to the council. Drivers made 12,440 formal challenges over 5 years.

The council's own figures show the share of challenges upheld went from 54% in 2021/22 to 24% in 2025/26 — so a well-grounded challenge is worth making. Barnet's drivers challenge far more than they used to and win far less. Formal representations rose from 743 in 2021/22 to a peak of 3,406 in 2023/24, while the share the council upheld fell from 54% to 24% over the five years. The 2025/26 figures do not add up to the total received — 570 accepted and 1,470 rejected against 2,383 received — which most likely means the remaining 343 were still open when the council pulled the figures. A challenge is still worth making if you have grounds, but Barnet's recent record is markedly less forgiving than it was, and the council gave no figures at all for appeals that went on to London Tribunals. See our guide to appealing a bus lane PCN for the grounds that win.