A range of measures to help ease traffic and parking problems will be rolled out in one of the busiest parts of the borough.

Extensions to permit parking schemes and a new one-way system were among the measures agreed by councillors at Finchley and Golders Green Area Committee on Thursday (October 17).

Finchley Church End controlled parking zone (CPZ) will be extended to cover Templars Crescent, Cavendish Avenue, Stanhope Avenue, St Mary’s Avenue and Lyndhurst Gardens.

A new CPZ will also be created to cover Leslie Road and Leopold Road in East Finchley.

CPZs help to prevent commuter parking close to tube stations and other transport hubs by issuing residents with a permit allowing them to park in streets close to their homes.

At Castle Road, North Finchley – where residents raised fears that speeding motorists are putting their children’s safety at risk – council officers will carry out a speed survey to gauge the extent of the problem.

Slow signs will be installed on Arden Road, Finchley Church End, in response to a request from residents fearing speeding and dangerous driving could lead to a “tragic accident”.

A width restriction and parking changes proposed for Somerton Road, Childs Hill, will not go ahead, after 88 per cent of residents who responded to a consultation objected to them.

But the council will investigate other ways of stopping the road from being used as a cut-through by heavy goods vehicles.

A one-way system will be introduced in Churchfield Avenue, North Finchley, in a bid to ease congestion.

Councillors also discussed concerns raised by neighbours on Eversleigh Road, Finchley Central, about their parking spaces being taken up by businesses and commuters.

Residents had called for a CPZ to tackle the problem.

Cllr Ross Houston (Labour), West Finchley, told the committee residential developments such as the one proposed by Transport for London (TfL) at Finchley Central Underground Station were likely to make the problems worse.

TfL wants to build more than 600 flats on the site – and the station’s existing commuter car park could be lost.

Councillors agreed to defer the matter until a meeting in June next year, when the committee will have more funding to help tackle the problems.