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Yes, Yikes Car Wash now covers the whole of Southwark, from Bankside and London Bridge down through Bermondsey, Elephant, Camberwell and Peckham to Dulwich. A vetted local washer from the Yikes Network comes to your car on the street, on an estate or in your building's car park, with their own water, power and kit. Book online and pick a two-hour window.
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Southwark is car-light, and getting lighter. The council says most households in the borough do not have a car, and its own estimate is that 92 percent of properties have no off-street parking. New development on the Old Kent Road is planned car free, with walking, cycling, buses and cargo bikes favoured instead. So the cars that are here live on the street, in an estate bay or in a building's car park, which is exactly where a wash that comes to you does its work.
It is also a borough of trees. In 2024 Southwark said it had become the first inner London borough with 100,000 trees. Lovely for the streets, harder on a parked car: every autumn the council adds street cleaners for six weeks and collects around 1,200 tonnes of leaves, and warns that a cleared road can be covered again within hours.
You do not need to buy a permit for us: your washer sorts their own parking. But Southwark's zones are worth knowing, because they vary wildly. There are around 30 of them, covering about 60 percent of the borough, and Southwark says that outside a zone's hours nobody needs a permit and visitors park free.
Zones change through new traffic orders, so the sign at your bay is always the final word.
Southwark closes roads outside many schools at drop-off and pick-up, some of them enforced by cameras. Cars already parked inside a School Street before it starts can drive out without a penalty, and residents in camera-enforced streets may get a free access permit. Our windows start at 10am, after the morning closures, and a midday window keeps clear of the afternoon ones.
The north of the borough is the busiest. Borough Market has traded on its site off Borough High Street since 1756 and is run as a charity, opening Tuesday to Sunday. In Bermondsey, Maltby Street Market runs on Ropewalk at weekends. Zones here run late, so a car that stays parked is a car you do not have to move for us.
Elephant has changed enormously. The Heygate estate came down in 2014 and Elephant Park, the council's new park, is now open among thousands of new homes. The old shopping centre was demolished in 2021 for a new town centre, The Elephant, with homes, shops and a five-screen cinema, and the shell of a new Northern line ticket hall has been built. Next door, Burgess Park is the council's largest park, with a lake, a BMX track and tennis courts.
Camberwell's zones run weekdays only, so weekends are control-free. Peckham has its own page, with every zone and its hours. In Nunhead, the cemetery is one of London's Magnificent Seven, and the Friends run a tour on the last Sunday of each month.
The south of the borough is greener, with Dulwich Park, opened in 1890, at its heart, and very short zone hours in North Dulwich and Dulwich Village. If your car sits on a drive, we are just as happy washing there.
On the river, Canada Water is being rebuilt as a new town centre and the parking zones there are weekday-only. It has its own page too.
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From London's best-known food market to one of its great Victorian cemeteries, these are the places Southwark locals use and love.
On its present site off Borough High Street since local parishioners moved it there in 1756, and run as a charity by volunteer trustees. Open Tuesday to Sunday.
Source: Borough Market: history
About 56 hectares on Albany Road, the council's largest park, open at all times, with a lake, a national-standard BMX track, seven tennis courts and two full-size pitches.
Source: Southwark Council: Burgess Park
Opened in June 1890 on land given by the Dulwich estate governors. Queen Mary was a regular visitor, and a gate is named after her.
Source: Southwark Council: Dulwich Park
One of London's Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries. The Friends run a tour from the Linden Grove gates at 2pm on the last Sunday of the month.
Source: Friends of Nunhead Cemetery
Built where the Heygate estate stood, and described by the council as central London's first major new park in decades.
Weekend food stalls on Ropewalk in Bermondsey, listed by the council for Saturdays and Sundays.
Southwark had 307,600 residents at the 2021 Census, up from 288,300 in 2011, and it is young: the average age of 32.4 is more than two years below London's. It is diverse too, with just over half of residents White and a quarter Black, Black British, Caribbean or African. Homes run from riverside flats and estates to Dulwich's quieter streets.
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Updated 22 October 2026
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