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Getting here

Canary Wharf is easily accessible via its many transport connections

Opening Hours:

  • Monday – Friday 10am–8pm
  • Saturday 10am–7pm
  • Sunday 12noon–6pm
  • Bank Holidays 11am-6pm.

These are the core opening hours of Canary Wharf’s malls however, there are exceptions please enquire with individual shops, cafes, bars and restaurants for their hours.

Transport Links

Jubilee line, docklands light railway, elizabeth line, pedestrian and cycle routes, e-scooter hire.

The Canary Wharf Jubilee line station provides swift connections with travel times of:

  • London Bridge, 7 minutes
  • Waterloo, 11 minutes
  • Westminster, 13 minutes
  • Green Park, 15 minutes
  • Bond Street, 17 minutes
  • Baker Street, 20 minutes

The Jubilee Line has interchanges with all other London Underground lines.

It also connects with mainline railways at Canada Water (London Overground), West Hampstead (Thameslink), Waterloo (South West Trains, Great Western Railway), London Bridge (Southern, Southeastern and Thameslink), West Ham (c2c), Stratford (Eurostar, Greater Anglia, and London Overground).

For 24 hour travel information, contact London Transport on 020 7222 1234 or visit www.tfl.gov.uk

Click here for further information about London Underground

There are two Docklands Light Railway (DLR) stations on the Estate; Canary Wharf and Heron Quays.

The DLR network runs from the Canary Wharf, Heron Quays, West India Quay and South Quay to Bank in the heart of the City of London, Tower Gateway, Stratford, Beckton, Woolwich Arsenal and Lewisham.  

Travel times:

  • Bank, 11 minutes
  • Tower Gateway, 11 minutes
  • Stratford, 12 minutes

Click here for further information about the DLR

Canary Wharf has 6,000 car parking spaces of which 2,500 are in public car parks. Canary Wharf also provides pedal and motorcycle parking at several locations.

Canary Wharf has four underground public car parks, three of which lead directly into Cabot, Canada and Jubilee Place shopping malls.

  • Cabot Square Car Park: Entrance on Cooks Close (use E14 4AP for sat nav)
  • Canada Square Car Park: Entrance on Montgomery Street (use E14 5EW for sat nav)
  • Jubilee Place Car Park: Entrance on Bank Street (use E14 5NY for sat nav)
  • Westferry Circus Car Park: Entrance on West India Avenue (use E14 4HD for sat nav)

Designated bays are available for disabled drivers (a valid blue badge must be clearly displayed within the windscreen of the vehicle – subject to Parking Charge Notice) and parents with children.

There is a height restriction of 2.0m in all car parks and all of the public car parks at Canary Wharf hold Park Mark safer parking awards.

Cashless Payments:

Our car parks do not accept cash payments. Please use a debit/credit card or contactless method to pay for your parking session.

Cabot Square, Canada Square & Jubilee Place car parks daily parking tarrif:

MON-SUN 0400 – 1800HRS

Westferry Circus Car park daily parking tarrif:

Entry after 1800hrs:

0-3 hours: £3.80 and £8.00 thereafter, up to 0700hrs the next morning.

The evening tariff is valid between 1800 hours and 0700 hours.

Vehicles entering before 1800 hours or leaving after 0700 hours will have their total parking time calculated at the displayed daily tariff.

MOTORCYCLES:

£3.20 per visit/day.

SECURE CYCLE PARKING:

Access to our Secure Bicycle Compound in Canada Square Car Park, £12 per calendar month. There are a limited number of available spaces. For more information please call 020 7418 2752 or email [email protected]

SEASON TICKETS:

There are a limited number of available spaces in the Canary Wharf car parks adjacent to shops and restaurants. For more information please call 020 7418 2752 or email [email protected]

LOST TICKETS:

Fixed charge of £3.00 plus rate for length of stay.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Charges are for the rental of parking space only. Entry to or use of this car park is at your own risk subject to the Terms and Conditions of Canary Wharf Management Limited. These conditions contain limited exemption clauses affecting all persons who enter or use the car park. Copies of the Terms and Conditions are exhibited within the car park and are available on request.

To get 3 hours’ free parking, simply ask if the store is participating in the discount scheme then have your ticket validated at point of purchase and use in the pay on foot machines before returning to your car.

Alternatively, spend £10 in Waitrose Food & Home Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays, and enjoy 2 hours’ free parking. To get 2 hours’ free parking, simply ask for your ticket to be validated at point of purchase and use in the pay on foot machines before returning to your car.

Click here to download the Canary Wharf App

Discounted long term parking is available at Canada Square, Cabot Square and Westferry Circus. Canada Square car park is located just a 2 min walk from Elizabeth Line with easy access to Heathrow and City Airport.

Important: You may only enter and exit the car park once during your booked period.

Electric Vehicle Charging in Canada Square Car Park : There are twelve dedicated superchargers for Tesla vehicles on Parking level 3. There are fourteen charging points for BP Pulse members on parking level 3. All electric vehicles are subject to the relevant daily parking tariff.

For more information visit www.bppulse.co.uk

Cabot Square Car Park:

Supermarket Parking, Train Commuter Parking, Airport Parking, Healthcare Parking, Restaurant Parking, Sports Centre Parking, Tourist Attraction Parking, Cycle Parking, Motorcycle Parking, Suitable for families, Suitable for shoppers.

Canada Square Car Park:

Supermarket Parking, Train Commuter Parking, Airport Parking, Healthcare Parking, Restaurant Parking, Sports Centre Parking, Tourist Attraction Parking, Cycle Parking, Motorcycle Parking, Electric vehicle charging points, Suitable for families, Suitable for shoppers.

Jubilee Place Car Park:

The site has the following accreditation awards: Supermarket Parking, Train Commuter Parking, Airport Parking, Restaurant Parking, Sports Centre Parking, Natural Tourist Attraction Parking, Cycle Parking, Electric vehicle charging points, Suitable for families, Suitable for shoppers.

For more information visit www.peoplesparking.org

For further information on car, motorcycle and bicycle parking, call 020 7418 2752 or email [email protected]

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The Limehouse Link tunnel and The Highway provide access to the City and the West End. The Blackwall and Rotherhithe tunnels provide a link across the river to south London.

The A13 is a three-lane highway from Canary Wharf to the M25 orbital motorway which in turn connects to all the main routes out of London.

Canary Wharf has 6,000 car parking spaces of which 2,500 are provided within public car parks. Canary Wharf also provides pedal and motor cycle parking at several locations.

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Canary Wharf is well served by taxis with a total of 11 taxi ranks that operate 24 hours a day.

PLANNED ROAD CLOSURES*

Notifications of planned road closures on the Estate will appear here. Note also that these can occur at short notice however, every effort will be made to update this information when known.

From 7am Saturday 23 March until 5am Monday 25 March Bank Street will be closed outside 20 Bank Street to facilitate essential roadworks.

From 7am Saturday 30 March until 7pm Sunday 31 March  Bank Street South Carriageway will be closed to facilitate a crane operation.  Traffic will flow in a two-way system on the North Carriageway.

*These dates are correct at time of publication but may be subject to change.

Formerly known as Crossrail, the Elizabeth line is now open.

The Canary Wharf Elizabeth line station provides swift connections with travel times of:

  • Whitechapel 3 minutes
  • Liverpool St 6 minutes
  • Farringdon 9 minutes
  • Tottenham Court Road 12 minutes
  • Paddington 17 minutes
  • London Heathrow in  45 minutes

Six bus routes pass through Canary Wharf:

Coach services connect Canary Wharf with London Victoria, North Kent, Snodland, Vigo Village, New Ash Green, New Covent Garden and Maidstone.

Road closures may affect your journey.  Click here for details of planned road closures

Bus routes during road closures are the responsibility of Transport for London. For 24 hour travel information you can contact them on: 020 7222 1234 or visit  www.tfl.gov.uk .

Click here for further information about London Bus services

PLANNED ROUTE ALTERATIONS:

From Saturday 11 November, until further notice, bus routes D7, 135 & 277 will not be stopping at the bus stop immediately outside of 8 Canada Square (the HSBC building). The nearest next stop, Bus Stop J, is just 75 yards from the HSBC stop, and is easily accessible. Alterantively, you can use bus stops F or G.

Bus routes D3, D8 and N550, and all coach routes are unaffected.

Thames Clippers operates four peak services per hour to Canary Wharf pier from central London (Waterloo) in the west and Woolwich in the east.

It takes 30 minutes from Waterloo to Canary Wharf and 29 minutes from Woolwich to Canary Wharf.

Stops include Westminster, Embankment, Blackfriars, Bankside, London Bridge and Tower piers to the west and Greenland (Surrey Quays) Pier, Masthouse Terrace and Greenwich.  A shuttle service from London Bridge to Canary Wharf (13 minutes) operates every 10 minutes in the peak hours.

In addition to the regular services a cross-river shuttle operates between Greenland (Surrey Quays) Pier and Canary Wharf. Oyster cards are now accepted for Pay-As-You-Go payments on river bus services.

The Canary Wharf pier is located a few minutes’ walk from the centre of the Canary Wharf Estate, close to Westferry Circus.

Click here for further information about River Services

Canary Wharf is a few minutes’ walk from the Thames Path, a public right of way that runs the whole length of the river. Greenwich/Cutty Sark, through the foot tunnel, is 2.2 miles away or 45 minutes on foot.

There is a footbridge from the West Wintergarden to South Quay, and Upper Bank Street Bridge provides a route to Poplar DLR Station in the north.

There are several cycle routes that provide access to Canary Wharf for cyclists. The London Cycle Network also follows a signed route along the river to Canary Riverside and Riverside South. Liverpool Street Station, in the heart of the City of London, is 3.3 miles or 19 minutes away by bike.

Canary Wharf provides extensive cycle parking, with more than 1,300 free cycle parking spaces located across the Canary Wharf Estate. There are an additional 405 secure cycle parking spaces for public use for which a charge is applied and a further 3,715 private cycle parking spaces within individual building car parks.

Access to our Secure Bicycle Compound in Canada Square Car Park, £12 per calendar month. There are a limited number of available spaces and electric bikes or scooters storage is not permitted. For more information please call 020 7418 2752 or email [email protected]

Click here to download the current map showing cycle parking at Canary Wharf

There are 273 Santander Cycle docking stations on the Canary Wharf estate. Those planning to use the scheme can find their closest docking station on the TfL website , where they can also sign up for free cycle training and find out more about the scheme.

Docking stations can be found in the following six locations on the Canary Wharf estate.

  • Jubilee Plaza
  • Fishermans Walk
  • Heron Quay, DLR Concourse
  • South Dock Walk
  • Upper Bank Street
  • Westferry Circus

Transport for London’s Cycle Hire Users’ Code of Conduct suggest some of the following tips for staying safe on your bike:

  • Be careful around lorries, which have numerous blind spots, and never pass them on the left just before, or at, traffic lights
  • Don’t get too close to parked cars
  • Watch out for other vehicles and pedestrians and give clear hand signals to show your intentions
  • Make yourself seen at night by wearing reflective or fluorescent clothing

It costs as little as £2 a day to use Santander Cycles, and the scheme accepts all major credit and debit cards. It does not accept cash or Oyster.

Road closures may affect your journey. Click here for details of planned road closures

PLANNED ACCESS CLOSURES / CHANGES

Notifications of planned closures on the Estate will appear here. Note also that these can occur at short notice however, every effort will be made to update this information when known.

From Tuesday 26 July 2022: Bank Street Park will be closed, including all the pedestrian footpath routes to/from Westferry Road at rear of 1-5 Bank Street and Bank Street to facilitate installation of padel tennis courts. 

Since June 2021 electric scooters (e-scooters) have been available to rent in several areas of London, including Canary Wharf.

We have three e-scooter providers – Dott, Lime and TIER – offering e-scooters to hire in 19 locations on the Estate. The e-scooter providers have been approved by TfL and follow strict safety guidelines.   The e-scooters offer our visitors, workers, and residents at Canary Wharf another great sustainable way to get around the Estate.  

How to hire a rental electric scooter

You can rent the operators’ e-scooters through their mobile phone apps. You will need to:

  • Download the app of your chosen operator
  • Complete the registration process including verifying your age and driving licence
  • Complete the mandatory in-app training before your first ride

You will then be able to find an e-scooter. Use a QR code or vehicle ID displayed on the e-scooter to unlock that e-scooter in the relevant operator’s app.

The rental trial in London has been equipped with safety features including:

  • Riders must be 18 or over and hold at least a provisional driving license
  • The speed limit of trial e-scooters is capped at 12.5mph – they will automatically reduce speed to 8mph in ‘go slow’ areas. The trial e-scooters also come to a safe stop in ‘no-go’ zones to ensure they can be ridden safely
  • All first-time riders must to do mandatory training on how to ride safely in London
  • The trial e-scooters are maintained to a high level and have large wheels to help navigate road surfaces more easily
  • Lights at the front and rear of the vehicles are always on throughout any rental

Click here for more information on the scheme

Eurostar services from Paris and Brussels, among other destinations, stop at Stratford International. It is an additional 8 minutes to Canary Wharf on the Jubilee Line.

Passengers travelling to Canary Wharf can avoid central London by travelling from Kings Cross St Pancras to Stratford. The journey takes 7 minutes.

High-speed national rail services run to and from Ashford in Kent, Folkestone and the Medway Towns. The journey time from Ashford to Stratford is 35 minutes.

National Rail

Mainlines from Kings Cross St Pancras and nearby Euston and Kings Cross stations connect to the north of England and Scotland. There are direct services to cities including Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle.

Waterloo and Paddington stations serve Wales and the west of England: Cardiff, Bristol, Southampton and Plymouth.

Mainlines within easy reach of Canary Wharf connect suburbs and commuter towns all around London. There are direct services into Stratford from Stansted Airport, Hertford East and the Bishops Stortford line.

Thameslink services from locations north and south of London, including Gatwick Airport, Luton Airport Parkway, Bedford and Brighton run into London Bridge and Kings Cross St Pancras.

For details visit  www.nationalrail.co.uk

London City

London City Airport is less than 3 miles from Canary Wharf with flights to 50 destinations worldwide. British Airways operates Business Class flights to New York (JFK). Check-in time is 20 minutes.

The Docklands Light Railway runs to London City Airport in 14 minutes from Canary Wharf by public transport and 10 minutes by taxi. A private jet centre is also available at London City Airport.

The journey to Heathrow Airport takes 55 minutes though the Elizabeth line (Crossrail) will reduce the travel time to 44 minutes. National Express has introduced the Dot2Dot service, providing a luxury mini-coach service to Heathrow Airport aimed at business travellers. A pick-up service operates within Canary Wharf.

Gatwick Airport can be reached via London Bridge on Thameslink services and on Gatwick Express services from Victoria. The quickest route is about 45 minutes.

Stansted Airport can be accessed by using the Stansted Express from Liverpool Street Station or services from Stratford with a travel time of approximately one hour. An express bus service also operates from Stratford.

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HSBC urges investors to back AGM vote opening way to higher bonuses

London-headquartered lender wants to take advantage of UK’s decision to scrap bonus cap

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HSBC is urging shareholders to back a vote at its annual meeting that would open the door to bigger bonuses for its highest-earning bankers.

The London-headquartered lender wants to take advantage of the UK’s decision to scrap the banker bonus cap , which was introduced after the 2008 financial crisis and limited bonuses at twice an individual’s base salary.

But although regulators have given the green light to higher payouts, HSBC needs to overturn the cap in its own corporate rulebook, which was changed shortly after the EU law was implemented in 2014.

Shareholder approval would open the door for much larger bonuses for HSBC’s executives and hundreds of its most highly paid bankers, who are referred to as “material risk takers” and earn more than €1m (£860,000).

An annual general meeting (AGM) notice published on Friday claimed HSBC would benefit from the “flexibility” of weighting payouts more heavily towards bonuses rather than fixed salaries. It said it would allow the bank to reduce fixed-pay costs over time, clawback more pay in cases of future misconduct, and help HSBC compete for global staff.

“Increasing flexibility in the structure of reward is important to HSBC,” the bank said. “Approval by shareholders of this new resolution will increase our ability to recruit and retain key employees in competitive talent markets.”

The lender added: “A significant number of our material risk takers are based outside the EU where most of our international peers and domestic competitors do not have to comply with similar pay restrictions.”

HSBC already pays millions of pounds to its biggest earners. Its latest annual report revealed that 512 of its bankers earned more than €1m, 18 of whom were paid more than €5m. One unidentified banker, and its highest earner, was paid between €12m and €13m. HSBC said its chief executive, Noel Quinn, was paid £10.6m – or about €12.4m – in 2023.

The bank needs at least 51% of voting shareholders to back its resolution at its AGM, which will be held at the InterContinental Hotel at London’s O2 on 3 May.

However, the change would not apply to HSBC’s EU-based bankers, who are still bound by the cap, potentially creating pay discrepancies between its international hubs.

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Plans to scrap the banker bonus cap were initially announced by the former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, during the Truss government’s disastrous mini-budget in September 2022, though most big UK lenders indicated they were not consulted on the proposals. They were later approved by the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, and UK regulators including the Bank of England.

The cap was originally part of changes introduced after the 2007-08 banking crash, and aimed to stamp out a bonus culture blamed for encouraging short-term profits over longer-term stability. The hope was that, with less of an individual’s pay riding on performance, there would be a lower incentive for risky behaviour.

UK politicians and regulators broadly opposed the rules, arguing that the clampdown would make it harder to attract skilled bankers, who would instead flee to rival hubs in New York, Singapore or Zurich. The then chancellor, George Osborne, tried to overturn the measure at the European court of justice in 2014.

The Bank of England was also concerned at the time that the cap would lead to a rise in fixed salaries and squeeze bank finances. While the rules did, in fact, raise fixed pay, the extra costs have rarely been blamed for causing any financial distress for lenders.

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Opening Hours

8.00am - 7.55pm

9.00am - 4.55pm

10.00am - 4.55pm

How to contact us

  • 020 7357 7373
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Where to find us

On the ground floor concourse, next to the large pillar, by the St Thomas Street entrance.

Nearest Stations

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London Bridge - Underground

Monument - Underground

Please always check your journey before leaving. Timetables and services may vary and be subject to change at any time without our knowledge.

For the most up-to-date travel information check with Transport for London

Nearest Buses

Hay’s Galleria, towards Aldgate or Rotherhithe

47, 343, 381

Unicorn Theatre, towards Elephant & Castle, Monument or Waterloo

Staple Street, towards Elephant & Castle

Nearest Car Parks

NCP Car Park - Kipling Street

Post code: SE1 3RU

For the more information on parking and prices, check the NCP website

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Walking, travelling by train, bus or car? Google Maps can help you find us with detailed directions to our store.

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Important information, payment options.

Debit Card (No credit cards)

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Order limits

Minimum order value: £0

Maximum order value: No order limit*

For large amounts you must pre-order online or contact our store before visiting to ensure we have the currency in stock.

*compliance permitted

ID and Compliance for Collection

All orders are subject to compliance and can be withdrawn at any time. We do not make payments to 3rd parties, the person who places the order and pays for the order must be the same person who drops off the currencies and also be the beneficiary.

Government issued ID, required for every transaction:

More ID and Documents

Proof of address, proof of funds, bank statements and more. This may be required for larger transactions and type of currencies but not limited.

Please note: We are unable to tell you what documents are required until the order has been placed.

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Operating since 2007

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