Not enough car club spaces in Belsize

There are just five car club spaces in Belsize – four of them on the southern edge of the ward. That’s one car club space for every 1,660 residents and a long walk to get to a car club vehicle for most of us. It’s not enough.

Car club spaces take up to ten private cars off the road. Residents who don’t use their car every day would be financially better off if they simply rented a car club vehicle on an occasional basis rather than owning a car.

Being a car club member also takes away the stress of parking fines, on-street parking permits, insurance, MOT, road tax and those mysterious dents and paint scrapes that you know you didn’t do but which cost you money or your no claims bonus.

In my world no resident should be more than five minutes walk from a car club site and I think Camden Council should be doing a lot more to facilitate the rollout of car club spaces.