Mobile tyre fitting
in Belmont.

A fitter at your car
in Belmont.

Being off the main roads changes what goes wrong. There is very little passing traffic to fling debris about, so the punctures here are the slow kind, collected somewhere else and discovered on the drive a few days later, plus the occasional kerbed rim from a tight turn. The A409 and the A4140 Honeypot Lane both lie about three quarters of a mile off, which is far enough that nobody living here needs to go near either to have a tyre changed.

Drives, bays and car parks.

Driveways, overwhelmingly. Level, private, and enough room in front of most houses for the van to pull up behind without blocking anyone in. Where a house has no drive, the road outside is usually wide and quiet enough for work at the kerb, which is not true of every part of the borough. A rear service road or a shared parking area belongs to whoever owns it, so that needs their agreement first. What there is not, anywhere in Belmont, is a public car park to meet at.

Almost every address in this pocket has a driveway, and that is the whole story of working here. Calls come from the streets between Marsh Lane and Whitchurch Lane, from the HA7 side towards Stanmore and Canons Park, and from the HA3 edge dropping towards Wealdstone. The nearest stations are Harrow & Wealdstone, Canons Park and Stanmore, all about a mile off, so commuter cars sit at home during the day rather than in a station bay. Public parking round here belongs to Wealdstone and the High Street, the better part of a mile away, which leaves a drive or the road outside the house as the working surface. The one genuine constraint is width: plenty of these frontages take a single car, so say whether there is space alongside the vehicle before anybody sets out.