Mobile tyre fitting
in Primrose Hill.

A fitter at your car
in Primrose Hill.

Terraces here went up before anybody owned a car, so driveways are scarce and the street does the work instead. What turns up is the ordinary NW1 catalogue: an alloy scuffed squeezing past a parked van, a leak so slow it only declares itself after a weekend standing still, a nail collected on Camden High Street and carried home unnoticed. None of it means moving the car. Quote the postcode, the bay and the code stamped round the sidewall, and the right casing is aboard before a van pulls out of Brent Cross.

Drives, bays and car parks.

A resident bay with the car parallel to the kerb is the normal arrangement, and the space is not lost while the wheel is off. Where a mews or a lock up garage sits behind the terrace, that is better still, because the van can pull alongside rather than into moving traffic. The zoo car park will do as a rendezvous for anything still drivable. What does not work is the length of Parkway in trading hours, where loading never stops, or the red route along Camden High Street.

The calls spread over the streets between Prince Albert Road and the railway cutting, along Parkway and Albany Street on the A4201, and out of the blocks nearer Camden Town and Chalk Farm. Almost all of it is Camden permit bay, marked and enforced, so a fitter wants the zone, the bay and word of anything suspended. Side roads are narrow and parked on both flanks, which means the van has to stand somewhere it does not choke the street. Camden High Street runs as a red route and is no use whatever. Visitor parking at London Zoo off Prince Albert Road is genuinely public and suits a car that still drives. The ULEZ runs here at every hour, and a car up on a jack is charged for none of it.