07 January, 2021 ‘Chicken and egg; you need to instal the charging points before people who have to park on the street will switch to electric vehicles’ • MOST people recognise electric vehicles are less damaging to the environment, yet it is totally impractical to own one if you have to park on the streets of Camden because there are so few charging points. Take Primrose Hill, for example. In the area bounded by Regent’s Park Road and Gloucester Avenue, there are precisely three charging points for around 1,000 households, very few of which have off-street parking. One solution is to convert more lamp-posts to include charging points – lots of them – so you have a reasonable chance of getting an adjacent parking space. There are even government subsidies available to encourage this.