It’s over a hundred times more expensive to open up space for people than to park a polluting car.

We have run the numbers and it turns out that on average it costs £1.93 to park a polluting car on public streets, while it costs *£211* to reserve space for a parklet. 

You read that right. It's 109X more expensive to open up space for people and nature than to park a private, polluting car in public space.

Our work on parklets has led us to research the alarming cost difference between the weekly cost to park a private car in public space compared to the weekly cost to suspend a parking bay for a parklet in some of the UK’s biggest cities.

Parklets are just one amazing tool to restructure our cities in order to drive down private car ownership, make cities greener and our air cleaner. When we desperately need to break the grip of car dominance on our cities, how can it cost so much more to keep public space open to people than to park a car?

This is why we are campaigning calling for councils across the country to set up a simple process that lets any resident apply to establish a permanent community parkelt. 

Local residents must be actively involved in the parklet creation process, therefore we are calling on people to take action by emailing their councillors to ask them to create a parklet application process. 

If you want to get involved and ask councils across the country to have a parklet application process check out and share this tool to take action. It takes just two clicks and all you need is your email and postcode!