Do you need to charge an electric car? The nearest charging station ("Renault Goeyens") is just 2 minutes away by car. You don’t want to own a car, but you still occasionally need one? There is the "Cambio - Charleroi-Gare" station where you can rent a shared vehicle just 48 minutes away by foot. To reach A54 / E420 (Nivelles - Charleroi) you only need 7 minutes and A15 / E42 (La Louvière - Charleroi - Namur - Liège) is reachable in 11 minutes. Brussels South Charleroi Airport is 10 minutes’ drive away or reachable by public transport in about 60 minutes. The nearest train station is "Couillet": reachable in 2 minutes by car, or 12 minutes by public transport.
For your food shopping, you have multiple options: "Carrefour Market Couillet" (8 minutes by foot or 1 minute by car), "Delhaize Marcinelle" (12 minutes by foot or 2 minutes by car), "Lidl Couillet" (17 minutes by foot or 3 minutes by car).
There is a nearby preschool and elementary school: "Institut Notre-Dame D'Espérance - Section Fondamentale", 1 minute away by bike. Les Fiestaux is the most convieniently located nursery: just 1 minute away by bike. The closest high school is named "Centre Éducatif Communal Secondaire De Couillet-Marcinelle" and is 2 minutes' away by car.
Brussels is 51 minutes away by car. In just 7 minutes by car you can reach Charleroi. Namur is only 29 minutes away by car. In 37 minutes you can reach Mons.
You can access these bus lines: TEC Charleroi - 20 - Gerpinnes - IMTR - Charleroi with a stand 3 minutes’ walk away, TEC Charleroi - 13 - Presles (Cité Solaire) - Charleroi Sud, TEC Charleroi - 14 - Charleroi Sud - Bouffioulx - Gilly (Gazomètre) with a stop reachable in fewer than 6 minutes as a pedestrian.
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