Electric Vehicle Charging Point Consultation

The Government announced that from 2030, new petrol and diesel cars will be prohibited from sale within the United Kingdom.  Over the next decade the number of electric vehicles within the country and within the borough is expected to significantly increase.

In order to meet this challenge, Havering Council carried out a consultation activity from July 2021 to July 2022 seeking residents’ views on having Electric Vehicle Charging Points (EVCPs) publicly available and asking where residents would like to see them installed, if they owned an electric vehicle and if they planned to buy one.

356 responses were received to the consultation:

• 27% of respondents currently either own or hire an electric vehicle and a further 63% plan to purchase in the future.
• 69% said they would purchase an electric vehicle sooner if there were more charging points.
• 93% of respondents would like to see more charging points in bays marked for ‘EV Charging Only’ and 81% of respondents would like to see slow-charging points in lamp posts.
• The top three priorities for charging point locations outside of residential areas were Supermarkets (91%), Shopping Centre Car Parks (89%) and Town Centre Parking (80%).

The survey results have been reviewed and recorded and they will help with planning the future roll out of the EVCPs across the borough.

Since the survey went out Havering Council has received £346k of Government funding from the Office of Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) to deliver 68 Charge Points in Council operated car parks and up to 80 on street charging points across the borough in 2023. The Council will soon begin a procurement exercise to appoint a Charge Point Operator and the intention is to begin delivery of the charging infrastructure in the coming months.