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:
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.
The Government has 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, the Council has begun work on installing electric vehicle charging points and wants to know your views on where they should be located.
The Council will be continuously reviewing the data from this consultation and using it to inform on the locations of new electric vehicle charging points within the borough.
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