Ludicrous piece of knee jerk policy making. Pandering to to some idealised image of a zero carbon car owning society within 25 or 50 years? Meanwhile we continue to build junk housing that fails in nearly every other category of providing decent accommodation that can cater for any sort of change to family circumstance. Need a bit more storage, you’ll need to move. Need room for a baby, you’ll need to move. Need to park a car, you’ll need to move. Want any sort of outside space – good luck with that one. Wondering where to put the 2, 3, 4 + wheelie bins your refuse and recycling now has to go in? Don’t bother looking for the well designed outdoor storage provided as part of the building regs, because central government were too busy wasting money on the electric charging point for the car you’ll never be able to afford, or even park outside your shoebox of a dwelling.
We are proposals to alter existing:
- residential
- non-residential
buildings regulations to include a requirement for electric vehicle chargepoint infrastructure.
The government proposes every new residential building with an associated car parking space to have a chargepoint. We propose this requirement applies to buildings undergoing a material change of use to create a dwelling.
Installing chargepoints in residential buildings will add an additional cost ofapproximately £976 per car parking space for an average home.
This is not correct. If you are installing a chargpoint in af ront wall next to a parking space the cost for the socket is £45. If you have flats where anyone can plug in (to avoid electricity rsutling) the cost of a digital charging pole is 14-16 thousand. This will likely kill off affordable apartments and build to rent. As of yet there is no technical solution to this at an affordable price. The sensible…
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Roger Gambba-Jones 