Croxley residents recently had the chance to have their say on plans to expand the number of public electric vehicle (EV) charge points across Three Rivers.
Three Rivers District Council (TRDC) has drafted an EV Charging Strategy that aims to grow the EV charging network within the district.
The strategy includes providing charging points at council-owned car parks in town and village centres, car parks at the council’s head office and leisure centres and on-street residential parking.
The comes alongside the council having already secured £101,250 from an Office for Zero Emission Vehicles scheme to install multiple EV charge points in Croxley’s village centre, alongside those of Rickmansworth, South Oxhey, Chorleywood and Abbots Langley.
Currently, there are only 43 public charge points across the district – none owned by the council. Hertfordshire County Council predicts there will be a need to install 6,800 public charge points across the county by 2030 to facilitate the estimated 240,800 electric vehicles registered in Hertfordshire.
Leader of TRDC councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst said: “Having the right infrastructure to help residents and businesses swap their fossil-fuelled vehicles for electric vehicles is very important.”
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Surely the council should facilitate commercial providers to install EV infrastructure, what value is the local council realistically going to add by owning/operating EV charge points?