Shropshire towns set to get on-street electric vehicle charging points
Shropshire motorists who are already using electric and hybrid vehicles will be gaining on-street electric vehicle charging points in their hometowns. A successful bid for Government funding has enabled Shropshire Council to invest nearly £1000,000 in more on-the-street charging points.
Ian Nellins, Shropshire Council’s Cabinet member for climate change, environment, and transport says, “We’re committed to improving and developing infrastructure to enable residents and businesses to lead more sustainable and self-sufficient lives, which in turn helps reduce the impacts of climate change on our environment. Providing more electric vehicle charging points that are accessible to all motorists is just one of the ways we are delivering on this priority.”
Adding, “This is one of the biggest awards to have been made to any council under the on-street residential charging points scheme from the Office of Zero Emission Vehicles, and it means we can add 270 more charge points to our streets and car parks to benefit the growing number of hybrid and EV owners in the county.”
“ This is one of the biggest awards to have been made to any council under the on-street residential charging points scheme from the Office of Zero Emission Vehicles “
The Office for Zero Emissions, with support from the Energy Saving Trust, has been awarded £902,940 to install the on-street charging points in Shropshire. The county is currently ranked sixty-five out of three hundred and seventy-five local authorities for its number of charge points. This new development will boost Shropshire to eleventh place, within the top three percent nationally.
Shropshire Council is expecting to add four to twelve charging points in each of seventeen chosen areas:
- Albrighton — Crown Hotel and High Street
- Bridgnorth — Innage Lane and Listley Street North
- Broseley — Bridgnorth Road and Dark Lane
- Church Stretton — 6 Essex Road and Easthope 1–4
- Cleobury Mortimer — Childe Road East, Childe Road West and St Mary’s Lane
- Clun — High Street
- Gobowen — Railway Station
- Highley — High Street, 25 Woodhill Road
- Ludlow — Galdeford Zone A, Corve Street and Broad Street
- Market Drayton — Frogmore Road
- Much Wenlock — Falcons Court
- Oswestry — Edward Street, Wats Drive and Lloyd Street
- Prees — Church Street
- Shifnal — Aston Street, 56 Broadway and Victoria Road
- Shrewsbury — Bainbridge Green, 131 Copthorne Road, 93 New Park Road, 79 Bishop Street, and Abbey Foregate
- Wem — Aston Street and Mill Street
- Whitchurch — Castle Hill, Newtown, Sherrymill Hill, St John’s Street and George Street
Ian Nellins says, “The locations have been chosen using insight from data which predicts the locations of early adopters of technology in residential areas where properties have little / no off-street parking. The installation is intended to give them confidence in their ability to access chargers when and where they need them”.
At a time when drivers are considering alternative forms of energy, this news is welcome and will eventually enable more Shropshire residents to make the switch.
Originally published at http://theuntamedbeast.uk on November 15, 2022.
