On Street Charging Points

You may be aware that Shropshire Council made an announcement last week  in respect of a successful bid for Government funding which has secured the Council almost £902, 940 to install more on-street electric vehicle charging points across the county.  The grant award came from the ‘Office for Zero Emission Vehicles’, with support of the Energy Saving Trust.    This will enable the installation of on-street charge points for residents wishing to charge their plug-in electric vehicles.  Shropshire Council will now work with our charge point operator, ‘Connected Kerb’, to bring the number of EV charge points to 320, across 45 locations in the county. 

Link to press release:  https://newsroom.shropshire.gov.uk/2022/10/electric-vehicle-charging-points-funding/

The programme of sites for which installations are proposed is as follows:

Number	Site Name	Postcode
1	Falcons Court car park	TF13 6PG
2	Childe Road West car park	DY14 8GH
3	Mill Street car park	SY4 5DD
4	Broseley Bridgnorth Road	TF12 5JB
5	Aston street car park	TF11 8DW
6	Bainbridge Green	SY13QS
7	Wat’s Drive	SY11 1ET
8	Lloyd Street	SY111NL
9	St Mary’s Lane car park	TF13 6HD
10	George Street	SY13 1NY
11	Corvedale road	SY7 9NE
12	Broad street	SY8 1NH
13	Corve street	SY8 1DN
14	Albrighton High Street (Crown Hotel)	WV7 3JA
15	Albrighton High street	WV7 3JU
16	Bridgnorth Innage Lane	WV16 4HL
17	Bridgnorth Listley Street North	WV16 4AW
18	Broseley Dark Lane	TF12 5LH
19	Church Stretton Easthope 1-4	SY6 6BL
20	Cleobury Mortimer Childe Road (East)	DY14 8PB
21	Clun High street	SY7 8LJ
22	Highley High Street	WV16 6LF
23	25 Woodhill Rd	WV16 6HF
24	Ludlow Galdeford Zone A	SY8 1QB
25	Market Drayton Frogmore Road	TF9 3EB
26	Prees Church Street	SY13 2DK
27	131 Copthorne road	SY38NA
28	Whitchurch Castle Hill	SY131BG
29	Whitchurch Newtown	SY13 1DE
30	Whitchurch Sherrymill Hill	SY13 1XA
31	Whitchurch St John’s Street	SY13 1QT
32	56 Broadway, Shifnal	TF11 8AJ
33	Gabowen Rail Station	SY11 3QN
34	93 New Pk Rd	SY1 2RT
35	79 Bishop street	SY2 5HA
36	Abbey foregate, Shrewsbury, additional	SY2 6BS
37	Aston street car park Wem	SY4 5EP
38	Church Stretton 6 Essex road	SY6SAS
39	Edward street Oswestry	SY11 2BL
40	Victoria Road	TF11 8AW

As you can see, five of the forty sites are located in Shifnal and Albrighton.

It is anticipated that 2-6 charge points providing up to 4-12 charging bays will be made available at each of the locations above.

Site selection has been informed by data analytics showing locations of early adopters of technology in residential areas where properties have little / no off-street parking and charge point locations are therefore carefully distributed to provide convenient access to EVCPs for residents within each region without off street parking and is intended to give them confidence in their ability to access chargers when they need them. 

Shropshire Council and its existing technology provider Connected Kerb will also actively engage the community to promote increased public awareness of the new infrastructure and its advantages. Community engagement will take place at the point of installation, information will be distributed to residents to providing detail on electric vehicle technology and how to use the new charge points. The charge point system provides real-time charge point usage data. This will be used to develop follow-up customer engagement plans to continue to drive up utilisation.  Needless to say if any more opportunities arise to bid for further grant monies arise then we will make further submissions.