On Street Charging Points
Shropshire Council made an announcement 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. The 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. Please refer below to the proposed Electric Vehicle Charging Point locations in the area.
*Aston Street car park, Shifnal is leased and will be contacted for discussion in the new year.*
Link to press release: https://newsroom.shropshire.gov.uk/2022/10/electric-vehicle-charging-points-funding/
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. 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.
Public Toilet Refurbishment in Shifnal
As you may be aware, there are public toilets located near the train station in Market Place, Shifnal. KRM will be starting refurbishment works on the public toilets on the 9th January 2023.
Land to the front of the Shifnal Millennium Sensory Garden
Innage Road, Shifnal, Shropshire, TF11 9AW
Shifnal Town Council are continuing to pursue the development of a rain garden project on the land to the front of the Shifnal Millennium Sensory Garden, facing Innage Road. At the moment the area is cordoned off with barriers. The Council is in the process of obtaining updated project costs and quotations for the following works:
a. Removal of existing hedges.
b. Removal of tree stumps.
c. The removal of ivy.
d. The removal of the tree adjacent to residential properties.
e. The reduction of the Hornbeam tree overhanging the highway.
NB. If you want to find out more about the Shifnal Millennium and Sensory Garden, or volunteer to help, you can contact them via their website at https://www.shifnalmillenniumsensorygarden.com/
Edward Bird - Councillor for Shifnal South and Cosford 
I am really not sure about putting ECPs on the Aston Street car park, the purpose of this car park has to be short term parking to support the Shifnal shops, if slow charging points are installed this will take out available spaces for many hours, fast charging points will need a lot of available power and in many cases the infrastructure is very expensive to introduce.
I am not sure there would be any demand for charging in such a location anyway , they will be more expensive then charging at home a different more expensive VAT rate is charged for a start, I think the case for putting ECPs in Aston street needs to be carefully considered and impact assessed, it could be an expensive mistake, putting ECPs in this car park because there isn’t another suitable location isn’t a good enough reason
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Thanks for your comment David. This was discussed at Shifnal Town Council before Christmas. Councillors had concerns over this as there are already pressures on parking spaces at the back of the co-op.
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