New Electric Vehicle Charging Points go Live

Living Magazines Cllr England with new EVCP in Tring

The first of a new batch of Electric Vehicle Charging Points (EVCPs) for Dacorum are up and running in Tring – with many more to follow across the borough.

New ‘Rapid’ EVCPs are now operational in the Forge Car Park, Tring, with installation work also scheduled to be completed soon in High Street Car Park in Hemel Hempstead.

A range of different EVCPs – from “Fast” to ‘Ultra Rapid’ – are on the way at many other sites in Dacorum, with installation starting soon, and information will be released by the Council on when these will be available as the designs are finalised and works planned.

Dacorum Borough Council was awarded £415,360 by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV), with support of the Energy Saving Trust, for additional charging points to be fitted in our public car parks for those people with plug-in electric vehicles.

Cllr Adrian England, Portfolio Holder for Climate Change, and Deputy Leader of the Council, said: ‘I’m delighted to see these first three Osprey EV charging points go operational, which has happened earlier than expected. Tring now leads this wave of modern infrastructure being installed right across Dacorum, helping local residents, shoppers and other visitors to be confident in leaving behind vehicles which require outdated fossil fuels.’

The following public car park locations are included in the current programme:

Tring

  • Frogmore Street (East) car park
  • Forge Car Park

Berkhamsted

  • St John’s Well Lane car park

Hemel Hempstead

  • Wood Lane End car park
  • Alexandra Road car park
  • Queensway car park
  • Park Road
  • Bellgate neighbourhood centre
  • The Queen’s Square neighbourhood centre
  • Durrants Hill car park
  • Leverstock Green village shops
  • Water Gardens
  • Cowper Road
  • The Gables car park
  • Henry Wells Square
  • Bennetts End neighbourhood centre
  • High Street Car Park

Kings Langley

  • Langley Hill car park

Markyate

  • Hicks Road car park

Once all of the new EVCPs are in place as part of the installation programme, Dacorum will become the borough or district with the highest number of these in Hertfordshire, and will also move into the top 20 per cent nationally. The Council is working towards making Dacorum net-zero by 2050 at the latest.