Reference from the Sustainable Communities Overview and Scrutiny Panel - Electric Vehicle Charging Task Group report

June 19, 2023 Cabinet (Cabinet collective) Awaiting outcome View on council website

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Summary

...to implement the recommendations from the Electric Vehicle Charging Task Group's report, which includes running trials for home charging alternatives, lobbying for fairer VAT charging, ensuring even distribution of charging types, improving signage for EV bays, promoting EV charging in council facilities, prioritizing electric fleets, reviewing policies on street clutter, focusing on rapid charge points, reviewing parking charges for EVs, encouraging Housing Associations to provide EV charging, adopting a Highway Authority ownership model for cable channel schemes, and ensuring EV charging units are environmentally sympathetic, through the Electric Vehicle Strategy to be written by Future Merton.

Full council record

Purpose

Recommendations for the EV Strategy from the EV Charging task group

Decision

RESOLVED:

  1. That Cabinet considered the report and recommendations (attached in Appendix A) arising from the scrutiny review of Electrical Vehicle Charging in Merton.
  2. That Cabinet agreed to the implementation and inclusion of the recommendations through the Electric Vehicle Strategy due to be written by Future Merton working with the Cabinet Member for Transpor

Related Meeting

Cabinet - Monday 19 June 2023 7.15 pm on June 19, 2023

Supporting Documents

Appendix A - EV Charging TG recommendations.pdf
EV Charging TG Cabinet Paper 19 June 2023.pdf

Details

OutcomeFor Determination
Decision date19 Jun 2023
Expected date19 Jun 2023
Originally due19 Jun 2023
Lead officerRosie Mckeever