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 websiteThis summary is generated by AI from the council’s published record and supporting documents. Check the full council record and source link before relying on it.
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:
- That Cabinet considered the report and recommendations (attached in Appendix A) arising from the scrutiny review of Electrical Vehicle Charging in Merton.
- 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
Details
| Outcome | For Determination |
| Decision date | 19 Jun 2023 |
| Expected date | 19 Jun 2023 |
| Originally due | 19 Jun 2023 |
| Lead officer | Rosie Mckeever |