Grant for electric charge point and driveway?

t3rm3y

Hello, I hope this is the right part of the forums, but looking for some guidance, we have on street parking and I'm looking at getting an electric car but I don't want the charge point on the edge as theoretically anyone could just plug in? Or block me from getting to charge point. So I would like to look at a cheap driveway (just flatten the grass, put those plastic re-enforced things down and gravel it). But is there any gov schemes to help with the costs? I believe there are for the charge point isntall but ideally need help with the driveway and council planning costs..

Grey_Critic

Local authorities are not fans of people driving over the pavement to get to their parking point so think you may have a problem.

[Deleted User]

You will need to talk to the council about a dropped kerb if you don't already have one. They will charge you ££££ to put one in, if they allow it at all.

On the plus side it will add far more than it costs to the value of your house.

If you get a charger for on road parking then you can simply turn it off when not in use from inside your house. It will have its own breaker.

Ectophile

There used to be a grant for installing a charger.  But the government stopped that.

Nobody is going to give you a grant to turn your front garden into a driveway.

SiliconChip

I believe some car manufacturers offer a contribution towards the cost of installing a charge point as an incentive to buy the car, you'd have to check whether the car you're interested in includes this (it obviously only applies to new cars). The cost of creating a drive is on you.

TooManyPoints

My LA charges around £1,000 to install a dropped kerb. You must have it as otherwise you will be driving on the footpath (and the LA may charge you for any damage you cause to the pavement, utilities, etc.).

Grey_Critic

Just typed Home Charging for Electric Cars and this is the first to come up

https://www.rac.co.uk/electric-cars/home-charging

But there are lots more including EDF - just search

Grumpy_chap

TooManyPoints said:

My LA charges around £1,000 to install a dropped kerb. You must have it as otherwise you will be driving on the footpath (and the LA may charge you for any damage you cause to the pavement, utilities, etc.).

That is an absolute bargain!
My LA charged £3k when we had ours done in 2011.

t3rm3y

[Deleted User] said:

You will need to talk to the council about a dropped kerb if you don't already have one. They will charge you ££££ to put one in, if they allow it at all.

On the plus side it will add far more than it costs to the value of your house.

If you get a charger for on road parking then you can simply turn it off when not in use from inside your house. It will have its own breaker.

Thanks yes I was expecting to have to get the dropped kerb and also a driveway built, and was hoping for costs towards it. I don't fancy having the charge point on edge of garden nearer to road , even if can turn off only takes someone to park beside it and leave car for weekend and I'm stuffed 

sheramber

My council don't do the work.

A local firm charged £1400 to complete all the paperwork to get permission and then do the work.

They do most of the local ones and have everything set up on their computer so only have to fill in the details.