New Build House EV Charger

Stevee1

We are buying a New Build House , is it a legal requirement for the builder to install an EV charger?
The developer is telling me that because they got planning 10 years ago they don’t have to put an EV charger in .

WellKnownSid

Stevee1 said:

We are buying a New Build House , is it a legal requirement for the builder to install an EV charger?
The developer is telling me that because they got planning 10 years ago they don’t have to put an EV charger in .

I would be worried about any other fiddles they are planning!  Will it qualify for flushing toilets inside the house or is it a bucket in a small brick outhouse?

Grumpy_chap

Planning Permission usually expires after three or five years and then has to be renewed...

user1977

Grumpy_chap said:

Planning Permission usually expires after three or five years and then has to be renewed...

Usually that only refers to the start of development - perfectly feasible to get planning 10 years ago, put spade in the ground 3 years later, and still be selling houses on the estate now.

In any event I think the EV charger requirement is building regulations rather than planning? But similarly there won't be a requirement for developments already in progress to be constantly updated as the regs change.

35har1old

Stevee1 said:

We are buying a New Build House , is it a legal requirement for the builder to install an EV charger?
The developer is telling me that because they got planning 10 years ago they don’t have to put an EV charger in .

Do you have of street parking?
Is there not a exemption if installation cost exceed a set amount?

daveyjp

If 10+ years ago the council planning policies didn't require all new builds to have an EV charger it won't have one and there will be no need to provide one now.  Once a development starts on site the planning permission is activated and the terms and conditions agreed are in place until the development is complete, which on a very large development could be decades.

Mildly_Miffed

Building Regs Part S, effective June 2022

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/infrastructure-for-charging-electric-vehicles-approved-document-s

Does not apply to buildings where full plans were submitted prior to that date, provided work was started by June 2023.

https://www.travisperkins.co.uk/content/building-regulations/part-s

ThorOdinson

What a terrible attitude. Are they not even offering to install one for some reasonable cost?

MX5huggy

You don’t want a compliance box ticking EV charger. 

At best it would be a cheap simple 7kW charge at worst a EV ready 3pin socket. If you have an EV now you want something like a Zappi, Hypervolt or OHME that is compatible with the Intelligent Octopus Go tariff. 

Veteransaver

MX5huggy said:

You don’t want a compliance box ticking EV charger. 

At best it would be a cheap simple 7kW charge at worst a EV ready 3pin socket. If you have an EV now you want something like a Zappi, Hypervolt or OHME that is compatible with the Intelligent Octopus Go tariff. 

There are better value tariffs around than intelligent octopus go.

born_again

Veteransaver said:

MX5huggy said:

You don’t want a compliance box ticking EV charger. 

At best it would be a cheap simple 7kW charge at worst a EV ready 3pin socket. If you have an EV now you want something like a Zappi, Hypervolt or OHME that is compatible with the Intelligent Octopus Go tariff. 

There are better value tariffs around than intelligent octopus go.

Do they offer daytime charging at 7p (which also includes whole house)