Lewes District Council has completed its ambitious programme to install 64 public charging points for electric vehicles across 11 of its car parks.
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Under a 15-year agreement, Connected Kerb, a leading UK electric vehicle infrastructure contractor, has provided and set up the charging points, as well as replaced existing broken rapid charging units.
In Lewes, the car parks with electric vehicle (EV) charging points are: Mountfield Road, Little East Street, Phoenix Causeway, West Street (Needlemakers) and Friars Walk. They are also installed in Sutton Road, Saxon Lane and West Street car parks in Seaford; Bay Vue and Lower Place car parks in Newhaven; and Barcombe car park.
Councillor Emily O’Brien, Cabinet Member for Climate, Nature and Food Systems, said: “We want to make it easier for local people to do right thing for the environment. I’ve heard from many people who want to get an electric car and can afford to do so, but they don’t go ahead because of lack of access to chargers or to off-street parking where they can install one.
“By putting affordable charge points into our council-owned car parks we make it much easier for those people to take that step towards a greener future.”
Councillor Wendy Maples, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhood Wellbeing, said: “With the need to move away from petrol and diesel vehicles, residents and visitors expect EV provision and we are pleased to announce that the infrastructure is now up and running across a number of our district car parks.”
The government has set a target of 300,000 public charge points across the country in the next seven years.
Chris Pateman-Jones, CEO of Connected Kerb, said: “We are delighted to be working with Lewes District Council on this vitally important climate change project.
“Ensuring that areas such as Lewes district have long-lasting, future-proofed EV charging infrastructure is essential to the UK’s aspirations to move to more sustainable forms of transport and meet its net zero targets.”
