- Installation of eight EV charge points as part of Staffordshire’s EV charging strategy
- Council working in partnership with BP Pulse
- Castle Pleasure Grounds carpark (formally Riverdrive) is the first to received council charging points
Tamworth Borough Council, in partnership with BP Pulse are installing their first council carpark EV charging points at Castle Pleasure Grounds carpark, formally known as Riverdrive.
The eight rapid charge EV charging points are part of the council’s decision to adopt the Staffordshire County Council’s electric vehicle (EV) charging strategy, which will deliver an increase in more than three thousand charge points installed across Staffordshire over the next seven years.
Tamworth Borough Council announced in April this year that the decision was also made to go further in Tamworth, with a Tamworth specific EV charging plan being adopted.
BP Pulse were appointed to provide the council with a multi-disciplinary solution that encompasses design, manufacture, installation and operation of charging units.
In agreement with Namco, BP Pulse are bringing power across Namco’s car park before installing the chargers in the Castle Pleasure Grounds carpark.
The carpark will remain open throughout the work, with the aim to ‘go live’ mid-December.
Councillor David Foster, portfolio holder for environmental, sustainability, recycling and waste, said: “As part of our commitment to support the need to decarbonise transport responsibly, I am delighted we are installing these new EV charging points in our carpark.
“Tamworth Borough Council’s climate emergency declaration recognises that urgent action is required to reduce carbon emissions resulting from the council’s activities, as rapidly as possible with the goal of becoming net zero by 2050, aspiring to do so by 2030.
“These charging points demonstrate our commitment to improving EV facilities at our off-street parking locations and supports our long-term plan to becoming net zero.”
In July this year, Tamworth Borough Council received six new electric vehicles to add to their Street Scene fleet of 26 vehicles.
The council will be focusing on decreasing emissions produced by the council’s fleet, alongside promoting the use of low-emission vehicles and developing the infrastructure to support this.
Notes:
The Department for Transport has set a key date of 2030 to have 300,000 public charge points in the UK. As of October 2022, there were some three hundred public charge points in Staffordshire, and therefore the task is to grow this number by approximately three thousand charge points in Staffordshire over the next seven years.
In 2019, Tamworth Borough Council declared a ‘Climate Emergency’ which accepts that urgent action is required to reduce carbon emissions resulting from the Council’s activities. The declaration was based on the ‘Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C’, published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October 2018. This identified the catastrophic consequences that a 2°C average rise in global temperatures would cause in comparison with a 1.5°C rise in temperature.