Electric vehicle (EV) charging in and around Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire County Council's Electric Vehicle (EV) Chargepoint Framework details how the council aims to work in collaboration with residents, partners, and communities to establish a thriving public chargepoint network across the county.
Its objective is to provide infrastructure that will inspire and reassure residents and visitors to utilise low emissions vehicles in Nottinghamshire, ultimately helping to shape a healthy, green and prosperous future for all.
Mapped public EV charge points across the UK
ZapMap displays a map with the locations and providers of the charge points, the type of charger, its availability and utilisation charges (if applicable) across the UK.
On-street EV charging infrastructure
EV charging cables trailing across the public highway
The County Council does not permit any cable to be placed across the public highway; as it represents a health and safety hazard, and an impediment to the safe use of the highway by the visually and/or mobility impaired, or other affected user groups.
Under the Highways Act 1980 action may be taken to remove cables that are deemed unsuitable or unsafe. This method of on-street EV charging is therefore not considered a suitable approach for residents without off-street parking provision to charge their EV on-street.
On-street EV charging pilot schemes
On-street EV Cable Channels (EVCC) pilot scheme
The report relating to on-street EV charging infrastructure was approved at February 2022 Transport and Environment Committee. Paragraphs 9-15 in the report details the EVCC pilot scheme that is going to be undertaken in the county.
Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Project
In February 2022, a report outlining how the county council will investigate on-street EV infrastructure pilots was approved at Transport and Environment Committee.
As a result, the county council submitted an expression of interest bid for the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) project, which was approved in September 2023. After further approvals in October 2023, the county council received 90% of its £5,522,000 capital funding allocation and following a Transport and Environment Cabinet meeting in November 2024 have been given approval to award the projects contracts.
This project aims to install public on-street EV chargepoints across Nottinghamshire near homes that do not have access to garages, driveways or any other off-street parking.
Off-street EV charging pilot schemes
The D2N2 electric vehicle charging network
Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC), in partnership with Nottingham City (lead authority for this programme), Derbyshire County and Derby City Councils were awarded funding from the Office of Low Emission vehicles (OLEV) to help deliver a number of initiatives to promote and encourage ultra-low emission vehicles through the Go Ultra Low (GUL) programme.
One element of this programme was the expansion of publicly accessible EV charge points to create an area-wide network across the four local authority areas. Charge points have been installed at key off-street locations near major roads, park and ride sites, council-owned car parks and retail outlets.
The D2N2 electric vehicle charging point map includes information on each of the charge points installed through the project, including the 23 sites located within Nottinghamshire.
For further information on this programme, please visit Nottingham City Council’s webpage.
