A retired car mechanic has been battling the council for six months over an EV charger.
A resident of Oldham claims he is being ‘blocked’ by the council from charging his electric car at home. David Kelsall has been pleading with the council for six months to let him charge his car on the street outside his home.
He went on: “I’m totally dependent on my pacemaker. A watch battery is keeping me alive. People like me and others with health conditions and disabilities should not have to use a public charger. It’s unsafe. “ But with his health complications and the significantly higher cost of public charging points, led him to appeal to the council to let him install on-street parking.
Councillor Chris Goodwin, whose portfolio covers highways, said: “We are still waiting for guidance to be published and in the meantime are working with Transport for Greater Manchester to develop a regional approach. Yet advice on a government website suggests residents can install on-street chargers, so long as they can ‘safely charge when parked on the street’ and ‘have planning permission’ so long as cables that cross footways are ‘inside a proper cable protector’. Local authorities like Milton Keynes and Bolton are piloting their own on-street parking schemes with designs that are fitted in ridges across the pavement using government funding.
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