Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy 

Transport is the UK’s largest emitting domestic sector and the London Borough of Redbridge produces 36% of its emissions from transport. The move to cleaner emissions in road transport is essential for the UK to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, and the recent rapid increase in both the supply of, and the demand for, Electric Vehicles (EVs) means that charging infrastructure now stands as the single biggest challenge to that aim.

The draft EV Strategy has been developed to support a scalable transition to Zero Emission Vehicles over the next 10 years as part of the Borough’s response to the climate emergency.

The vision of the strategy is to facilitate provision of accessible, reliable and inclusive Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure, to all residents, visitors and businesses to ensure that they will have accessible, reliable and inclusive EV charging infrastructure.

The Strategy includes an action plan which outlines how the EV strategy will be delivered, supporting achievement of the key objectives and realisation of the vision. There are proposed actions for each objective which are categorised into four time frames: short-term (next 1-2 years), medium-term (3-5 years), long-term (6-10 years) and ongoing (with no end date).

The key commitments outlined in the draft Strategy are:

• 1,000 charge points to be installed by 2026.
• Every resident to be within a 5-minute walk of a charge point by 2026 and within a 3-minute walk of a charge point by 2030.
• All council light vehicles and vans to be Zero Emission by 2030.
• At least 30 rapid charge points to be available across the borough by 2030.

The public consultation will run for 12 weeks between 4 September 2023 and 26 November 2023. Please ensure you read the draft strategy document and the Baseline report before you fill in the consultation.

Following the public consultation, the Council will review the feedback received from all stakeholders and members of the public and will then confirm details of where suitable adjustment should be made. Final approval for the publication and adoption of the EV Strategy will then be brought before the Council. The EV Strategy is expected to be published in March 2024.

Please also use the map feature below to put a pin where you would like a public on-street EV charge point to be installed.