Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
New EV parking charges WILL affect residents - more than doubling charging costs
Further to this thread, I have finally received a response from Cllr Cunningham (via Cllr Abela) regarding the proposal by Haringey Council to introduce new parking charges for users of EV charging bays in the borough - and she has confirmed that it WILL include local residents who will be required to pay the additional parking charges on top of their usual resident’s permit for the area, as well as the costs of charging (which are currently advertised by Total Energies as being inclusive of the cost of parking).
This will more than double the cost of a 5-hour charging session (a full charge for an average EV) - from £16.80 (based on the residents’ rate of 48p/kWh and a 7kW charging speed) to £34.95 (including 5 hours’ parking at £3.63 per hour). I’m sure for most this will make the cost of charging locally entirely unaffordable - driving them either to charge further afield (eg at petrol stations where the costs are higher albeit cheaper than what Haringey is planning) or to give up their electric cars entirely.
The consultation document was very unclear as to whether the is new charge would apply to residents - as such I believe making the consultation on this aspect unfair (and of course the visitor parking permit issues rightly took centre stage in the consultation anyway). However it is not clear that there is any recourse to further action at this point, leaving me and no doubt all EV owners locally in an impossible situation.
If anyone else feels concerned by this, I would urge you to email your local councillor and Ann Cunningham, Head of Highways and Parking (Ann.Cunningham@haringey.gov.uk) to raise your concerns and please share this information with others who might be interested, as it doesn’t seem to be widely known.
Tags for Forum Posts: ev charging, ev charging costs
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Permalink Reply by Rich
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I think there is a not missing
There are currently no plans to exempt residential permit holders from this new charge. Residential parking permits are intended to allow residents to park near their homes and this does NOT extend to parking in shared use parking bays that allows those permits holders to park commercial areas or near other places on interest.
So I guess they are saying paid parking bays are not ment for residents, but for visitors to the area, how this extends to EV bays I'm not so sure
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Permalink Reply by Tigi Gigi
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Yes. Doesn’t make any sense to resident permit holders using EV bays in their own permit area, is the answer! Either you have your own driveway in which case no need to park within your permit area anyway as you can just walk to a place of interest nearby or you don’t, in which case you need to charge in the EV bay…
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Permalink Reply by Paul
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It would help if their correspondence was in fully formed sentences that left no room for misinterpretation.
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