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 on
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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 on
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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 on
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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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Re: Freedom of Information Act Request ref: FOI/162
Thank you for your request for information received on 14/05/2025, in which you asked for the following:
In EV parking in the borough the number of cars which overstay in a EV charging bay by over 15mins after charging.
2. How many parking tickets were issues to non-EV cars parked in EV bays.
3. The number of EV resident parking permits issued in 2023/2024/2025.
4. The number of EV parking spots provided in the borough in 2023/2024/2025 and intended for the rest of 2025/2026/2027.
My response is as follows:
- We do not hold this data.
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On-street PCN contravention
Number of PCNs issued between 1st January 2024 – 31st May 2025
23(1 - Parked in a parking place or area not designated for that class of vehicle (electric vehicles bay)
53
23(9 - Parked in a parking place or area not designated for that class of vehicle (electric vehicle car club bay)
30
23(a - Parked in a parking place or area not designated for that class of vehicle (permit holder only electric vehicle charging bay)
10
- There are no specific EV resident parking permits. From April 2025 Haringey updated the Resident Permit charging structure to introduce a specific EV charge tier. Since introduction of this change,243 resident permits have been issued to vehicles in this EV charge tier.
- A total of152 EV charging points/bays were provided in 2023/2024/2025. There are no plans at present to install any further EV charging points as the council is in process of procuring new contracts. The plans for 2025/2026/2027 will be determined once the procurement process is completed and new contracts are in place.
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Not surprised they don’t know about over-stay charges as that’s done by Total Energies at the moment… but the second point is interesting - only 53 PCNs in the whole borough in 5 months for ICE vehicles in EV bays?! I could count the number of times there hasn’t been an ICE vehicle in one of the bays on Rutland Gardens on one hand… if the council enforced this better perhaps they wouldn’t need their new cash grab from legitimate users…
Not sure there’s much to be learned from the rest of this. In my experience - obviously only of chargers around the ladder - availability these days is good (I can never seem to get on my closest chargers on Pemberton, and my point about Rutland Gardens stands, but I can pretty much always find a space on Hewitt or Allison). Wider statistics from the DVLA might help to understand the demand in residential areas and give a sense of whether there is any need to ‘increase turnover’ of these spaces as the council wants to do. Except at the end of the day, that’s not how any of this works… 🫠🫠🫠
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Isn’t the main thing to garner here that Haringey clearly don’t have any data-based justification for their “turnover” argument? They don’t even have the data for it but yet it’s such a great issue!
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Yea that was the piece I was most interested in. Very much like the argument for getting rid of daily permits, there was no data to justify the reasoning behind it.
I'll probably go back at the end of the year to find out how the numbers of EV's in the borough have grown given they only introduced the permit in April.
I'll also be interested in where they go in terms of charging points given it looks like they're looking to cut a new deal.
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Permalink Reply by Nigel
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53 such PCNs in 17 months, ie less than 4 per month!
Even if you add in class 23(9) and assume the vehicles so parked were all ICE rather than non-car club, that's still less than 5 per month.
Once again, Madames Cunningham and Chandwani have no or no reliable evidence in support of their proposed traffic and parking measures, which KatieH describes as a 'cash-grab".
Can anybody tell us where these initiatives begin? Is it the Council officers or the elected councillors they are supposed to answer to?
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