charles wrote:
In article , Theo
wrote:
We already have a solution for this - it's what happens with dropped
kerbs. If you want a dropped kerb outside your house you ask the council
for permission, pay the fee, their contractor comes and makes it for you.

You could imagine the same principle for charge points - apply to the
council, council electrician comes and installs approved charge point in
the road, wired in to your electricity supply, council makes good the
pavement. You get a proper 32A (or whatever) fast charging point outside
your house.

But you don't have a reserved parking space outside your house.

But you do get a reserved space outside your house if you get a dropped kerb
installed. OK you aren't supposed to park on it, but it is effectively
reserved for your use (to come and go to your drive) - people aren't allowed
to park in it and so it reserves a little bit of your street.

The issue of 'reserving' a bit of public infrastructure for your sole use
would go away if the charging points were on a public charging network as it
wouldn't be your reserved space any more.

Theo