On-Street Residential Charging for electric vehicles - Find a freedom of information request

Information relating to On-Street Residential Charging for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs).

1. How many public charging outlets or charge points for electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles have you installed to date in your local authority? Please provide figures to the nearest possible date and include the month and the year the figures correspond to.

a. For Question 1, how many of the public charging outlets or charge points are those classed as On-Street Residential Charge points, located on-street in residential streets or areas?

2. How many public charging outlets or charge points for electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles do you plan to install in the current fiscal year or the current calendar year? Please provide figures to whichever timeframe corresponds with your reporting.

3. How many of the planned public charging outlets or charge points are classed as On-Street Residential Charge points, to be installed in on-street residential areas?

4. Do you have a published strategy for On-Street Residential charging infrastructure? Yes/no

5. Do you have a dedicated Policy Officer (or equivalent) responsible for your electric vehicle charging infrastructure? Yes / No

6. Has your local authority submitted an application or multiple applications for the On-Street Residential Charge point Scheme (ORCS)?

7. How much funding has the local authority applied for in total? The figures can include funding yet to be received.

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. Approximately 20 up until 5 December 2022

a. None

2. Approximately 100 with the majority being standard 7kW during 2023/24

3. Approx 100

4. Not especially for infrastructure but there we do have wider EV strategy available via https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/directory-record/71022/electric-vehicle-strategy

5. No

6. No

7. Lincolnshire County Council as lead authority, Herefordshire Council, Leicestershire County Council, Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Rutland Council came together with the support of Midlands Connect as a consortium to jointly bid for Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) pilot in 2022 and which was successful in securing £948,035 of grant funding to be shared out across the five local authorities, which is also expected to attract an additional £2.8million of private sector investment.