BRADFORD Council’s policy of requiring new homes to include electric car charging points is being tested by a developer.
In recent years the authority has made it a condition of all housing applications that include car parking to have a charging point.
But now a developer has submitted a planning application to remove that condition from a development of houses in Shipley, saying the charging points are not needed, as none of the new residents have electric cars.
POD Point installed (Image: T. Heale)
In 2016 Bradford Council granted planning permission to Oak Tree Developments for the demolition of the Bradford Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Springhurst Road and the construction of 14 houses in its place.
One of the conditions of the approval was that a plan for electric vehicle charging points in each of the homes be approved by the Council before the homes were completed.
Planning officers said the condition was necessary “to ensure the development is constructed in an appropriate sustainable manner which takes into consideration air quality with in the District.”
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With the homes now built, Oak Tree has submitted an application to the Council calling for this condition to be removed from its planning approval.
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