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Local Residents Article, Peacehaven Community Market info, CTLA.
from March 2022 Edition
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Local residents frustration at lack of Electric vehicle infrastructure
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In Seaford (over 23,000 residents) there is ONE public charger available - in an awkward position in the basement of Morrison's car park - that's if it's working and you have to have already signed up to a specific charging app/website which costs a lot to use. In Peacehaven/Telscombe/Saltdean, there is ONE public charger in the local garage for a population of over 21,000 people. Out of the three charging cables, you can only use one at a time because of an Amazon collection point with barriers located next to it. I have an electric vehicle and have installed a charging point with the help of a small grant from the Government - which only met a quarter of the cost as I had to have significant electrical upgrades to install a faster charging point. I have to carefully plan my journeys to ensure I don't run out of charge before getting back to my charging point. I have allowed other people in the Havens locally to use my point - including a stranded plumber who had been sent down in his electric van from London to do a job and found no working charging points at the time he needed it! So for a population of well over 50 THOUSAND residents in the Havens coastal stretch, there are two working (expensive) public chargers - not to mention all those coming into the towns between Seaford and Saltdean to work or for leisure.
Not really good enough, is it? Paula Woolven Frustrated EV owner Telscombe Cliffs
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