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At last! Electric car

By Steve Keenan

A network of new charge points for electric vehicles is due to go live across North Dorset next month. A total of 44 chargers will be unveiled in Dorset Councilowned car parks, including those in Shaftesbury, Blandford, Gillingham and Sherborne. Work has already begun in providing power to the new sites, carried out by SSE and Western Power Distribution. The charge points will then be installed in mid-February by Joju Charging, which manages similar projects for councils across southern central England. The sites will be live by the end of February, in a move which will greatly extend existing coverage across North Dorset. Contentiously, motorists will be charged both

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Servicing & Repairs sales in 2020. Please call The total share of 01747 853114 or 07546 548017 the new-car market taken by pure-electric cars was 6.6%, while Keeping you on the move... plug-in hybrids had a further 4.1% market INDEPENDENT LAND share. ROVER SPECIALISTS Parts, repairs, servicing, MOT preparation, 42 years’ experience, A number of electric models made the list of top sellers in 01749 880817, December 2020, nicholaspaxton.co.uk with the Tesla Model 3 the best-selling car in December, followed by the Volkswagen ID.3 in fourth place. The Dorset project is being paid for by Joju and funding partner Gronn Kontakt, a subsidiary of Statkraft, a Norwegian renewables firm. In return for providing the sites, Dorset Council will take a slice of the charging revenue for the next 15 years. It’s thought that the charge points will most likely be used by visitors who need a top-up and Dorset Council is now on the lookout for other sites which may include car parks owned by town councils, businesses or leisure interests. Chris Jardine, technical director at Joju Charging, said: “The Government has sent a clear signal with the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030 – the future of transport is electric. That means installing millions of EV chargers in homes, businesses and public places.” Urban areas with suitable power supplies are inevitably going to better served, with the costs of laying low voltage cables to outlying sites driving prices up by tens of thousands. The number of electric vehicle users in any given area is another factor, said Chad Warlow, account manager at JoJu Charging. He added: “At the moment our clients are installing to encourage the uptake of EVs in a given area.” There will have to be moves by Dorset Council to better supply the Blackmore Vale. At present, there is a charge point desert across a large swathe of The Vale and

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Cranborne Chase south of A30, from Salisbury to the A37. But Mr Warlow added that his company would work with Dorset Council to try and identify more sites. “It is a rolling programme over the next few years that aims to ensure geographical coverage, to ensure that no area is left out.” Dorset Council declared a climate emergency in 2019 and is committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2040. It is also committed to helping work towards the whole of Dorset becoming carbon-neutral by 2050. Councillor Ray Bryan said: “Providing drivers with more charge points for their electric vehicles is a step towards carbon-neutral. It also helps make life easier for motorists seeking more environmentally friendly methods of travel. With Government plans to phase out sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030, and more people seeking to go electric, now is the time to offer Dorset’s residents, businesses and visitors sustainable travel options.” The car parks hosting the new charge points in North Dorset are: Langton Road, Blandford; Gas Lane, Gillingham; Bell Street, Shaftesbury; Old Market Yard, Sherborne and Coldharbour, Sherborne. Residents and businesses are encouraged to provide suggestions for locations of further charging points by completing the online form at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/parki ng/charging-your-electricvehicle.aspx

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Motoring & Mobility Legal bid to halt Stonehenge tunnel

By Karen Bate

Campaigners have issued a legal claim in their fight to halt the project that would create a tunnel within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (WHS). Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS) have issued a legal claim after reaching their fundraising target of £50,000 to apply for judicial review of the government’s decision to grant permission. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps approved the scheme in November despite planning officials’ recommendations to refuse the scheme, claiming the project would permanently harm the integrity of the WHS. The SSWHS website stated: “We are overwhelmed by the generosity of over 2,000 donors who have met our stretch target of £50,000 within a month.

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“Thank you all so much for your wonderful support, which means we now have funding to go forward to the next stage.” Tom Holland, president of the Stonehenge Alliance whose supporters set up SSWHS, said: “Let us hope the law can come to the rescue of a landscape that ranks as our most precious and sacred, and which the Government – to its eternal shame – is set on handing over to the bulldozers.” Leigh Day solicitor Rowan Smith said: “Our client strongly believes the Secretary of State’s approach to assessing the harm caused by this road scheme to the heritage assets in the Stonehenge area was unlawful, because he underestimated the overall impact by averaging it out and offsetting the purported benefits before appreciating the true extent of the damage. Our client will argue that, in doing so, the Secretary of State failed to follow national policy and breached international law under the World Heritage Convention.” The tunnel is part of a £1.7bn investment in the A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down. Work to build the two-mile tunnel is set to start in 2023. Highways England said it remains confident the scheme is the best solution for tackling a long-standing traffic bottleneck. It stated: “We will improve the A303 past Stonehenge between Amesbury and Berwick by creating a new dual carriageway with a tunnel, removing traffic from much of this iconic setting.” English Heritage have also approved the scheme, and said by placing the noisy and intrusive A303 within a tunnel will reunite Stonehenge with the surrounding prehistoric landscape. A judge is due to decide whether SSWHS have a case this month.