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Armitt believes the private sector should be responsible for installing networks of chargers, albeit under direction from Westminster, but also made it clear that central and local government have a role to play in helping to improve charging networks by 2030.
“Clearly the planning laws can have an influence on it,” he said. “[The] government and local authorities could be saying ‘car parks should have 20% of the spaces allocated to electric vehicle charging in the future’. That’s a fairly easy thing to stipulate. The local authority might not own car parks, but it will have powers over how they’re operated.”