Where to charge my electric vehicle: Over 100 EV charging points on the way including some in Dewsbury, Batley, Liversedge and Cleckheaton
Almost 150 electric vehicle charging points are set to be rolled out across Kirklees by April next year.
The 148 chargers will be gradually installed at 23 locations from this April and funded by cash from the government’s Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund.
Each West Yorkshire districts is getting £282,000 for the plans and Kirklees has been allocated a further £2.2m to deliver a second phase.
A recent meeting of Kirklees Council’s environment and climate change scrutiny panel heard an update on the project.
Here, members were told that the first phase would primarily focus on installing charging points in car parks, whereas the next would target on-street infrastructure, especially in densely terraced areas. Then another phase would fill in any identified gaps.
The full list of areas included in the first phase are as follows:
- Springwood, Spring Wood Street, Huddersfield
- New Street Car Park, Lupton Square, Honley
- Shaw Cross Community Centre, Dewsbury
- New Way Long Stay Car Park, Batley
- High Street Car Park, Birstall
- Camroyd Street Car Park, Dewsbury
- Carlisle Cl, Meltham, Holmfirth
- Station Rd, Holmfirth
- College St, Crosland Moor, Huddersfield
- Wellington Road West Library Car Park, Dewsbury
- John St, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield
- George St, Cleckheaton
- King’s Bridge Road Car Park, Huddersfield
- King St, Heckmondwike
- Meltham Road Car Park, Netherton
- Field Lane Long Stay Car Park, Batley
- War Memorial Car Park, Denby Dale
- Co-Op Car Park, Skelmanthorpe
- Church Street Car Park, Emley
- Harpe Inge, Huddersfield
- Warton St, Liversedge
- School St, Moldgreen Mains Ave, Cowersley
By the end of 2025, Kirklees was in need of 926 public/residential charging points, according to Transport for the North (TfN), but the district only had around 300.
Further figures from TfN show that Kirklees currently has the lowest number of charging points per 100,000 people of any West Yorkshire borough, and will require almost 2,200 by 2030.
Deputy council leader and cabinet member for Transport and Housing, Coun Moses Crook, said: “This programme of expansion of EV charging within Kirklees is aimed at increasing EV take-up and in particular, extending adoption into less affluent residential areas which typically do not have the same access to off-street parking, allowing residents to benefit from very preferential domestic charging rates, making the overall cost of ownership for electric vehicles much more attractive.”