On 11/09/2019 17:16, tim... wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at
14:11:32 on Wed, 11 Sep 2019, Robin remarked:
On 11/09/2019 13:51, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:22:29 on Wed, 11 Sep
2019, tim... remarked:

There are lots of people who can't easily have an electric
car, they
include my parents who live in a street of Victorian terraces
with
narrow pavement. However I think more than half the population
could
charge at home.

So what do the other half do..?

Something else. There doesn't need to be one solution for everyone.

but the solution isn't in the hands of individual - I can't just
decide to have a charge point connected to the local street lamppost

No-one can because the street lights are on circuits not much
bigger thanÂ* a 13A ring main, Separate from the supply to
premises. Unless the premisesÂ* supply is on overhead wires
(typically rural areas), when there's a wholeÂ* other set of
constraints in the overall amperage.

HMG has to facilitate it (even if they don't directly provide it)

County Councils provide the street lighting.

not where I live they don't :-)

Â*Unitary Authority?

or London Borough, City of London or Westminster,

If those are equivalent in the distribution of civic responsibilities
to a unitary authority, then they come into the same basket.

weird isn't it

London Boroughs are technically different to Unitaries but actually
identical

yes - and um, well, it all depends

the problem is that "unitary authority" doesn't have a single, canonical
meaning[1]



I suppose more things have been given to the Mayor to look after, but I
don't think that was the case when they were first set up


IIRC there were some pan-London bodies from the outset , but yes it was
the creation of the GLA that took away strategic functions like planning
and transport.

[1] Hence eg the Crossrail Act needed to define

“unitary authority� means—
(a) the council of any county so far as it is the council for an area
for which there are no district councils;
(b) the council of any district comprised in an area for which there is
no county council;
(c) the council of a London borough;
(d) the Common Council of the City of London.



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