Councillors will gather next week to decide whether to approve an electric vehicle service station in Holystone.
North Tyneside Council’s planning committee is set to hear an application to develop currently vacant land between Edmund Road and Holystone Way into an electric vehicle charging station. The application also includes a “hub” for the sale of food and drinks.
According to planning documents submitted on behalf of the applicant, Godwin Developments, the plans also include the construction of 30 electric charging bays, 24 standard parking spaces, and a drive-through waiting bay.
The documents submitted to the local authority concluded the scheme “is of appropriate scale and siting for the site, that suitably serves both local and wider communities and provides key new infrastructure as part of the UK’scommitment to transition to electric vehicles.”
The charging points will be operational 24 hours a day, with the hub open between 6am to 11pm. The prospective operator of the site, InstaVolt, has the UK’s largest rapid charging network with over 1,700 chargers “energised or in construction”.
A previous application in 2020 to use the land for six retail units was refused by the local authority on the grounds the proposal would adversely impact neighbouring homes and was too large, at 826sqm. The current proposal sits at only 172sqm.
The scheme has been prompted by the prospective ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035 as part of the government’s ‘Build Back Greener’ strategy for 2050.
The council’s planning committee will gather at 6pm on Tuesday, January 14, to consider the application. Council officers have recommended elected members approve the plans.
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