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New homes in England to have electric car chargers by law:
New homes and buildings in England will be required by law to install electric vehicle charging points from next year, the prime minister is set to announce.
The government said the move will see up to 145,000 charging points installed across the country each year.
New-build supermarkets, workplaces and buildings undergoing major renovations will also come under the new law.
The move comes as the UK aims to switch to electric cars, with new petrol and diesel cars sales banned from 2030.
A turkey in every pot, and a charge point in every garage...
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 23 2021, @06:38AM (5 children)
In a land that prides itself on thousand year old buildings, they are changing the building code. Meaning, in a few thousand years, there might be meaningful change.
(Score: 2) by Username on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:17AM (4 children)
I'd like to see someone sue when they renovate one of those medieval castles of theirs.
"Soory governah, this three two meter thick stone wall needs to be taken ah down, and castle fitted with power for muh electric."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 23 2021, @11:57AM
Plenty of national trust properties have EV charge points for visitors already and have done for years. It's entirely possible!
(Score: 2) by quietus on Tuesday November 23 2021, @02:56PM (2 children)
The same is true for renovating your house -- another leg with the UK's (and European governments' in general) plan to attack climate change.
There are about 400,000 listed buildings [historicengland.org.uk] in England alone. Most of them (over 90%) are cottages and other lived-in buildings, which make up the character of a typical English village (or city centre).
It is unclear how you can renovate these without loosing their character. Replacing windows with double or triple glass often isn't possible due to the wall structure. Their casing being generally some kind of PVC isn't helping either. Wall isolation isn't possible without building an extra wall on the inside of the house, making the already small rooms even smaller, and so on.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:29PM (1 child)
400,000 listed buildings means that there are about 27 million homes with no significant historical preservation needs, and probably thousands of offices, shops, and industrial buildings that can also be renovated without any historical preservationist hysterics. So presumably, they'll want to focus on the worst ones of those first, and then figure out how to deal with the listed structures.
I think a lot of Americans think the UK looks like a bunch of castles and stonework villages and such. There's definitely some of that there, but there's also plenty of mid-1950's-style suburbs and modern retail that looks an awful lot like what you'd find in the US. Don't take my word for it, just take a virtual drive around the UK on Google Earth.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Wednesday November 24 2021, @02:48PM
In addition to individually listed buildings there are over 10k "conservation areas" in UK, where whole areas are subject to extra controls, and over a million estimated houses therein (see e.g. https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/energy/downloads/40house/background_doc_K.pdf [ox.ac.uk] ). Even outside of a conservation area you still need planning permission for many renovations, and among the reasons it can be denied for is: not in keeping with the character of the area.