The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015

Class E – electrical upstand for recharging vehicles E+W

Permitted development E+W

E.  The installation, alteration or replacement, within an area lawfully used for off-street parking, of an upstand with an electrical outlet mounted on it for recharging electric vehicles.

Development not permitted E+W

E.1  Development is not permitted by Class E if the upstand and the outlet would—

[F1 (a) in relation to an upstand and outlet—

(i) within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse or a block of flats, exceed 1.6 metres in height from the level of the surface used for the parking of vehicles; or

(ii) in any other case, exceed 2.3 metres in height from the level of the surface used for the parking of vehicles;]

(b) be within 2 metres of a highway;

(c) be within a site designated as a scheduled monument;

(d) be within the curtilage of a listed building; or

(e) result in more than 1 upstand being provided for each parking space.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E.1(a) substituted (25.5.2019) by The Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development, Advertisement and Compensation Amendments) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/907), regs. 1(2), 5(a)

Conditions E+W

E.2  Development is permitted by Class E subject to the conditions that when the development is no longer needed as a charging point for electric vehicles—

(a) the development is removed as soon as reasonably practicable; and

(b) the land on which the development was mounted or into which the development was set is, as soon as reasonably practicable, and so far as reasonably practicable, reinstated to its condition before that development was carried out.

[F2 Interpretation of Class E E+W

E.3.   For the purposes of Class E—

“block of flats” means a building which consists of at least two flats.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 Class E para. E.3 inserted (25.5.2019) by The Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development, Advertisement and Compensation Amendments) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/907), regs. 1(2), 5(b)