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Oct 2023
Plan to install electric vehicle charging bays at Harrogate M&S approved
A plan to install eight electric vehicle charging points in the car park at Marks and Spencer’s food hall at Oatlands in Harrogate has been approved.
BP Pulse, which is BP’s electric vehicle charging business, applied to North Yorkshire Council for the scheme in August this year.
The company has an agreement to install high-speed electric vehicle charge points at about 70 M&S stores.
Officers at North Yorkshire Council have now approved the proposal for the Harrogate Oatlands site.
A planning statement by Manchester planning consultants Rapleys LLP on behalf of BP Pulse said the charging points would be located to the north of the store, next to Hookstone Road.
The statement says six of the spaces have their own dedicated charger, and two spaces would share a hyper charger, which is an ultra-fast DC to DC charger that can fully charge batteries in a a few minutes.
One of the spaces would be a disabled bay.
The developer added in its statement:
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