Plans have been submitted to install eight electric vehicle charging points in the car park of Marks and Spencer’s food hall at Oatlands in Harrogate.
BP Pulse, which is BP’s electric vehicle charging business, has applied to North Yorkshire Council for the scheme.
BP Pulse has an agreement to install high-speed electric vehicle charge points at about 70 M&S stores.
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.
A planning document showing the chargers would go alongside Hookstone Road.
The statement said the “modest scale” development was “entirely consistent with the site’s established land use as a car park”.
It added:
“The central imperative of the development, at this site and others nationwide, is part of the inevitable and essential move away from hydrocarbons into a world where net zero carbon transport is the norm.
“The development is a key part of the move to a cleaner energy mix, and should be embraced by the local authority in these terms.”
The council must now decide whether to approve the plans.
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