Electric car chargers

To help residents with on-street parking make the switch to electric vehicles, the Virgin Media Park and Charge project is installing on-street charging sockets across Northampton.

Using existing Virgin Media street cabinets and ducts, on-street electric vehicle charging points will be installed by Liberty Charge and entirely funded by Innovate UK after consultation in 2020:

St. James Park Road, NN5 5EL
Upper Thrift Street, NN1 5HR
Ardington Road, NN1 5NE
Barry Road, NN1 5HU
Oakwood Road, NN1 4SX
Semilong Road, NN2 6BU
Vicarage Road, NN5 7AX

Each site will have two charging points, capable of charging two cars each, totalling four bays. Two bays will be designated 'electric vehicles only' via a Traffic Regulation Order, but the remaining bays can also be designated at a later stage.

Each charging point is rated at 22kW/h – if two cars are charging from the same charge point, then they will each receive 11kW/h.

We want to hear from our residents on where charge points should be provided in the future, particularly on-street locations.

Existing charge points can be found on Zap Map.

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Last updated 21 March 2022