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EVCP remote from buildings

Rich Mc

Unusual one, we have a design situation where a number of dwellings are located across a highway from their designated parking bays, no driveways. The highway is owned by the development site (landlord) and I am not sure if it will be adopted in the future. The landlord has asked if we can install EVCP's on each of the designated parking bays supplied from the residents supply for the sole use of the individual residents. Obviously an EVCP per property is not an issue but where they are wanted to locate them is. 

It brings up a host of compliance issues that may have a bearing including Highways act, Regulation 411.3.1.1 exposed conductive parts on the same earthing system, cables below ground across the 3rd party land, TN-C-S earthing systems, whether it would become an 'on street' installation because it is remote from the property, volt drop (approx 40m from the property), is emergency switching required and where, etc, etc. 

The question is, (and I feel this shouldn't even be considered!) but is this possible and if not what regulation(s) or legislation refers? I can't find anything at this stage that would be insurmountable given the will to make it happen but that doesn't sit right. 

I personally would not suggest this is possible for a host of those reasons above but does anyone have any similar experience of this request or can anyone point out any clear regulation or legislation why this would not be possible? 

Thanks in advance

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    Private cables across even an adopted highway is certainly possible. One place where I used to work we had offices on opposite sides of a side-road and we ended up running ducting between the two so everyone could be on the same network (this was the days before VPN over public internet). I'm not saying it was easy - I gather there was a lot of paperwork with the local authority and lots of hoops to jump through - but definitely possible.

    Likewise TTing the charge points, possibly with a common bond between them if they or the cars would be within reach of each other, sounds like a plausible answer to most of the technical problems.

    Usually there's some way of restricting use of a charge point to the owner - some will be controllable by suitable apps that have to be paired through a suitable security procedure - or failing that just an isolator inside the house so the owner can keep it switched off until their car is parked there.

       - Andy.

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    Private cables across even an adopted highway is certainly possible. One place where I used to work we had offices on opposite sides of a side-road and we ended up running ducting between the two so everyone could be on the same network (this was the days before VPN over public internet). I'm not saying it was easy - I gather there was a lot of paperwork with the local authority and lots of hoops to jump through - but definitely possible.

    Likewise TTing the charge points, possibly with a common bond between them if they or the cars would be within reach of each other, sounds like a plausible answer to most of the technical problems.

    Usually there's some way of restricting use of a charge point to the owner - some will be controllable by suitable apps that have to be paired through a suitable security procedure - or failing that just an isolator inside the house so the owner can keep it switched off until their car is parked there.

       - Andy.

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    AJJewsbury said:
    Private cables across even an adopted highway is certainly possible. One place where I used to work we had offices on opposite sides of a side-road and we ended up running ducting between the two so everyone could be on the same network (this was the days before VPN over public internet). I'm not saying it was easy - I gather there was a lot of paperwork with the local authority and lots of hoops to jump through - but definitely possible.

    Won't disagree, but I've worked somewhere where they just put in a microwave link to achieve the same goal. But that's not without its "paperwork" either.

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