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Speaking of planning approvals the following Fastned sites have recently received planning approval:
 
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simcity said:
Speaking of planning approvals the following Fastned sites have recently received planning approval:
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Newark is going to be ridiculously well served by rapids. Could we have some a bit further down the A1? (Stamford still only has a single one. And it’s a GeniePoint)
 
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urpert said:
Newark is going to be ridiculously well served by rapids. Could we have some a bit further down the A1? (Stamford still only has a single one. And it’s a GeniePoint)
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There's several around Peterborough!
8 Instavolts at Starbucks in Ortongate Retail Park (mostly new, when I went there they only had 2)
And 2x Gridserve and 6 x Ionity at the Peterborough services, but it's a horrid dump (like any MSA)
6 x Ionity at Baldock
And apparently 22 CCS plugs on 14 Stations Applegreen at South Mimms
 
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Anahata said:
There's several around Peterborough!
8 Instavolts at Starbucks in Ortongate Retail Park (mostly new, when I went there they only had 2)
And 2x Gridserve and 6 x Ionity at the Peterborough services, but it's a horrid dump (like any MSA)
6 x Ionity at Baldock
And apparently 22 CCS plugs on 14 Stations Applegreen at South Mimms
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Still a pretty big hole between Peterborough and Grantham though. The single ancient rapid at Ponton South has been dead for years. Though I did forget there is InstaVolt at Colsterworth now
 
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Anahata said:
There's several around Peterborough!
8 Instavolts at Starbucks in Ortongate Retail Park (mostly new, when I went there they only had 2)
And 2x Gridserve and 6 x Ionity at the Peterborough services, but it's a horrid dump (like any MSA)
6 x Ionity at Baldock
And apparently 22 CCS plugs on 14 Stations Applegreen at South Mimms
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There's the Shell at Buckden halfway between Peterborough and Baldock too.
 
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Spotted some new Fastned chargers just off A1(M) junction with A167 Newton Aycliffe / Darlington north at that new services come fast food carpark looked inpressive. No access north on A167 as they are working on the flyover roundabout maybe having to lay cables over the A1(M)
Might have been in the Aycliffe plan from 1977 like a lot of stuff but great to see actual results. Very handy
 
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Considered1 said:
Spotted some new Fastned chargers just off A1(M) junction with A167 Newton Aycliffe / Darlington north at that new services come fast food carpark looked inpressive. No access north on A167 as they are working on the flyover roundabout maybe having to lay cables over the A1(M)
Might have been in the Aycliffe plan from 1977 like a lot of stuff but great to see actual results. Very handy
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Good spot!

This is it...Forest Park, Durham. 10 bays / 5 x dual-head Alpitronic charge points

Links to planning in the OP.

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Considered1 said:
Spotted some new Fastned chargers just off A1(M) junction with A167 Newton Aycliffe / Darlington north at that new services come fast food carpark looked inpressive. No access north on A167 as they are working on the flyover roundabout maybe having to lay cables over the A1(M)
Might have been in the Aycliffe plan from 1977 like a lot of stuff but great to see actual results. Very handy
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When I was looking at this location I noticed there’s actually a Jet Charge hub with 5 x 150 kW Alpitronic units installed there - Newton Park Service Station:

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There’s also 4 x 120 kW BYD units at Instavolt in the car park of McDonalds there too.

There will be plenty of options there once Fastned goes live.
 
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Yep there is, hopefully some competition for prices. Come on Tesla
 
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electric_dreams said:
There's the Shell at Buckden halfway between Peterborough and Baldock too.
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As well as Osprey & Tesla superchargers (O2A) in St Neots. Both co-located at amenities with food and drink available in daylight hours.
I'd not bother with the Shell @ Buckden, the reviews aren't good. 50% of chargers dead for instance. They are using Tritium 175kW units there.
 
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simcity said:
Fastned are appealing their Flamingo Park planning refusal (planning has been rejected twice) with the Planning Inspectorate. See APP/G5180/W/24/3341221

Comments etc are open until 17 June.
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This location was refused because it isn't in keeping with the Metropolitan Green Belt?

The proposal would comprise inappropriate development within the Metropolitan Green Belt by definition, it would fail to preserve its openness and conflict with the purposes of including land within the Green Belt. There are no Very Special Circumstances existing in this instance to clearly outweigh the identified harm. The proposal would conflict with Policy G2 of the London Plan 2021, Policy 49 of the Bromley Local Plan 2019, and paragraphs 143 and 155 of the NPPF 2021.
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Are the planners absolutely mad? What about this area is delightful and worth preserving? The area of land is mostly concrete anyway. There's only a little bit of green space around it - sure, preserve that, no problem, but the rest is a bloody hand car wash probably staffed by people getting well below minimum wage cash in hand...
 
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Planning in this country is such a mess.

Anything other than a literal rubbish tip would be a better development for that site currently. I'm genuinely baffled. I hope the Inspectorate does overturn it, because this screams of a planning officer with some kind of malicious intent (interest in the site? lives next door? hates EVs? likes that car wash?) rather than a reasonably balanced decision.
 
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tom66 said:
Planning in this country is such a mess.

Anything other than a literal rubbish tip would be a better development for that site currently. I'm genuinely baffled. I hope the Inspectorate does overturn it, because this screams of a planning officer with some kind of malicious intent (interest in the site? lives next door? hates EVs? likes that car wash?) rather than a reasonably balanced decision.
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Tell 'em Tom. Don't waste your breath here. I've written in support twice now of that application but Bromley are sadly just as shit as Islington and probably as corrupted as East Suffolk in my (terrible) experiences of both.

I'll write to the P.I. to put my views over.
 
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In cases like this, isn't it common for a company like Fastned to plant some trees on the site to replace any that are 'harmed' by the development? And then those trees are maintained by the CPO, rather than being the council's responsibility.

I bet the ICE cars that go past cause far more harm than a few trees being lopped down anyway... Oh did I say the quiet part out loud again, about how most environmentalism is not really about saving the environment, but about covering for NIMBYism?
 
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