Pedestal for houses with no driveway

We regularly use the public realm to facilitate the activities of private individuals, we also regularly use the margins of pavements to facilitate infrastructure such as signage and poles. So long as design standards are followed which result in sensibly sized pavements designed to enable use by vulnerable road users such as wheelchair users and buggies are followed it shouldn't be a problem.

I wouldn't see this style becoming common on narrow streets such as below, where islanding onto the roadway would be a much better option.

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In practice this is much less of an issue than most people think it is. In estates with "shared" parking people usually come to arrangements regarding who's space is whose. It's only in the relatively few truly shared streets where a more communal system from a centralised provider is better. We need to make sure that people without driveways aren't left behind, townhouses are a much better use of limited living space than everyone having driveways, it's just all part of a broader consideration of how we plan our communities.

My own preference would be for neighbourhoods to have underground garages built under the roadway. That way we can keep the streets for people.

One of the simplest mechanisms to protect roadside infrastructure from encroachment is via the use of kerbing. Installing charging posts on a small approx. 20cm jutting out kerb will lead to a need for wider parking spaces to give adequate safe clearance, a much better idea is to provide a continuous kerb between them, we call this pavement. This avoids extra trip hazard due to have a continuous kerb.

An ideological approach of stick them in the road because only vehicle owners is ridiculous compared to a more joined up approach of design the streetscape to suit all users. The streetscape refers to all the space between private land either side of the road. For narrower roads I'd much prefer to see chargers combined with tree planting to create islands between spaces which has the extra benefit of narrowing the street to reduce speed.

In modern developments where we rely on townhouses and terraces with shared parking due to their more efficient land use as mentioned by @John_Rambo. We should be designing the streets in such a way that the addition of charging points is not taking away from suitable pavement widths.

To address the jutting out kerb that I outlined in message you quoted.

Leading to a need for a wider space which would mean space needs to be taken from somewhere else. Far better to have a straight kerb and have the space between used as extra width on the pavement like we do for all other roadside infrastructure.

I mocked up two pictures of how this could work. The first is a workable system that can be used to retrofit residential charging capabilities into existing sustainable streets in a way that isn't pulling the ladder up behind people who either can't afford a house with a private driveway or have deliberately picked a property with a more efficient land use.

The 2nd almost certainly wouldn't be accepted as a retrofit, the parking spaces no longer meet size requirements. It's different if the whole street is designed this way from day one, in which case I'd be extending the jutting out bit to the edge of the road anyway and adding plants to the rest of it.

A full retrofit to change the layout of the street to install islands every two spaces is well beyond the capacity of any individual property owner.

The good reasons have been outlined to you, if your choosing to ignore the fact that people without their own driveways have needs then I can only assume it's out of some form of elitism and that you feel more land should be in private possession instead of the more sustainable shared usage and integrated streetscapes that we see in sustainable focused countries.

I prefer to think of streets as a community resource and not simply racetracks for people to pass through as quickly as possible, serving the needs of people in the area should be the priority not pandering to those who are simply using it as a short cut.

Your insistence on complicated street redesigns to accommodate their ability to charge versus installation of singular charging posts where there is space is effectively blocking them. It's a great tactic to ensure that people who can't afford a private driveway are blocked.

No private homeowner is going to be allowed to perform a complete redesign of the public realm in the way you envisage.

Think it through, you are now re arranging all of the parking spaces and other infrastructure on the street to build out the islands for the charging posts. Do you think you as an individual is going to be facilitated in doing that?

Each street needs to be treated differently, for the old style terraced streets like you see in Stoneybatter it's absolutely going to need to be council led and have designed out islands sitting between spaces, with a charging service provider running the AC point. For the more modern estates like the one shown in my mock-up, enabling charge point installation at the kerbside is a much more sensible prospect as there is more than adequate space at the kerbside for a safe and sensible installation without the need for a full blown redesign of the streetscape.

It's not 10cm further, you need around 20cm clearance around any pole that's sticking up in to the roadway. At that point you need to re layout the parking bays on the street to give suitable sizes.

Where am I brushing over the needs of pedestrians, the area of installation is commonly used when we're putting up any other infrastructure in the same places such as signage and bollards. Why is it only when the pole is doing something constructive for a person that lives on the street that you have a problem? The street is for the people that live on it.