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(i)       to approve the adoption of the Electric Vehicle Framework included as Appendix 2 of the report;

(ii)       to refer the £675,000 capital investment required to support the 2025 delivery target for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure to the Council’s Budget Setting Process in order to support a further step change in the roll out of the required infrastructure;

(iii)      to instruct the Chief Officers – Strategic Place Planning and City Growth – to explore opportunities for external funding opportunities as well as encouraging and facilitating the entry of commercial operators into the city to support the further roll out of charging infrastructure in order to meet demands post 2025;

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning, in consultation with the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services and the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment, to explore opportunities to pilot onstreet charging infrastructure in the city; and

(v)      to instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning to reflect an increasing role for the transition to electric vehicles against the policy background from both the UK and Scottish Governments to have phased out the need for new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning which sought approval to adopt the Electric Vehicle (EV) Framework for Aberdeen and to note the accompanying Evidence Base and Baseline Report.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      approve the adoption of the Electric Vehicle Framework included as Appendix 2 of the report;

(b)      refer the £675,000 capital investment required to support the 2025 delivery target for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure to the Council’s Budget Setting Process in order to support a further step change in the roll out of the required infrastructure;

(c)      instruct the Chief Officers – Strategic Place Planning and City Growth to explore opportunities for external funding opportunities as well as encouraging and facilitating the entry of commercial operators into the city to support the further roll out of charging infrastructure in order to meet demands post 2025;

(d)      instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning, in consultation with the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services and the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment, to explore opportunities to pilot onstreet charging infrastructure in the city; and

(e)      instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning to reflect an increasing role for the transition to electric vehicles against the policy background from both the UK and Scottish Governments to have phased out the need for new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030.

The Convener, seconded by the Vice Convener moved:-

that the Committee approve the recommendations contained within the report.

Councillor Cooke, seconded by Councillor McRae moved as an amendment:-

           that the Committee –

(1)    approve the recommendations contained within the report; and

(2)    instruct the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning to prepare Aberdeen Planning Guidance in respect of the minimum requirements for EV charging points on new developments in line with the anticipated growth in the number of electric vehicles under the ‘Exemplar Scenario’; and report back to the Planning Development Management Committee within two cycles and to include EV charging within the future revision to the Supplementary Guidance: Transport and Accessibility.

On a division, there voted:- for the motion (5) – the Convener, the Vice Convener and Councillors Boulton, Houghton and Laing; for the amendment (4) – Councillors Cooke, McRae, Nicoll and Yuill.

The Committee resolved:-

to adopt the motion.