Gavin Lawlor

Under the building regulations authority and you can go and speak to them, but that won't be as necessarily as quick if you get me.

Fire officer is another good way to do it.

If they believe that there's a fire issue, they can make a complaint to the fire officer and that fire officer has significant powers to stop something happening.

It depends on where you want to put it, but if it's on your demised area and you can put the charger in a, what I mean by demised area, if you have a front garden, it's your property, then you can put one on a post inside your property.

Within reason.

There are certain restraints on that.

But if it's across the road, for example, and I know there was an issue in primetime in relation to this in terms of car parking and where do electric car parking stands go?

No.

And there are moves afoot to change this, to put in, within LAM standards, to put in car charging points in housing estates.

So it will change.

Unfortunately, not very quickly, but it will change in due course.

You cannot do that, no.

And people should be very, very careful about, again, going onto the footpath and onto the road because legally that's the council's, if the council is taken in charge, it's council-owned land and you then need a road opening licence and you can be prosecuted under the Roads Act for interfering with the road.

No.

No, that's not the Commission's role.

The Commission's role is to act as a court of appeal, in effect, to a planning application.

So the oversight comes from the Office of the Planning Regulator.

They do have an oversight, but they won't look at specific cases.

They don't deal with individual complaints.

They look at if there's a trend occurring or if there's an issue.