Crookes residents are the most eager to transition to electric cars according to a Sheffield Councillor, aligning with the city’s ambitions to be ‘zero carbon’ by 2030.

Crookes has the highest request rate for the EV charging points which will be installed as part of a city-wide £318k pilot to help residents transition to less polluting vehicles.

This project began in November 2023 with Flodden Street, Crookes being one of the key locations the council have selected.

Since the council introduced the Electric Vehicle Public Charger Demand Tracker map, residents can now pinpoint where they want these chargers to be via the Have Your Say webpage.

Councillor Minesh Parekh (Crookes and Crosspool) has now said: “We know that there is high demand for this—on the Council’s “public charger demand tracker”, Crookes currently has the highest number of requests.

“For areas like Crookes, with lots of terrace housing and lack of off-street parking, traditional EV charging infrastructure (facilitated through a garage or drive) won’t work.”

Councillor Ben Miskell, Chair of the Transport, Regeneration and Climate Committee, said: “It’s been a year since the Clean Air Zone was first introduced and I want to thank the people of Sheffield and businesses in the area for their response. The data is showing that people are making the switch to cleaner vehicles.”

Greg Fell, Director of Public Health said: “Air pollution contributes to one in 20 deaths in Sheffield, so we’ve got to reduce emissions to protect our health and to protect the environment around us.”

Councillor Parekh said that if this transition to electric vehicles reduces air pollution to non-harmful levels, ‘then the need for the CAZ is removed and it would no longer run’.

He said: “If this can be scaled then there will be wide benefits such as cleaner air, less noise pollution from traffic, and greater likelihood of a liveable post-carbon society.”