The independent voice in car-park charging
Most of the advice a car-park operator or landowner receives about EV charging comes from someone with a stake in the answer. A charge-point operator (CPO) wants you on their network; a hardware vendor wants to sell their boxes; a generalist electrician wants the install. None of them will tell you neutrally whether you should host a fully-funded operator or own the chargers yourself — because that comparison undercuts their own pitch. That gap is why this guide exists. We have no CPO allegiance and no single-brand tie, so we can set out both routes honestly and show what decides which one wins for a given site.
What we do
We publish guidance for car-park operators, landowners, retail and shopping-centre asset managers, hotels, workplaces and local authorities weighing up EV charging that earns rather than sits idle. The pages cover the questions a project has to answer: your bays, dwell profile, footfall and likely grid capacity; sizing to how long cars actually park, not to the fastest charger on the shelf; the Distribution Network Operator connection process; the grant and tax stack; planning and permitted-development questions; back-office and access control; and the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023 duties that apply to any public charger. We do not install chargers or run a network.
Operator-agnostic, and we name names
Because we don't sell one network, we can discuss the kinds of CPOs and parking operators a car park would encounter without a stake in which one you pick, and explain how a host deal or hardware choice should be tested against your site. We recommend specifying OCPP-open hardware and MID-certified metering as standard, so you are never locked to one vendor's back-office or billing.
How we're set up
This site is published by SEO Dons Ltd (registered in England & Wales, company no. 16766013), a UK digital and renewables specialist. We are a publisher, not an installer: we reply to enquiries by email, and any installation is carried out by an installer you choose. We are a new service, so you won't find us claiming a decade of installs or an invented review score. What we offer is current, whole-of-market guidance, with the standards worth specifying listed below so you can verify them against each issuing body.
The way we work
- Utilisation first. If your dwell time and footfall don't support a charger, the honest answer is no — better than a stranded asset.
- Transparent numbers. Indicative costs and revenue up front, not hidden behind a "get a quote" wall.
- Current facts. The £500/socket Workplace Charging Scheme, the 100% first-year tax allowance, the Public Charge Point Regulations — not the stale figures across the rest of the web.
- Email-first. No cold calls and no phone tag: tell us about your site online. Free to send, no obligation.