“Poole is home for us — we work out of Creekmoor, so I'm rarely more than fifteen minutes from a job, whether it's a driveway in Canford Heath or a place down on the harbour at Sandbanks. EV charging looks simple, and on a modern estate house it usually is. But the part that actually matters is what's behind the wall: whether your board can take the circuit, what your main fuse will carry, and how we protect the install against a supply fault. I'll look at all of that before I quote, recommend the right charger for your car and your tariff, and give you one fixed price.”
— Tim Collier, Founder & NICEIC Engineer
Poole EV Charger Pricing
Every price below includes the dedicated circuit, the protective devices required by the 18th Edition, testing, NICEIC certification, and tidy cable containment. We quote a fixed price after a free survey — no estimates that change on the day. If your board needs upgrading first, we quote that together so it stays one job.
| Package | Price |
|---|---|
| Standard install (you supply the charger) | From £450 |
| Easee One — supply & install | From £750 |
| Ohme Home Pro — supply & install | From £850 |
| Pod Point Solo 3 — supply & install | From £850 |
| Tesla Wall Connector — supply & install | From £900 |
| Zappi (solar divert) — supply & install | From £950 |
| Three-phase charger (where supply allows) | From £1,500 |
| Longer cable run | From £15 / metre |
Eligible for the £350 EV chargepoint grant? That applies to flats and rented homes (not owner-occupiers with a driveway) — we handle the paperwork. See the FAQs below.
Which Charger Is Right for Your Poole Home?
There's no single best charger — the right one depends on your car, your electricity tariff, and whether you have (or plan) solar. Here's how we match them up:
- On Intelligent Octopus Go (or a similar smart tariff)? The Ohme Home Pro integrates directly with Octopus and schedules charging into the cheapest overnight window automatically. It's our most common recommendation in Poole.
- Want a clean all-rounder? The Easee One has dynamic load balancing — useful if your main fuse is on the smaller side — and can be upgraded to three-phase later.
- Have solar panels (or planning them)? The Zappi's Eco and Eco+ modes divert spare solar generation into the car, so you charge from the sun rather than the grid.
- Drive a Tesla? The Tesla Wall Connector integrates with the Tesla app and still works with any other EV via the Type 2 connector.
- Want simple and reliable? The Pod Point Solo 3 is a no-frills 7kW unit with app scheduling.
We'll talk through your driving habits and supply at the survey. For a full side-by-side, read our EV charger comparison guide.
EV Charging Across Poole — What Your Street Means for the Install
Poole isn't one type of property. The install on a 1990s estate house in Canford Heath is nothing like one on a Victorian terrace in the Old Town or a detached house on the Sandbanks peninsula. Four broad situations cover most of what we see:
Modern estates with driveways — Canford Heath, Creekmoor, Hamworthy, Upton
This is the straightforward case. Off-street parking, a reasonably modern consumer unit, and a short cable run to the wall. Most of these are a half-day 7.4kW install with nothing more involved than confirming the board has capacity. BH16 and BH17 are full of this housing.
The premium coast — Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Lilliput, Penn Hill (BH13)
Higher EV ownership, bigger plots, and detached garages set back from the parking spot mean longer cable runs and a premium on doing it discreetly — recessed runs, tidy containment, no surface clutter. Salt air this close to the water means we specify properly weather-rated units and glands. A handful of these properties have a three-phase supply, which opens up faster 22kW charging.
Period and terraced homes — Old Town, the Quay, Parkstone
Older boards that may need upgrading first, and often no off-street parking. Where you park directly outside, a recessed cross-pavement channel can work — that needs a BCP Council permit, which we handle. Where it doesn't, we look at a wall-mounted unit with neat conduit to legitimate parking, or tell you honestly if a home charger isn't practical.
Flats and town-centre apartments
Around the Quay, the town centre and Penn Hill there are a lot of flats. These need freeholder or management-company permission, and the supply arrangement (often a shared meter room) needs assessing — but flats and renters are exactly who the £350 grant still covers, so the economics can be good. We've done the survey-and-permission dance enough times to guide you through it.
The Electrical Bit — What Actually Goes Into a Safe Install
An EV charger is a 7.4kW load running for hours at a time, so it's treated as its own dedicated circuit, not a spur off something else. Three things decide whether your install is simple or needs extra work:
- Your consumer unit. The charger circuit needs a Type-A or Type-F RCD. If your board already has a spare way and suitable protection, we add the circuit. If it's an older split-load unit or on rewireable fuses, it usually needs upgrading first — we'd quote a consumer unit upgrade alongside.
- Your main fuse and supply. Many Poole homes have an 60A or 80A main fuse. A 7.4kW charger plus a busy household can approach that limit, so where needed we fit a charger with load management (a CT clamp that dials the car back when the house demand is high) rather than risk nuisance trips at the cutout.
- Open-PEN protection. Most local supplies are PME (TN-C-S). The 18th Edition requires protection against a broken neutral fault on the network — we either use a charger with built-in open-PEN detection or provide it another compliant way. This is the bit cheap installs skip; we don't.
For anything over 7.4kW we notify the local network operator, SSEN, as part of the job — you don't have to do anything. Every install ends with a full test and an NICEIC certificate.
What Poole Customers Say
"I have used Lilliput electrical for about 11 years. Tim wired my kitchen extension, and put in a consumer unit when I moved into my home. More recently he has carried out a number of smaller jobs including moving a socket and advising about and fitting lighting. He is always courteous and very helpful. This firm is very trustworthy and the work is tidily completed. I have no hesitation in recommending them as genuinely no job is too big or too small."
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"We have used Lilliput Electrical for the past five years. They have installed numerous items for us in that time, including going out of their way to source out of stock items. They are great to work with and we find them to be reliable and very professional. They are who we shall call for our future electrical needs."
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"Excellent! On time, worked quickly, great manners and most importantly none of the standard cowboy tradesman BS. Highly recommend!! Thanks Tim!"
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Poole Postcode Coverage
We install across every Poole postcode from our Creekmoor base — most of the town is inside a 15-minute radius, which is why we can usually survey the same week.
| Postcode | Area | Typical install |
|---|---|---|
| BH12 | Parkstone, Branksome, Alderney | Mixed 1930s semis & modern infill — most have driveways or side access |
| BH13 | Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Lilliput, Penn Hill | Premium coastal stock — longer garage-to-gate runs, discreet routing, occasional three-phase |
| BH14 | Lower Parkstone, Penn Hill | Edwardian villas & 1960s housing — driveway installs, some board upgrades first |
| BH15 | Poole town centre, Old Town, Hamworthy | Terraces & flats with on-street parking — gully or wall-mount solutions |
| BH16 | Upton, Hamworthy, Lytchett | Modern estates with driveways — straightforward 7.4kW installs |
| BH17 | Creekmoor, Canford Heath, Waterloo | Our home patch — 1980s–2000s estate housing, almost all driveways |
Poole EV Charger FAQs
We're based in Creekmoor (BH17 7DY), so Poole is our home patch — Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Parkstone, Hamworthy and the town centre are all 5–15 minutes away. That means we can usually survey within the same week and book the install shortly after. A standard driveway install is a half-day job. If the survey shows your consumer unit needs upgrading first, or you want a longer cable run, we'll quote both together so there's one fixed price and one visit.
Not always — it depends what's already in your board. An EV charger needs its own dedicated circuit protected by a Type-A (or Type-F) RCD, and the installation has to protect against an open-PEN supply fault. If your consumer unit has a spare way and a suitable RCD, we can often add the circuit cleanly. If it's an older split-load board with only a 30 mA AC-type RCD, no spare ways, or rewireable fuses, you'll usually need a board upgrade first to do the job to the 18th Edition. We check this at the survey and tell you straight — see our <a href="/services/consumer-unit-upgrade/poole/">Poole consumer unit upgrade page</a> if a board change is likely.
Often, yes. Plenty of Poole homes in Old Town, around the Quay and in parts of Parkstone have no off-street parking. The rules are clear: a charging cable can't trail across a public footway as a trip hazard. Where you park directly outside, we can sometimes fit a recessed cross-pavement channel — but that needs permission from BCP Council (Poole is part of BCP), and we handle that application for you. Where that isn't possible, we look at wall-mounted units with tidy conduit to the nearest legitimate parking, or advise honestly if a home charger won't work for your situation. We assess every terraced property individually.
It depends on your property type. The EV chargepoint grant (the scheme that replaced OZEV/OLEV for homes) is worth up to £350, but since 2022 it is no longer available to owner-occupiers with a private driveway. It IS still available if you live in a flat, or you rent your home (and for landlords installing at rental properties). Poole has a lot of flats around the town centre, the Quay and Penn Hill, so this matters here. If you're eligible we complete all the paperwork; if you're not, we'll tell you upfront rather than imply a discount that doesn't apply.
If you're on Intelligent Octopus Go, the Ohme Home Pro is our most common recommendation — it talks directly to Octopus and schedules charging into the cheap overnight window automatically. The Easee One is a strong all-rounder with dynamic load balancing (useful if your main fuse is on the smaller side), and it can be upgraded to three-phase later. If you have solar panels or plan to, the Zappi's eco modes divert spare solar into the car. We match the charger to your tariff, your car and your supply at the survey — there's no single 'best' unit for every home.
Yes — BH13 is one of our most common patches and it's under 12 minutes from base. Coastal and harbourside installs have their own considerations: cable runs from a detached garage to the parking spot can be long, salt air means we specify properly weather-rated units and glands, and the higher EV ownership in BH13 (a lot of Teslas and larger EVs) means we're often asked about faster charging and three-phase supplies. We keep the install discreet — recessed runs and tidy containment matter on these properties.
Only if you have a three-phase supply, which most Poole homes don't — the standard domestic supply is single-phase, which tops out at 7.4kW. In practice 7.4kW adds well over 100 miles of range in a typical overnight charge, so it's plenty for almost every household. Some larger Sandbanks/Canford Cliffs properties do have three-phase, in which case a 22kW Easee or Tesla Wall Connector is an option. We confirm your supply type at the survey before quoting.