EV Charger Installers for UK Property Management & Multi-Tenant Buildings

Multi-tenant EV charging — apartment blocks, mixed-use developments, leasehold flats with shared parking, multi-let industrial estates — is mostly a wiring-and-billing problem with an EV charger on the end of it. Who pays for the supply upgrade, who owns the bay, how is electricity billed back to the tenant who used it, and how does the project sit inside Approved Document S of the Building Regulations? These are the questions that move quotes from indicative to real.

The 1132 installers on this page are all OZEV-authorised for commercial work on the public GOV.UK list. OZEV does not publish a multi-tenant or MUD (multi-unit-dwelling) sub-tag — so this page filters to every commercial OZEV-authorised installer; ask three shortlisted installers for a recent MUD or multi-let reference.

Approved Document S — Building Regs Part S

Since 15 June 2022, Approved Document S of the Building Regulations (England) has required EV charging provision in new buildings and certain major renovations. In summary:

• New residential buildings with associated parking — every dwelling with a parking space gets a charge point; where the residential development has more than 10 parking spaces, additional cable routes are required for spaces not directly served.
• New non-residential buildings with more than 10 parking spaces — at least one charge point, plus cable routes (passive provision) for one in five remaining spaces.
• Major renovations creating >10 parking spaces — equivalent provision applies where the parking is being altered. The regulations apply to England; Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate but broadly similar regimes.

Approved Document S applies to new build and major renovation, not to existing untouched stock. For an existing apartment block adding EV charging today, Part S is the design reference rather than a legal requirement.

Typical multi-tenant scope

• Shared 7–22 kW AC bays in a common car park — billed through a CPO back-office, RFID or app-based.
• Allocated bay charging — one bay per leaseholder, each socket on a sub-meter; electricity billed to the tenant directly.
• Landlord master supply + DNO upgrade — where the existing supply can't take 10–40 sockets, the landlord may need a new connection. Whether that cost sits with the freeholder, leaseholder service charge, or the CPO concession is a legal and commercial question, not a technical one.

The grant picture

• The EV Chargepoint Grant for landlords supports landlords installing chargepoints in residential rental properties — check the live OZEV pages for the current cap, per-applicant ceiling and eligibility before applying.
• The Workplace Charging Scheme applies where the parking serves a workplace tenant — including multi-let industrial estates where each tenant is itself a business with eligible off-street staff parking.

Buying questions a landlord should ask

• Who owns the asset on day one and on day 3,650 — the freeholder, the management company, or the CPO?
• Is electricity sub-metered per socket, and how does billback to the tenant work in practice?
• Is the landlord supply already adequate, or does the project trigger a DNO upgrade — and where does that cost sit in the service charge?
• How is consent from leaseholders managed where the lease is silent on common-area alterations?
• Does the design meet Approved Document S where the building is in scope?