London councils accused of holding up rollout of electric car charging points

Energy company SSE claims thousands of new points are in bureaucratic limbo

Britain has thousands fewer electric car charging points than required because councils are frustrating their rollout, according to one of the country's biggest energy companies.

Big six energy firm SSE said that when it started work three years ago, it had hoped to install 6,000 charging points in London by now, but had fitted just 762 because of delays by local authorities.