Every capital investment a holiday park operator makes carries an implicit bet on what guests will expect

in five or ten years' time. New shower blocks, upgraded Wi-Fi, better play areas — all of it is planned

with an eye on the horizon, not just this season's bookings. EV charging deserves exactly the same long-

view treatment, and too often it isn't getting it.

The risk with treating charging as a reactive, minimal-viable addition — a couple of sockets bolted onto

the site office car park — is that it solves this year's guest complaint while creating next year's

infrastructure headache. EV adoption among leisure travellers is only moving in one direction, and a site

that installs the bare minimum today is very likely installing again in three years, at higher cost and with

more disruption to a working site.

The alternative is designing the electrical backbone for where guest demand is heading, even if the full

chargepoint rollout happens in phases. That means specifying underlying cabling, switchgear, and grid

connection capacity for the site's realistic five-to-ten-year guest EV ownership trajectory, then adding

chargepoints to that backbone incrementally as demand actually materialises. The expensive, disruptive

part of any charging project is the underlying electrical work, not the chargers themselves — so it pays

to get that part right once.

This is also where site operators can be smarter about capital allocation. Rather than a single large

investment, a phased rollout — starting with a cluster of chargers near the most premium pitches or

lodges, then expanding based on measured utilisation — spreads cost while still building toward full site

coverage. It also generates real usage data that makes the business case for phase two far more

concrete than a projection ever could.

Grid capacity is worth flagging specifically, because rural and semi-rural holiday park locations often sit

on constrained electrical supplies that weren't designed with EV charging in mind. Understanding DNO

connection capacity and realistic upgrade costs early — before guest expectations force a rushed

decision — gives operators far more control over both timeline and budget.

The parks thinking furthest ahead are treating EV charging infrastructure the same way they'd treat a

new water or drainage system: essential, long-life infrastructure that's expensive to retrofit and cheap

to plan properly the first time. That mindset shift, more than any specific chargepoint choice, is what

separates a future-proofed site from one perpetually one step behind guest expectations.

Future-Proofing Holiday Parks With EV Charging Infrastructure