A charger in your owners' association: how to get it done

In an apartment building your parking spot is rarely an island. The cable runs through communal spaces, the power often comes from the building's central connection and the wall carrying the charger is usually communal property. That is why the owners' association formally has a say: what happens to communal parts is decided by the meeting.

Which route you must follow exactly is set out in the deed of division and your VvE's regulations. Roughly there are two flavours: VvE's under the 2017 model regulations and VvE's with older regulations.

If your VvE falls under the 2017 model regulations, there is good news: those regulations already contain a notification arrangement for charging points on a private parking spot. You do not need to ask the meeting for approval; you notify the board in advance with a work plan. Conditions apply: installation by a certified installer, at your own cost and risk, with separate metering, and without leaving other residents short of power.

Many owners (and boards) do not know this route exists. So first check which regulations your deed of division refers to before starting a long meeting process.

Under older regulations, approval by the general meeting is the standard route. That does not have to take years if you prepare well. What works in practice: come to the meeting with a complete proposal instead of an open question. That means a quote from a certified installer, a drawing of the cable route, separate metering so you only pay your own consumption, and agreements on maintenance, insurance and removal when you leave.

Also think one step beyond your own spot. For the VvE a collective plan is often more attractive: lay the infrastructure properly once (with load balancing on the central connection) so others can join later, instead of ten separate wall openings and cables. A proposal that includes that perspective wins a majority more easily.

The Dutch government is working on a law that levels this for all VvE's: the notification scheme for charging points at VvE's. The core: a notification to the board with a work plan replaces the meeting's approval, provided the charging point meets the legal conditions. At the time of writing this is still a bill; the intended start sits around the turn of 2026 into 2027 and the exact conditions will follow in an implementing decree.

Until then your own VvE's regulations simply apply. Waiting for the law is rarely necessary: with a good proposal or the notification route of the 2017 model regulations you can get there today.

We supply the documents a VvE board asks for: a quote with the cable route, a safe connection with separate metering and load balancing so the central connection is never overloaded. In Amsterdam and the surrounding area this is daily work: a large share of charger requests there runs through a VvE. Do you live in an apartment with your own parking spot? Put your situation to us or first see the charger page. If the building has solar panels, charging on solar power is interesting for a VvE too.