Kerbside charging points are already becoming common in many cities, although a lot more are going to be needed. Look to cities like Oslo or Amsterdam for examples of best practice here.

Some boroughs of London are quite well covered, with charging points every 1-2 blocks or so (Westminster), where as other parts are pretty useless (Camden). Because the charge point spots are reserved for EVs only, and can only be used while charging, you can usually find an available one pretty easily.

There's talk of designing charge points that can easily be attached to existing street light poles, so in terms of infrastructure the cost to implement charging points on every street should not be unreasonable, once the demand is there.

I see Teslas and BMW i3's parked on the street near me regularly in London with no obvious access to a nearby charging point, so it's certainly possible to use an EV this way at the moment - if not entirely as convenient as having your own charge point. If you're only driving around the city then you probably don't actually need to charge all that often (maybe once a week or so), and for long-distance trips you can stop at a fast charger or supercharger.

"attached to existing street light poles"

Now that's a sensible idea.

I have seen a couple of Teslas in Edinburgh - but they look like people commuting into the city. Not seen an electric car parked anywhere that looked like the owner lived there.

Our car usage doesn't really fit with current electric cars usage - but I'd love to try if we had a suitable home and a need to commute by car (both my wife and I walk to work at the moment).

Edit: Another option would be to buy a garage - but at £60K to £80K that would rather defeat the purpose of buying an electric car to save money!

In London I had a neighbor with an electric car. It was parked on the street and plugged in using a long cord to its owner's building. Seemed to work ok, though it wasn't pretty. Plenty of street crime and vandals around, somehow they didn't seem to bother.

That approach could work, but we're on the 2nd floor and with parking spaces being tight we usually don't get to park immediately outside the front door.

I'm assuming that the council will install charging stands at some point - if these had dedicated parking (and no residents parking charge!) then that would encourage people to use them.

Some properties in the street have coal holes in the road - that might an interesting place to install charging paraphernalia.

And illegal in many jurisdictions (I know with certainty that in Italy it is forbidden to put a power cord on the sidewalk without a permit from the city, and the cord must be covered by a rigid walkway)