Purpose

In December 2019, the County
Council published its
Electric Vehicle (EV) Strategy outlining its ambitions for
supporting electric vehicle adoption across the county.
Subsequently, the County Council, Arun District Council, Adur and
Worthing Councils, Crawley Borough Council, Horsham District
Council and Mid Sussex District Council
appointed a chargepoint operator (Connected Kerb) to install
and operate EV chargepoints on a 100% concession basis.
 
In December 2022, the Cabinet
Member for Highways and Transport
approved the addition of £1.804m capital On-Street
Residential Chargepoint Scheme grant funding to the capital
programme for the purpose of installing EV chargepoints in West
Sussex.
 
Further funding has now been
secured, over £5million, from the On-Street Residential
Chargepoint Scheme of the Office of Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)
and Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) to deliver up to
1000 chargepoints across West Sussex and an additional 400 passive
chargepoints that can be activated when demand increases. The grant
contributes up to 60% of the installation costs, with the remaining
40% of installation costs being funded by Connected Kerb. The
chargepoints will be installed on-street (subject to the Traffic
Regulation Order process) and within district/borough council car
parks.

Decision

The Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport
has –

 

(1)    
approved the addition of £4.961m capital grant funding from
OZEV to the capital programme for the purpose of installing
Electric Vehicle chargepoints in West Sussex; and

 

(2)    
noted the £0.625m revenue funding from OZEV to support the
costs of dedicated resources for the rollout of EV chargepoints in
West Sussex.