Decision details

The Chief Officer, Climate, Energy and Green Spaces:

a) Approved the receipt of funding from the Office for Low Emission Vehicles and subsequent injection of £127,500 capital grant funding into the Clean Air Zone Early Measures Capital Scheme 32980/ECP.

b) Authorised the expenditure of the £127,500 ORCS external grant funding to cover the work streams itemised above.

c) Authorised expenditure of up to £51,500 from the Clean Air Zone Early Measures budget to cover capital costs. There is an existing ring-fenced budget for public charge point delivery within this scheme.

d) Noted the additional investment of £94,163.09 that will be provided by the charge point operator. This funding will be the operator’s contribution to the overall costs of the scheme and will not be received by the authority. This provides a total expenditure of £273,163.09 for the scheme, of which £51,500 is from the capital budget secured by Climate, Energy & Green Spaces from external funding.


e) Approved the direct award of this work directly to Blink Charging UK Ltd in line with the reasoning in 3.3 and 3.4 through the approved KCS framework contract.