Councils get £295m boost for food waste collections
26/03/2024 Local authorities in England will share up to £295m in funding to help them introduce weekly food waste collections, Recycling Minister Robbie Moore has announced. |
£150k charging investment to support Hull’s EV transition
08/12/2023 Hull City Council has announced that it will invest £150,000 in new electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. |
£8bn of HS2 savings to be spent on ending pothole ‘blight’
17/11/2023 Transport secretary Mark Harper has confirmed the allocations of an £8.3bn plan to resurface England’s pothole-marked road system, set out in the wake of HS2 cuts. |
Councils welcome waste reform flexibility but await details on costs
23/10/2023 Councils were relieved not to lose all local discretion in the Government’s waste collection reforms but have said questions remain, including over funding. |
Orkney requests help replacing £800m ferry fleet
22/08/2023 The leader of Orkney Islands Council has called on the Government to help fund the replacement of Orkney's ferry fleet, which could cost up to £800m. |
Multi-million-pound grant delivers over 117 electric buses
02/03/2023 A £25m Government grant has supported the production of 117 new British-made zero emission electric buses. |
Charge point roll out gets £56m cash injection
21/02/2023 Sixteen local authorities are set to benefit from a £56m injection of cash aimed at driving forward the roll out of thousands of new electric vehicle (EV) charge points. |
Sheffield drivers offered support ahead of CAZ rollout
12/12/2022 People can apply for financial support to help them upgrade their vehicle ahead of the introduction of Sheffield’s Clean Air Zone (CAZ), the city council has said. |
West Sussex Chargepoint Network secures £1.8m funding boost
16/11/2022 West Sussex County Council has welcomed government funding of up to £1.8m to help fund 450 on-street chargepoints and 100 in public car parks. |
Local roads at 'great risk' of becoming dangerous
08/11/2022 The AA has warned that England’s local road network ‘cannot take another round of cuts’ after official figures showed that a third of English councils' B and C roads were rated in amber or red condition in the last year. |
Nine councils set to benefit from £20m EV charge point pilot
24/08/2022 A multi-million-pound electric vehicle (EV) charge point pilot looks set to deliver an estimated 1,000 new chargers across the country. |
Holyrood launches £500,000 scheme to boost zero-carbon bus sector
10/08/2022 The Scottish government has launched a £500,000 scheme aimed at helping local authorities and smaller operators work towards a zero-carbon bus sector. |
Government needs ‘cohesive strategy’ to help councils with EV roll-out
03/08/2022 Only 14% of local authorities in the UK have a dedicated resource for implementing a new electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure, EV charging experts warn. |
Scotland's bus sector gets a £26m lifeline
23/06/2022 The Scottish Government has confirmed an additional £25.7m to extend recovery funding for the country’s bus sector but the current support scheme will end in October. |
Plug-in grant comes to an end
14/06/2022 The Government is today closing the plug-in grant for cars and says the focus will now be on expanding the public charge point network. |
Charge point operator warns of £1.5bn shortfall in EV funding
08/06/2022 A public charge point operator has warned of a more than £1.5bn shortfall in Government electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure funding and called on the private sector to step in. |
DfT spent 15 times more on private than public EV chargers
12/05/2022 An analysis of Department for Transport (DfT) figures has revealed that public money spent on installing off-street residential electric vehicle (EV) chargers is over 15 times what has been spent on public on-street residential chargers. |
Transport minister announces £200m for zero emission road freight programme
12/05/2022 Transport minister Trudy Harrison today revealed over £200m of Government funding will be injected into a zero emission road freight demonstrator programme. |
Councils ‘shafted’ over £1bn bus funding allocations
05/04/2022 The Government has announced a raft of local transport cash allocations but the news was overshadowed by angry local reactions, notably from South Yorkshire Mayor Dan Jarvis who exclaimed: 'We have been shafted'. |
Shapps launches £10m pilot EV charging fund
01/04/2022 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has written to local authority chief executives to launch a pilot £10m bidding scheme to boost local EV infrastructure. |
Greater Manchester secures £35.8m to enhance green bus fleet
30/03/2022 In a major boost to Greater Manchester’s net zero ambitions the combined authority has secured £35.8m in funding to introduce 170 green buses to the region. |
Council chiefs welcome £1.6bn EV charge point strategy
25/03/2022 Local authorities have welcomed a new Government strategy designed to boost the roll-out of 300,000 electric vehicle charge points by 2030. |
Bucks Council awarded nearly £600,000 to upcycle RCV
21/03/2022 Buckinghamshire Council has been awarded more than half a million pounds to upcycle its first refuse collection vehicle to electric. |
South Cambridgeshire DC allocates over £1m for new eRCVs
10/02/2022 South Cambridgeshire District Council has allocated £1.3m to its shared waste services with the purpose of purchasing equipment, such as new electric bin lorries, that can help reduce carbon emissions. |
Government urged to invest £15m in EV skills training
19/08/2021 Representatives the automotive sector has called on the Government to invest £15m to support EV skills training. |
Shapps announces £15m congestion and pothole scheme
13/08/2021 Transport Secretary Grant Shapps today announced a multimillion-pound scheme to improve traffic signals and explore the use of drones to help fix local roads. |
Green Lithium secures over £600,000 for UK’s first large-scale lithium refinery
22/04/2021 The mineral processing company Green Lithium has secured a £631,000 grant from the Advanced Propulsion Centre's (APC) Automotive Transformation Fund Feasibility Studies (ATF FS2) to support its plan to build Europe's first large-scale lithium refinery in the UK. |
Government announces £54m to create next generation electric trucks
22/03/2021 The Government has announced that £54m of funding will be made available to create the next generation of electric trucks and hydrogen-powered buses. |
Councils urged to bid for extended electric vehicle chargepoints funding
02/02/2021 Local authorities are being urged to apply for a share of £20m funding to help increase the number of on-street electric vehicle chargepoints. |
Scottish councils ‘outstrip’ English counterparts when it comes to EV funding
05/11/2020 Local authorities in Scotland and Wales are receiving much more funding per capita to spend on electric vehicle charging than councils in England, a new report has revealed. |
Highways England to invest £9m in EV ‘try before you buy’ scheme
09/09/2020 Highways England has announced that it is investing over £9m in a local government electric vehicle (EV) ‘try before you buy’ scheme as part of World EV day. |
Plans outlined for Britain’s first all-electric bus town
06/02/2020 One local authority is set to receive £50m to become Britain’s first all-electric bus town. |
