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The local government support programme (LGSP) helps local authorities decarbonise transport, improve air quality and increase electric vehicle adoption.
Our support is fully funded by the Department for Transport and is free of charge to all local authorities in England.
If you’re not sure where to begin with your climate and sustainability strategy, local transport plan or electric vehicle (EV) chargepoint strategy, we’re here to help. We can also connect you with other local authorities to share experience and ideas.
What support is available for local authorities?
Find out more about the range of support we have available.
Electric vehicle infrastructure (EVI) strategy workshops: bespoke sessions on electric vehicles and chargepoints, including how to make the most of LEVI funding and meet public charging needs.
Chargepoint strategy review: impartial advice on your proposed strategy.
Go electric events: public sector staff engagement sessions, helping to understand all about EVs, EV charge points, and much more.
Chargepoint site section support: map-based data analysis of potential electric vehicle chargepoint locations based on selected criteria; and how to source this data.
Chargepoint network utilisation assessment: data analysis of existing electric vehicle chargepoint usage.
EV chargepoint and accessibility workshops: guidance on how to make EV chargepoint and sites accessible and how to get CPOs on board.
Skills training: learn how to do technical analysis for yourself with our training.
Pre-procurement workshops: bespoke sessions to help you identify the approach and delivery model that works best for your projects.
Soft-market testing: questions to ask when meeting charge point operators (CPOs) and impartial feedback post-meetings.
Chargepoint procurement workshops: bespoke sessions on how to develop an approach to procurement and your procurement specification of requirements.
Chargepoint Operator (CPO) procurement support: support with soft market testing and reviewing your Specification of Requirements and Invitation To Tender (ITT) before publishing your tender.
Procurement specification accessibility review: impartial advice on your proposed specification, including the PAS1899 accessibility standard.
Signposting: we’ll introduce you to expert contacts for specialist advice to align procurement proposals with essential LEVI principles
CPO proposal support: impartial advice on how to evaluate how CPOs intend to work.
Go electric events: public sector staff engagement sessions, helping to understand all about EVs.
EV mythbusting: Get facts to respond to myths and misinformation about EVs, including range anxiety, running costs, charging reliability, battery life, fire risks, lifecycle emissions, and more.
Behaviour change strategy: support to help you develop a plan to get people making more sustainable travel choices.
Sustainable travel review: evaluation of your staff travel plan.
Staff travel plan template: help to create a plan from scratch.
Quarterly local authority forums: exclusively for local authority officers, get the latest news, updates, and best practice on public EVI and sustainable travel.
Local authority decarbonisation transport group: get access to an online staff-only forum with 450+ members. Ask questions, debate comment, and give feedback.
Non-EVI staff support: EVI awareness-raising for non-EVI colleagues, such as those in procurement, legal, highways, parking, enforcement, planning, customer services, transport planning, street lighting and others.
An Introduction to EVs & EV Charging: invite colleagues, councillors, portfolio holders, leaders or mayors to workshops introducing the future of EVs.
Event delivery support: practical help with events.
Community engagement: support with effectively engaging local communities with sustainable travel as well as convening and facilitating your local stakeholders.
Peer reviewing
Our support is confidential, impartial, independent, expert and free for local authority officers.
You may have completed a major work package, might be planning to start the next major phase of work or might be unsure how to resolve a particular situation. We can:
Review whatever you would like us to look at, eg strategy, action plans, implementation, documents, data, analyses, communications, etc.
Evaluate the quality of your current arrangements
Assess your readiness for developing your organisation and managing change
Identify strengths and areas for improvement
Evaluate your prospects for future improvement
Local authority transport decarbonisation toolkit
We’ve worked with the Department for Transport to produce the local authority transport decarbonisation toolkit. The toolkit provides guidance and key actions that local authorities can take when planning and delivering measures to reduce carbon emissions from transport.
Guide to electric vehicle charging infrastructure
The Department for Transport (DfT) have worked with the Institution for Engineering and Technology (IET) to publish a guide to electric vehicle charging infrastructure for local authorities. This guide is designed to be accessible to all those who are involved in EV infrastructure planning and deployment.
The local electric vehicle infrastructure (LEVI) fund is for Local authorities, partnerships or consortiums led by a local authority within England. The LEVI support body (Energy Saving Trust, PA Consulting and Cenex) administer this scheme on behalf of the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles.
Guides, webinars and useful information
Our best practice guides are useful reference resources for officers developing charging infrastructure networks, providing impartial advice and informative case studies.
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Next steps
We’ll be in touch to discuss your needs, priorities and timescales.
We’ll begin delivering your tailored support.
We may invite you to share experience with other local authorities.
We provide support through our dedicated regional account managers who can offer help, expertise and technical guidance. We’re a friendly, flexible team and will work with you to tailor our support.
Since 2018, we’ve helped over 250 local authorities progress their electric vehicle and sustainable travel and transport projects.
Our support is always free, expert and impartial.
96% of local authorities we work with are highly satisfied or satisfied with our support (2023/24 Evaluation Report).
We host a Microsoft Teams channel (LA Decarbonising Transport) for over 600 EV Officers; they share updates, pose questions, ask for input from other councils, share data, and more.
We’re talking with hundreds of councils of every type and size.
