FOI request (FOIR-747746138)

EV charging infrastructure funding and expenditure

Requested Tue 09 September 2025
Responded Thu 16 October 2025

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following EV-related information from Hastings Borough Council. Please may you provide me with:

1. Funding received:

For each financial year since 2019/20, the total amount of funding your authority has received through EV infrastructure or charging schemes (if applicable), such as:

• On-Street Residential Charge-point Scheme (ORCS)

• Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund (Capital and/or Capability funding)

• Any other government or devolved nation funding scheme specifically for EV charging/infrastructure

If providing all years would exceed the appropriate cost limit, please provide figures from as many of the most recent financial years as possible, starting with the most recent financial year. If time allows, please ensure to break this down by the amount received per scheme.

2. Expenditure:

For each financial year since 2019/20, how much from each source of funding has been spent by your authority, and on what (for example, charge-points installed, staff, planning, and so on).

If providing full detail would exceed the cost limit, please provide figures from as many of the most recent financial years as possible, starting with the most recent financial year, and the number of charge-points installed as a result per year.

3. Current/planned allocations:

• Your authority’s budget allocation (if any) for EV charging infrastructure in the current financial year.

• Whether your authority has been rejected by any EV charging infrastructure schemes/grants in the current financial year.

Whether your authority has applied for, has plans to apply for, and/or has been allocated funding under the recently announced Electric Vehicle (EV) Pavement Channels Grant (2025–26).

4. Strategy:

Whether your authority has a published EV infrastructure strategy or plan, and if so, please provide a link or copy.

Please provide any financial information in tabular form (Excel or CSV preferred, though a table in your response is also fine) to ensure clarity and consistency.

If it is not possible to provide the full information requested within the cost limits of Section 12, please prioritise, in order:

• Total funding received by scheme and year.

• Total expenditure of that funding by year.

• Whether your authority has applied for, or plans to apply for, the recently announced EV Pavement Channels Grant.

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Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

1. Funding 2019/2020 - £15,000 Accelerated Towns Fund - No other government funding, we are not the highway authority so ORCs for example are not applicable to us.

2. 2019/2020 - Spent on EV infrastructure, EV chargers, alongside our own capital spend.

3. £40,000 of our own funds, no schemes or grants applied for.

4. Hastings Borough Council only has a climate strategy:

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/my-council/policies-strategies/climate-change-strategy/