Apply for a cross-pavement charging grant for electric vehicles

If you have an electric vehicle but do not have off-street parking, you could get a grant of up to £3,500 to safely charge your vehicle without trailing cables across the pavement.

The grant can fund solutions such as charging gullies (cable channels in the pavement) and pop-up chargers. These would connect to your home charge point, which you must already have or be in the process of getting.

This grant is a pilot funded by the Scottish Government. Because the grant is a pilot, it may or may not be available in the future.

This grant contributes to Renfrewshire’s Plan for Net Zero by lowering transport carbon emissions.

You can apply for the grant if you:

• live in Renfrewshire
• have an electric vehicle
• have access to a home charge point (an electric vehicle charger) but do not have off-street parking.

The grant is funded by the Scottish Government and delivered by the Energy Saving Trust.

You should read about the grant on the Energy Saving Trust website before you apply. This is where you can find all the details about the grant.

1. Once you’ve read about the grant on the Energy Saving Trust website, you should get a quote from an installer to use as evidence of how much the work will cost.

2. Before applying for the grant, you must apply for a road opening permit through the council. This permit gives you our permission to do the work.

   You can apply for the permit yourself, but many people ask the installer who will be doing the work to include the cost of the permit in their quote.

   If your grant application is successful, then part of the grant will go to you or the installer (whoever paid for the permit) to cover the cost of the permit. If your grant application is not successful, then you will not be able to get a refund for the permit cost.

   Apply for a road opening permit

3. Once you have a quote and a permit, then you can apply for the grant.

   Apply for the cross-pavement charging grant (Energy Saving Trust website)

The grant is delivered by the Energy Saving Trust, not Renfrewshire Council.

The Energy Saving Trust will usually let you know the outcome of your application within 8 working days.

Email the Energy Saving Trust at crosspavementgrant@est.org.uk if you have any questions about the grant.