News: Rotherham Council to spend over a million pounds on upgrades to one town centre car park
Rotherham Council has confirmed the contract details for a multimillion pound capital project at a car park in Rotherham town centre.
Backed by a government grant, the scheme will see a solar canopy and electric vehicle (EV) charging station installed at Drummond Street Car Park.
The 240-space pay-and-display surface car park is well used by commuters and shoppers and is close to the new £40m markets and library development and the town's major taxi rank.
Rothbiz first reported in 2023 that Rotherham Council was looking to hook up with a private sector firm who could install and run the station.
A concessionary contract was devised that would enable the specialist company to build the instrastructure and operate the charging station for 15 years.
New documents from the council show that Wenea Services UK Ltd has been awarded the contract.
Wenea is an EV service provider based in Spain and works with a number of local authorities across the UK. So far, the Wenea roll out features a mix of fast and rapid charging solutions and the chargers are supported by the Wenea App, which has over 100,000 users across Europe and offers a fully-integrated charging experience to both B2B and B2C customers.
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Tender documents showed that the contract could be worth up to £6m. The fixed budget for the design & build of the Solar PV canopy is £1,050,000 excluding VAT and the private sector firm are expected to make a minimum contribution for EV infrastructure of £330,000 excluding VAT.
The contract holder would then run the concession with council figures estimating that revenue for the proposed 15 year period would be £4.158m excluding VAT.
Rotherham Council is utilising £1.2m of funding from the government's Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Grant scheme.
Since March 2022, £381m in LEVI funding has been issued to help local authorities to accelerate public EV infrastructure development, leverage significant private investment and deliver over 100,000 new public chargepoints.
A council decision on the scheme states: "The implementation of the Solar Canopy and EV Charging will enable reducing carbon emissions emitted and supporting a local transition to electric vehicles through the provision of destination and residential charging in the town centre."
Wenea website
Images: Wenea
Backed by a government grant, the scheme will see a solar canopy and electric vehicle (EV) charging station installed at Drummond Street Car Park.
The 240-space pay-and-display surface car park is well used by commuters and shoppers and is close to the new £40m markets and library development and the town's major taxi rank.
Rothbiz first reported in 2023 that Rotherham Council was looking to hook up with a private sector firm who could install and run the station.
A concessionary contract was devised that would enable the specialist company to build the instrastructure and operate the charging station for 15 years.
New documents from the council show that Wenea Services UK Ltd has been awarded the contract.
Wenea is an EV service provider based in Spain and works with a number of local authorities across the UK. So far, the Wenea roll out features a mix of fast and rapid charging solutions and the chargers are supported by the Wenea App, which has over 100,000 users across Europe and offers a fully-integrated charging experience to both B2B and B2C customers.
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Tender documents showed that the contract could be worth up to £6m. The fixed budget for the design & build of the Solar PV canopy is £1,050,000 excluding VAT and the private sector firm are expected to make a minimum contribution for EV infrastructure of £330,000 excluding VAT.
The contract holder would then run the concession with council figures estimating that revenue for the proposed 15 year period would be £4.158m excluding VAT.
Rotherham Council is utilising £1.2m of funding from the government's Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Grant scheme.
Since March 2022, £381m in LEVI funding has been issued to help local authorities to accelerate public EV infrastructure development, leverage significant private investment and deliver over 100,000 new public chargepoints.
A council decision on the scheme states: "The implementation of the Solar Canopy and EV Charging will enable reducing carbon emissions emitted and supporting a local transition to electric vehicles through the provision of destination and residential charging in the town centre."
Wenea website
Images: Wenea
11 comments:
Wasting money as usual. Why not put site up for development, flats, and have a multi storey car park as part of development,won't lose any parking spaces, but will gain extra revenue from council tax from flats?
I hope that doesn’t end the free weekend parking.
I'd like to think for Disabled drivers that pay for parking or require tickets, the ramps will be in place, unlike Northampton who have made it impossible for Disabled people to access the ticket machine.
Could of used that money on more cycle lanes 🤣
This is being funded by a government grant for EV infrastructure so how is this the council wasting money?
He automatically thinks that every council programme is a waste of money because he makes the same inane comment without reading or understanding the post.
Makes little difference if its council funding or central government...neither actually have any money, its tax payers money or borrowed, either way, its tax payers(if your not on benifits that is) that pay for everything, and I'll say again, it's a waste of money as usual, but hey what do you expect with these clowns in power , waste money when we can't even defend our homeland.
Carry on voting Labour... Clown.
"wasting money as usual" but then suggest redevelopment, when half of the town is already up for redevelopment, don't tell me it needs to be ten storeys high and have glass in its name
How much do you think a MSCP will cost? google AI suggests it would be around £3-6million, now that would be a waste of money when offering free car parking at weekends, and mid-week charges of up to £3.60 per day.
Carry on clowning and a pity you don't have a Fascist party to vote for.Oh, wait a minute, there's always Restore Britain.
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