Local Sustainable Transport Fund

The Fund aims to facilitate best practice in the delivery of a wide range of sustainable transport packages.

The purpose of the Fund is to enable the delivery of sustainable transport solutions that support economic growth while reducing carbon. These solutions should be geared to supporting jobs through effectively tackling congestion, improving journey times, enabling economic investment, revitalising town centres and enhancing access to employment.

The Fund provides the opportunity to take an integrated approach to meeting local challenges and to delivering additional wider social, environmental, health and safety benefits for local communities. It will be for local transport authorities, working in partnership with their communities, to identify the right solutions to meet the challenges faced in their areas.

Applications can cover geographical areas that cut across local authority boundaries in which case one transport authority should be identified as the lead authority with others as partners.

The Guidance states that those applications which have the support of community interests and incorporate partnership working will be treated positively in the assessment process. The funding can support both revenue and capital costs.