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Evidence that your estate has been reviewed, considered and rectified.

Future funding awards, contract renewals and audits are assessed against the evidence trail behind your existing chargepoints, not the press release that opened them. This tool walks each site survey through every live framework, records why each requirement passes, fails or doesn't apply, and turns the result into funder-ready documents.

Built for council officers running their own reviews, and for contractors surveying on a council's behalf with a sign-off loop back to the authority.

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Funding follows evidence

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An estate that cannot show this trail counts against the authority in a funding assessment: assessors treat the gap as a due-diligence finding. The review builds the trail while the survey is being done.

What an unreviewed estate costs

These liabilities exist whether or not anyone has looked. A review does not create them; it finds them while they are still cheap to fix, and builds the record that defends the authority.

£10,000

per chargepoint · PCPR penalties

The maximum civil penalty per non-compliant chargepoint under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023, fully in force since Nov 2025. Enforcement is complaint-led: the first notice arrives unbudgeted.

Clawback

grant conditions outlive the rollout

ORCS and LEVI money is conditional. A condition nobody can evidence is a due-diligence finding at the next assessment: it stalls the award and puts the money already drawn in question.

Uncapped

Equality Act claims

Discrimination claims carry no upper limit, and the first question is the authority's s.149 due-regard record. Most estates predate PAS 1899 (Oct 2022) and hold no such record until a review builds one.

Call-out rates

reactive fixes, one at a time

Defects found by complainants are fixed visit by visit at emergency rates. Found in survey, the same works price as one programmed package, with a cost and an owner against every item.

Why evidence it here, not in a spreadsheet: every check carries its exact citation · evidence rules are enforced as you survey (notes on shortfalls, photos on fails, recorded reasons on N/A) · contractor submissions return through officer sign-off · all four funder documents compile from the same record. The survey and the defence are one job, not two.

Worked example Averton City Council

A fictional city-scale network, modelled on real rollouts of the period: 260 lamppost chargepoints added in 2023 took the estate to 410, with 1,800 more committed by 2028. The rollout was ORCS funded (a 60% government grant with 40% from the operator) on 5 kW lamppost units paid by QR code. An estate built at that pace, across several funding rounds, now has to evidence itself against rules that arrived mid-rollout: PAS 1899 (Oct 2022) and the Public Charge Point Regulations (Nov 2023–25).

Averton is a fictional council; the estate profile is modelled on published UK rollouts of the period. All survey findings in this demo are illustrative; they are not audit results.

Council officer

Run reviews in-house or assign sites to a contractor · sign off submitted surveys · generate the grant-readiness report, Equality Act record, funder evidence pack and public summary.

Contractor

Survey assigned sites with guided walkthroughs · capture notes, photos and measurements per check · submit for council sign-off · quote remediation works from failed checks in the planner.

The check library

56 checks across payment, electrical, accessibility, highways and funding. Each carries a plain-English explainer, exact citation and rectification guidance. Drafted for line-by-line specialist sign-off.

Open the reviewable guide →

Averton City Council

Worked example · illustrative data

Compliance clock

Exposure while open fails stand

computed from this estate record · illustrative, not a legal assessment

Every fail behind these numbers already carries rectification guidance and a typical cost in this record. The programmed fix, evidenced here, is the cheap version of this list; the grant-readiness report in Outputs takes it to members.

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Evidence rules: what each outcome requires

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Recorded as not applicable to this site type

Every requirement in the library is accounted for. A recorded reason is what shows it was considered, not missed.

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Survey summary

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Findings to verify

Approve

Signing accepts the survey as evidence. Open actions and fails transfer to the rectification programme; they do not block sign-off.

Return to contractor

Outputs

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Estate position

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Key findings

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Rectification programme

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Reviewed · considered · rectified. Every requirement in the library v0.9 has been surveyed, recorded as met, programmed for rectification, or recorded as not applicable with a reason. This is the evidence trail funders assess future awards against.

Under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010, the council must have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and advance equality of opportunity for disabled people in the exercise of its functions, including the operation of its existing public charging estate. This record documents the consideration given, the findings, and the mitigations adopted.

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Per-condition evidence against each funding programme in the estate. Attachments (photos, certificates, notes) are held per check and export with this pack.

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How our charging network is doing, and what we are fixing

We inspected our chargepoints against the national rules on payment, safety and accessibility. Here's what we found, in plain terms.

What we're fixing

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Spot a problem at a chargepoint? Call the free 24/7 helpline shown on the unit, or report it to the council and we will take it up with the operator.

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Contractor handover

Council documents (grant-readiness report, Equality Act record, funder pack, public summary) are generated by the authority after sign-off. Your survey and evidence transfer automatically on submission.

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Quote the remediation works

Failed checks carry rectification guidance and typical costs. Take them into the planner's Quotes tool to price the works for the council.

Open Quotes in the planner →