Sustainable transport funding

Portsmouth City Council has been successful in obtaining funding towards a number of transport schemes and initiatives, you can see all of the bid documents below.

We submitted an expression of interest for the Zero Emission Bus Regional Area Scheme fund in 2021 and the documents that support this are below.

We submitted a bid to the Transforming Cities Fund in July 2020. You can read more about our bid on our Transforming Cities Fund page. You can also find out more about the schemes that deliver against this funding at South East Hampshire Rapid Transit.

We were successful in obtaining a grant of £61,000 towards the A27 Safer Roads Fund (2018). These bid documents can be seen below.

Bus Services Operators' Grant (BSOG)

Local authority bus subsidy ring-fenced (revenue) grant determination 2020/21

The BSOG grant paid to Portsmouth City Council under this determination may be used only for the purposes of supporting bus services (including community transport services run under a section 19 permit), or for the provision of infrastructure supporting such services in that authority’s, or a neighbouring authority’s, area.

Portsmouth City Council has used the grant in full to maintain current tendered services which consist of:

Services 16 (Sundays only), 22 (7 days a week) 6 & 12 (Monday to Saturday) 13 & 14 (Sunday only).