We work for landowners, not operators
Car park, yard or empty plot. Answer a short set of questions and get a viability assessment, a read on the charging already around you, and your network operator's details. Then open the bay to the market and let operators bid against each other for it.
The survey
Estimates are fine. Where you don't know something, say so — an honest unknown is more useful than a guess, and we'll flag it as something to resolve before you go to market.
The outward part is enough — EH12 or CF10 1AA both work.
Enter a UK postcode, or switch to picking a network area.
Grouped by network operator area rather than county.
Choose an area so we can point you at the right network operator.
Chargepoint data from Open Charge Map, the open registry fed by operators' mandatory open data. Coverage is good but not perfect — treat it as a strong indication, not a survey.
We'll fill this in automatically from the postcode where we can. Adjust it if you know better — you can check on Open Charge Map.
This sets the baseline demand assumption an operator will use.
Enter the approximate number of bays on site.
Bays you'd accept losing to EV-only use.
Enter how many bays you'd release.
A rapid charging bay with circulation space needs about 40 square metres. Six bays is roughly a tennis court.
Enter roughly how many bays the land could take.
Assessment
Indicative only. Bay positions, unit siting and cable routes need a physical survey.
What to resolve
Each of these changes what a deal looks like. Work through the red and amber items before you publish — they are much harder to fix afterwards.
Three routes
Every bid you receive will be a version of one of these. The differences are who funds the kit, who owns it, and who takes the risk that it doesn't get used.
An operator pays for everything and runs the site. You grant rights over the bays and take a share of what the chargers earn.
Indicative: 5–12% of net charging revenue, sometimes with a small minimum guarantee per bay.
You lease the bays to an operator for a fixed rent. They keep the charging revenue and carry the utilisation risk entirely.
Indicative: £500–£2,000 per AC bay per year, £2,000–£6,000 per rapid bay, index linked.
You fund the installation and appoint an operator to run the back office and maintenance for a fee. You keep the revenue.
Indicative capex: £2k–£8k per AC socket, £25k–£60k per rapid, plus connection works.
Figures are broad UK market ranges for orientation, not quotes. What you actually get turns on traffic, connection cost and how many operators you run in competition with each other.
What operators do with sites like yours
Charge point operators price by scheme size, not by how much they like your site. These are the three bands most sites fall into, and what a landowner typically ends up with in each.
Composite examples drawn from typical UK schemes, anonymised. Deal terms vary widely between operators on identical sites — which is the whole reason to run a competition.
The contract
Every bid on our portal has to answer these. Heads of terms look short and friendly; this is where the value actually sits.
Leaving an incumbent
Why use a broker
An operator's development manager has negotiated a hundred of these agreements. You are negotiating your first. That asymmetry is the product they're selling, and it is the whole reason we exist.
Sites approached by a single operator take that operator's terms. We put the same brief to a panel and make them compete. The spread on identical sites is routinely wide enough to pay for itself many times over.
Operators bid against a fixed schedule of terms — share, floor, term, exclusivity scope, uptime, rates, reinstatement. No more comparing three PDFs that answer three different questions.
Legacy contracts, unclear asset ownership and grant clawback conditions are where most site owners get stuck. Untangling that before you go to market is what makes your site sellable.
Capacity applications, budget estimates, reinforcement costs and connection queues. We know how to frame the application so the answer that comes back is useful rather than a flat refusal.
The gap between what's agreed in a meeting and what appears in the draft agreement is where value quietly disappears. We read the redlines and we keep a list.
Some sites shouldn't have chargers on them yet. We'd rather tell you that on a consult than take you through six months of process to arrive at the same place.
The survey, the consult and publishing a listing are free to you. There is no fee to a landowner at any stage, and no charge if you decide not to proceed or take a bid off-platform.
We're paid a success fee by the operator whose bid you accept. That is the honest tension in this model, and you should know about it: a broker paid on completion has some incentive for a deal to happen. Two things hold that in check — we publish the fee we charge operators, and it is the same percentage from every operator on the panel, so we have nothing to gain from steering you towards one bidder over another.
If a consult concludes your site isn't ready, we'll tell you what would need to change and you owe us nothing. That happens often enough that it's worth saying plainly.
Next step
Both are free. If your site is straightforward, publishing directly is quicker. If there's an incumbent to untangle or the assessment threw up blockers, a consult first will save you time.
Tell us when suits and what you'd most like to get out of it. We'll come back within one working day with a time.
We need a name to put in the diary.
Enter an email address we can reply to.
Optional, but it makes the call more useful. The survey results come through automatically.
Your reference is —
This is exactly what operators will see. Your name, address and contact details are not included — they stay private until you choose to release them to a bidder.
Withheld until you release it: exact address, your name, contact details, and anything you write in the notes field below.
We need a name for the listing record.
Enter an email address so we can send you the bids.
Your reference is —
A human reads every listing before it goes live. If something looks wrong or thin, we come back to you rather than publishing it.
Panel members matching your region and scheme size get alerted. They can register interest or pass.
Each bid answers the same schedule of terms. You see them as they arrive, side by side.
We talk the bids through with you. Accept one, negotiate, or walk away — all three are fine and none of them cost you anything.
Illustrative example. Every operator answers the same questions, so the comparison is genuinely like for like — which is where most of the value in running a process actually comes from.
| Term | Operator A | Operator B | Operator C |
|---|---|---|---|
| Structure | Concession | Concession | Land lease |
| Headline | 8% of net | 11% of net | £3,200 per bay p.a. |
| Minimum guarantee | £500 per bay p.a. | None | n/a — fixed rent |
| Term | 15 years | 25 years | 20 years, RPI-linked |
| Exclusivity | Bays in use only | Whole site | Bays plus first refusal |
| Connection overrun | Operator bears | Shared above £40k | Operator bears |
| Uptime commitment | 98%, credits apply | Reasonable endeavours | 97%, credits apply |
| Business rates | Operator | Landowner | Operator |
| Reinstatement | Full, at operator cost | Units removed only | Full, at operator cost |
Operator B has the biggest headline number and by some distance the worst deal. That gap is the reason this exists.
Your brief
No obligation to use us at all. Below is your site written up the way an operator's development team reads it. Send the same brief to three of them and ask each to price against it.
Compare the answers side by side rather than reading each proposal on its own terms.
Get all of it in writing at heads of terms stage. Anything agreed verbally and left out of the document did not happen.