Mobility Credits

Mobility Credits aim to provide a range of alternative transport options to residents, helping to make new developments more sustainable. They act as an incentive, encouraging people to travel by public transport, walking and cycling and to reduce their car use – thereby reducing congestion, improving air quality and helping to tackle climate change.

Why is this important?

Mobility Credits are one part of a wider Council strategy to change the way people travel to, from and around Coventry.

The Coventry Transport Strategy, which was approved in 2022, sets out these plans in more detail. As well as introducing incentives, like Mobility Credits, to encourage residents to change their travel habits, these plans also include making major improvements to the city’s public transport network and creating a more suitable environment for walking and cycling. The changes are important because current levels of car travel – currently the dominant mode of travel in the city – will not be sustainable in the future.

The Strategy therefore aims to reduce this and to prioritise more sustainable modes of transport. This change is intended to help address a number of challenges including, for example:

• tackling climate change
• improving the health of local people, by reducing air pollution associated with congestion and encouraging higher levels of ‘active travel’
• preventing road traffic accidents
• supporting the city’s economy, and
• meeting the additional travel demand from new homes, in a way that does not lead to increased congestion and air pollution.

Who pays for Mobility Credits?

Mobility Credits are provided at no cost to the households receiving them.

They are funded by developers, as a condition of their planning permission. For this reason, only residents moving into new built homes in specific parts of the city are eligible to receive them.

While the value of the credits will vary between developments, it is generally likely to be between £400 and £1,200 per household.