Government releases further £60m for brownfield regeneration

Ministers have released a further £60m for 100 brownfield regeneration projects across England.

The second phase of the £180m Brownfield Land Release Fund will unlock sites as part of the government’s long-term plan for housing, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said.

Under the plans, more than 6,000 homes will be built on brownfield sites, including industrial sites and former car parks, through money given directly to councils to transform unused land into new neighbourhoods.

Housing and planning minister Rachel Maclean said: “We know we need to build more homes, but this cannot come at the expense of concreting over our precious countryside. That is why we are doing all we can to make sure we are making use of wasteland and unused brownfield land, so we can turn these eyesores into beautiful and thriving communities.”

The funds will be handed out by One Public Estate, a partnership between the levelling up department, the Office of Government Property and the Local Government Association.

East Suffolk gets the most funding, with £4.2m allocated. Medway in Kent gets just under £4m, while Oldham receives £3.1m.

Other funding allocations include £1.82m for a 146-home scheme in Benwell and Scotswood in Newcastle, nearly £1m to transform a derelict school in Hull and £1.8m to regenerate a former riverside industrial site in Sunderland.

Shaun Davies, chair of the Local Government Association, said: “Councils have continued to embrace opportunities to bring brownfield sites in their ownership forward for housing, and this fund plays a key role in helping councils to provide the types of homes their communities really need.”

The allocation follows the first round of the fund, which provided around £40m for almost 2,400 homes.

To date, the fund has supported 89 local authorities with more than £100m, for more than 160 projects to release land for almost 8,600 homes.

A further round of funding will be announced later this year.

Council	Funding
Adur	£268,485
Arun District Council	£628,322
Basildon Borough Council	£1,860,357
Bath & North East Somerset Council	£204,375
Breckland Council	£425,000
Brighton & Hove	£526,400
Bristol City Council	£124,482
Buckinghamshire Council	£690,000
Burnley Borough Council	£416,312
Bury	£1,731,015
Cornwall Council	£485,040
Darlington Borough Council	£262,450
Derby City Council	£570, 686
Devon County Council	£386,000
Dover District Council	£480,000
East Suffolk District Council	£4,203,800
Folkestone & Hythe District Council	£2,500,000
Gloucester City Council	£477,903
Halton Borough Council	£291,000
Isle of Wight Council	£426,639
Kingston upon Hull City Council	£980,000
Kirklees Council	£210,100
Lancaster City Council	£1,439,016
Leicester City Council	£713,435
London Borough of Barnet	£575,000
London Borough of Bromley	£720,000
London Borough of Lewisham	£545,778
London Borough of Merton	£130,000
London Borough of Newham	£2,391,974
Maidstone Borough Council	£2,109,860
Medway Council	£3,968,371
Mid Devon District Council	£660,000
Mole Valley District Council	£560,000
New Forest District Council	£324,303
Newcastle upon Tyne City Council	£1,819,123
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council	£3,151,226
Oxford City Council	£340,213
Plymouth	£353,250
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council	£425,951
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council	£431,746
Rushmoor Borough Council	£1,725,636
Salford City Council	£3,000,000
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council	£1,371,193
Sheffield City Council	£753, 944
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council	£1,050,000
Somerset Council	£213,800
Southampton City Council	£1,084,000
Stevenage Borough Council	£599,705
Sunderland City Council	£3,134,543
Swale Borough Council	£943,499
Thanet District Council	£685,275
Torbay	£950,000
Trafford Council	£1,930,000
Warwick District Council	£1,007,440
Warwickshire County Council	£200,000
Waverley Borough Council	£115,000
West Northamptonshire	£750,000
Wigan Council	£1,042,464
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council	£2,325,000
Wyre Forest District Council	£725,000