A total of 79 projects across England will share in a £45m pot of Land Release Fund money, designed to pay for infrastructure that makes house-building projects viable.
The 79 schemes are all on council-owned land and collectively plan to deliver 7,280 new-build homes. They were chosen from 143 bids received.
The Land Release Fund, which comes out of the overarching £5bn Housing Infrastructure Fund, is administered through a partnership of the Local Government Association and Cabinet Office’s One Public Estate (OPE) programme.
Projects being allocated support in this round include:
A development in Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, is getting £1.7m to build new roads, roundabouts, and utility services, which will unlock up to 330 homes potentially built with Japanese modular housing techniques.
A project in Worcester is getting £750,000 to demolish a leisure centre and undergo asbestos decontamination works near its city centre, helping to unlock up to 50 homes.
A scheme in Paignton, Devon, is getting £1.9m to support construction of a 350-metre sewer, drainage upgrades and two new roads. This will help unlock up to 200 homes.
The full list of schemes awarded land release
Local Authority |
Project |
LRF Funding (£) |
Breckland |
Shipdham |
£300,000 |
Bexley |
West Street |
£142,093 |
Bexley |
Walnut tree depot |
£250,753 |
Bexley |
Bridge Street Road |
£117,018 |
Bexley |
Nags Head Lane - Bexley |
£91,943 |
Blackburn with Darwen |
Blackburn with Darwen - Newfield Dev Area |
£32,000 |
Blackburn with Darwen |
Blackburn with Darwen - Fishmoor Drive |
£35,000 |
Blackburn with Darwen |
Blackburn with Darwen - Griffin |
£670,000 |
Blackpool |
Blackpool - Bispham Road |
£1,050,000 |
Blackpool |
Blackpool Rd - Poulton |
£1,700,000 |
Blackpool |
Blackpool - Ryscar Way |
£400,000 |
Brighton & Hove |
Kensington Street |
£144,000 |
Brighton & Hove |
Victoria Road |
£340,000 |
Brighton & Hove |
Selsfield Drive |
£335,000 |
Bristol |
Haldon Close Bristol, BS3 5LW |
£220,000 |
Bristol |
2-20 Filwood Broadway, Bristol |
£390,000 |
Bristol |
Kingswear, Knowle West. |
£250,000 |
Bristol |
Bath Rd, Totterdown |
£270,000 |
Bristol |
Whitehouse Centre, Fulford Rd |
£2,680,000 |
Broadland |
Rosebery Road, Great Plumstead |
£160,000 |
Broxtowe |
Residential Development Eastwood |
£1,000,000 |
Chelmsford |
St Peters (Chelmsford) |
£925,000 |
Chelmsford |
Moulsham (Chelsmford) |
£125,757 |
Craven |
Phase 1 Small Housing Sites |
£662,125 |
Durham |
Former Stanley School of Technology Housing Development |
£1,250,000 |
Durham |
Self Build Housing Development |
£810,000 |
East Hampshire |
Mill Chase Academy |
£1,200,000 |
Haringey |
Pinkham Way |
£1,500,000 |
Hartlepool |
Seaton Lane Sites |
£205,000 |
Herefordshire |
Bromyard Depot |
£225,000 |
Lambeth |
Fenwick South |
£825,000 |
Luton |
Taylor Street |
£855,545 |
Maidstone |
Brunswick St / Union St |
£658,000 |
Maldon |
Friary (Maldon) |
£255,735 |
Mendip |
Easthill, Frome |
£420,000 |
Mendip |
Cemetery lane, Street |
£210,000 |
Mendip |
Norbins Road, Glastonbury |
£84,000 |
Mendip |
North Parade, Frome |
£112,000 |
Newcastle on Tyne |
NCC Package of sites (Losh Terrace, Manor Park, Wansford Avenue, Newburn Road) |
£525,000 |
North Devon |
Seven Brethren, Barnstaple |
£2,200,000 |
Norwich |
Mile Cross depot enabling works |
£980,000 |
Plymouth |
Colin Campbell House/Colin Campbell Court |
£1,000,000 |
Plymouth |
Bath Street West |
£1,500,000 |
Plymouth |
Stirling House, Honicknowle |
£250,000 |
Plymouth |
Corporate Asset Release Programme |
£407,500 |
Plymouth |
Land at Prince Maurice Road, Lipson Allotments |
£525,000 |
Plymouth |
Efford Health and Wellbeing Hub |
£250,000 |
Rochford |
Rocheway/Millview (Rochford) |
£422,110 |
Rochford |
Freight House and RDC Offices (Rochford) |
£204,125 |
Rotherham |
Project One: Housing Delivery - Rothwell Grange & Copewell Lodge |
£300,000 |
Rotherham |
Project Two: Place Based Transformation |
£150,000 |
Rushcliffe |
Depot- Housing Development - West Bridgford |
£300,000 |
Salford |
Salford Development Site, Astley Road |
£500,000 |
Salford |
Swinton Transformation, Salford |
£110,000 |
Salford |
Little Hulton Residential Development, Longshaw Drive, Salford |
£90,000 |
Scarborough |
Depot Rationalisation, Scarborough |
£50,000 |
Shropshire |
Ellesmere Remediation |
£544,507 |
South Gloucestershire |
Emersons Green Lane, Bristol |
£150,000 |
South Gloucestershire |
Station Road, Yate |
£230,000 |
South Gloucestershire |
Land at Savages Wood Road, Bradley Stoke |
£200,000 |
South Gloucestershire |
Land at Woodlands, Tytherington |
£100,000 |
South Gloucestershire |
32 Gloucester Road/Castle 6th form, Thornbury |
£720,000 |
South Gloucestershire |
Charborough Road, Filton |
£500,000 |
South Gloucestershire |
Woodend Road, Frampton Cotterell |
£175,000 |
South Gloucestershire |
Lower Stone Close, Frampton Cotterell |
£20,000 |
South Gloucestershire |
Eastbury Close, Thornbury |
£30,000 |
South Ribble |
South Ribble - Bamber Bridge and Lockstock Hall |
£362,000 |
St Edmundsbury |
St Olaves Road, Bury St Edmunds |
£670,000 |
Stevenage |
Kenilworth Close / Burwell Road and Gresley Way |
£900,000 |
Swindon |
John Street Car Park redevelopment |
£400,000 |
Teignbridge |
Newton Abbot, Bradley Lane |
£2,500,000 |
Torbay |
Victoria Square, Paignton |
£900,000 |
Torbay |
Preston Down Road, Paignton |
£1,100,000 |
Torbay |
Collaton St Mary, Paignton |
£1,976,000 |
Wiltshire |
Land Assembley Next Phase |
£700,000 |
Worcester |
Sansome Walk |
£750,000 |
Worcester |
The Pines |
£180,000 |
Wychavon |
Kingsfield |
£150,000 |
Wycombe |
Bassetsbury Allotments |
£500,000 |
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