Government launches a £54 million package to transform local communities.
Announcement published 1st August 2017 on GOV.UK website headlines ‘Funding boost for local authorities to transform local communities.’
The government has launched a £54 million package to transform local communities and release land for thousands of new homes.
The package comes as part of a new cross-government partnership to make smarter use of government-owned property.
DCLG’s £45 million ‘Land Release Fund’, launched in partnership with the Cabinet Office and Local Government Association’s One Public Estate programme, will ensure local councils release some of their unused or surplus land for housing. This will help to meet the ambition to unlock enough council-owned land for at least 160,000 homes by 2020.
Councils can now bid for funding for land remediation and small-scale infrastructure, which will help bring sites forward for housing that would not have otherwise been developed.
Alongside this, One Public Estate is making £9 million funding available to support more councils to deliver ambitious property-focused programmes.
Read the announcement in full click here.
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