Nearly 80 housing projects win kick-start funding

The Government has awarded £45m to councils to kick-start the building of thousands of new homes from Plymouth to Newcastle.

The cash will help 41 councils unlock housing sites, funding essential works to allow housing to be built.

Housing and Planning Minister Dominic Raab said: “We are investing £45m to build roads and provide utilities, so councils can release the land to get up to 7,280 new homes built.

It’s part of our strategy to build the homes Britain needs, and carry local communities with us.”

The successful bids will release land for homes by March 2020.

The cash forms part of the government’s strategy of planning reform and targeted investment to build 300,000 homes a year.

Projects from Newcastle to Plymouth will receive funding from the Land Release Fund, which will enable:

• Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, to build new roads, roundabouts, and utility services, which will unlock up to 330 homes potentially built with Japanese modular housing techniques. The works will cost £1.7 million.
• Worcester to demolish a leisure centre and undergo asbestos decontamination works near its city centre, helping to unlock up to 50 homes. The project will cost £750,000.
• Paignton, Devon, to build a new 350m sewer, drainage upgrades and 2 new roads, which will help unlock up to 200 homes. The works will cost £1.9 million.
• Brighton, Sussex, to divert a public sewer and make electricity substation and highways improvements. The £335,000 project will help unlock up to 30 homes.

The Land Release Fund competitively assessed bids from local authorities on value for money, innovation, and the contribution to wider government housing objectives.

A total of 79 bids were successful in the assessment process, which will see £45 million being awarded to 41 authorities.

The fund was oversubscribed with more than £100m received in funding requests for 143 projects.

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

from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2018/02/16/nearly-80-housing-projects-win-kick-start-funding/

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