Seven combined authorities across England set to benefit
The government has announced an additional £234m in grant funding to regional mayors in an effort to unlock 8,000 new homes on brownfield land.
The money will be provided through the Brownfield Housing Fund, which was launched in 2022 and has seen successive additional rounds of funding since then.
Areas set to benefit from the money include Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, the East Midlands, Greater Lincolnshire, Hull & East Yorkshire, Tees Valley, the West of England and York & North Yorkshire.
The funding was revealed as part of the government’s announcement naming seven locations for its new town programme.
In its own separate statement, the West of England combined authority said it would receive a £45m share of the £234m funding boost, its first allocation from the Brownfield Housing Fund.
Mayor Helen Godwin said the funding would prove “enormously important as we work together to step up efforts to tackle the housing crisis by building the right homes in the right places, with the right services and infrastructure for people to live well and get around.”
The combined authority is currently working with local councils in the region to create a spatial development strategy. A £4m investment in housing plans is expected to be approved at a meeting between the mayor and council leaders this Friday (27 March).
The announcement came as the government confirmed the names of seven locations it is proposing to back with support and funding for new towns.
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