One Public Estate: Brownfield Land Release Fund (BLRF2) Round 4 – how to apply

To discuss a project’s suitability for funding, interested councils are strongly encouraged to contact the One Public Estate (OPE) team at [email protected].

Applications for funding will be accepted until available funding has been exhausted, at which point the fund will close.

OPE partnerships are therefore no longer required to coordinate applications on behalf of their partnership, as in previous rounds of BLRF funding. Instead, councils will submit applications directly to OPE.

An Investment Case and a Technical Annex must be submitted for each project seeking funding, along with supporting evidence.

Before applying, applicants should read the Fund Details, Technical Annex and accompanying guidance, FAQs, Investment Case and other supporting documents.

All councils awarded funding will be required to sign a Grant Funding Agreement (GFA). A draft version is available to download below.

Round Four is now open.

The BLRF2.4 fund varies from other earlier BLRF rounds as it will no longer use fixed bidding windows, and will instead allocate funding to projects following a collaborative, continuous market engagement process.

Funding criteria

The assessment process will follow two stages, as detailed below:

1. Eligibility criteria
2. Gateway criteria

Further guidance on the above can be found in the fund details, FAQs and below in the downloadable documents.

Downloadable documents

• Investment case template
• Technical annex
• Value for Money guidance
• Draft Grant Funding Agreement (GFA)

Timeline