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Government announces shortlist of projects to benefit from £1bn scheme
Eric Pickles today announced the 36 projects that will benefit from a £1bn scheme to unlock 200,000 new homes.
Ebbsfleet is one of the projects set to benefit from the funding
The secretary of state for communities said the £850m allocated today is ‘part of a wider package of housing programmes to support home ownership, increase investment in the private rented sector and further increase house building.’
The £850m of loans for shortlisted projects forms part of the government’s £1bn, five-year large sites infrastructure programme, and will be used to build the infrastructure needed to provide schemes of at least 1,500 homes.
The DCLG said the 36 projects will go through ‘a final rigorous due diligence process’ before receiving the funding.
Sites include the continued development of the Greenwich Peninsula in south east London, which will help provide nearly 10,000 new homes, while funding is also expected to go to Ebbsfleet Eastern Quarry, to help provide 3,500 homes.
As well as the £1bn loan funding, the large sites infrastructure programme also includes £12.5m capacity funding and expert planning and technical support for councils dealing with large-scale sites, as well as brokerage support from central government to unblock obstacles to development.
The full list of sites is below:
| Applicant | Bid Name |
| A2Dominion Developments Ltd | NW Bicester |
| Acton Gardens LLP | Acton Gardens |
| Ainscough Strategic Land Ltd | Barwell SUE |
| Alledge Brook LLP | East Kettering LSIP May 14 |
| BDW Trading Ltd | Dallington Grange |
| BDW Trading Ltd | Overstone Leys |
| Bela Partnership Ltd | Bela Priors Hall - Zones 2&3 Infrastructure |
| Bovis Homes | Alphington, Southwest Exeter |
| Buckland Development Limited | Welborne |
| Canary Wharf Group PLC | Wood Wharf |
| Countryside Zest (Beaulieu Park) LLP | Beaulieu, Chelmsford |
| Crest Nicholson Operations | Arborfield Garrison, Wokingham, RG2 9LN |
| Crest Nicholson Operations | Cheesemans Green, Ashford, Kent, TN25 7FT |
| Crest Nicholson Operations | Hunts Grove, Marconi Drive, Gloucester, GL2 2AP |
| Crest Nicholson Operations | Bath Riverside, Bath, BA2 3FL |
| Halsbury Homes Ltd | Whitfield Dover |
| Houghton Regis Development Consortium | HRN1 |
| Inox Property Limited | Langarth Truro |
| K2 Regeneration LLP | Middle Deepdale |
| Knight Dragon Investments LTD | Greenwich Peninsula Infrastructure & Energy Centre |
| Land Securities Eastern Quarry Ltd | Ebbsfleet Valley Quarry Modelling |
| Langtree Land and Property plc | Festival Gardens Site, Liverpool |
| Lucent Group | Lincolnshire Lakes (Scunthorpe) |
| Mersea Homes | Colchester North Growth Area Urban Extension |
| Nortthants LLP | North Wellingborough |
| Nurton Developments (Quintus) Limited | Branston Locks |
| Persimmon Homes (Essex) | Bishops Stortford North |
| Persimmon Homes Limited | Weston Airfield |
| Persimmon Homes West Midlands Ltd | Lawley Village Telford Phases 5 & 7-11 |
| Persimmon PLC- Persimmon Homes (Wessex) | West Witney Oxfordshire |
| Pigeon (Thetford) Ltd | Thetford North |
| Redrow Homes Limited | Monkton Heathfield |
| Rugby Radio Station (General Partner) Limited | Rugby Radio Station (RRS) |
| The Pratt Group | Newcourt Urban Extension Exeter |
| The Trustees of ERB Drummond Deceased | New Lubbesthorpe |
| Waystone Limited | DN7 Initiative Doncaster |
