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The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has secured a further £33 million of government funding to accelerate its brownfield regeneration programme, creating new homes, jobs and communities.
The WMCA has received the new funding from the Brownfield Housing Fund (BHF). It is the second tranche of money it has secured through the initiative.
Altogether £84 million in BHF funding has been earmarked by government for the WMCA over a three-year period, with the aim of unlocking 7,500 new homes across the region.
The funding will help the WMCA in achieving its ambitious target of building the 215,000 new homes the West Midlands will need by 2031
The £33m will be focused on site clearance and remediation of 'difficult to deliver' brownfield sites to secure the delivery of high-quality new homes and jobs.
The WMCA's brownfield regeneration programme has helped unlock the region’s most challenging sites, some of which had remained vacant and stalled for decades. The first tranche of £33 million funding received in May 2021 is already helping to kick-start homes across the region including at Culwell Street in Wolverhampton.
This next tranche will support a diverse range of housing and regeneration projects – from the restoration and conversion of unique heritage buildings into new homes in town centres to mixed use developments around key transport hubs and major brownfield housing projects.
Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands and chair of the WMCA, said: "This fresh injection of £33 million from the Brownfield Housing Fund is a huge vote of confidence in the West Midlands and our ability to deliver on our promises.
"Developing homes and creating new communities on brownfield land has been one of the region's real success stories of recent years, and we will now be able to keep up our momentum thanks to this latest funding.
"By using government cash to clean-up derelict industrial land we’ve helped create thousands of new homes and jobs, whilst also protecting our precious and irreplaceable greenbelt."
