Housing Infrastructure Fund
Information about the Housing Infrastructure Fund - now closed for bids.
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Over £4 billion has been allocated from the Housing Infrastructure Fund to local authorities for infrastructure to unlock housing. It will help to unlock up to 324,000 new homes by helping to fund much needed infrastructure in areas of greatest housing demand.
It will help to ensure that more homes means better, not more stretched, local infrastructure and community facilities. The grant funding, allocated to local authorities on a competitive basis, is being provided in the period from 2018-19 to 2023-24, to fund physical infrastructure such as roads, community facilities and utilities.
The Fund is divided into 2 streams:
- Marginal Viability Funding: available to all single and lower tier local authorities in England – to provide the final or missing piece of infrastructure funding to get additional sites allocated or existing sites unblocked quickly
- Forward Funding: available to the uppermost tier of local authorities in England – for a small number of strategic and high-impact infrastructure projects.
Marginal Viability Funding projects in contract
The table at the top of the page shows Marginal Viability Funding projects in contract.
Forward Funding projects
Local authority | Project | HIF funding (£million) |
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Buckinghamshire | Aylesbury Garden Town Growth Enabling Infrastructure Programme | £172.3m |
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | Northern Fringe East | £227m |
Central Bedfordshire | Transformational Growth in Biggleswade | £69.6m |
Cheshire East | North Cheshire Garden Village | £21.7m |
Cornwall | Truro Growth Area - Northern Access Road | £47.5m |
Cornwall | Hayle Junctions Infrastructure Project | £12.9m |
Cumbria | Carlisle Southern Link Road | £134m |
Devon | South West Exeter | £55.1m |
Essex | Beaulieu Station and North East Bypass | £218m |
Essex | Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community | £99.9m |
GLA | Docklands Light Railway - growth capacity | £280.7m |
GLA | Meridian Water Infrastructure | £170m |
GLA | East London line - growth capacity | £80.8m |
Gloucestershire | M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme | £249.1m |
Greater Manchester Combined Authority | Manchester Northern Gateway Urban Growth Programme | £51.6m |
Kent | Swale Transport Infrastructure | £38.1m |
Medway | New Routes to Good Growth | £170m |
Milton Keynes | Milton Keynes East Sustainable Urban Extension | £94.6m |
North East Combined Authority | South Sunderland Growth Area Cluster | £25.4m |
North Somerset | West of England: Enabling Infrastructure for M5-A38 Strategic Development Locations | £97m |
Oxfordshire | Access to Didcot Garden Town | £218m |
Oxfordshire | A40 Smart Corridor | £102m |
Surrey | A320 North of Woking | £41.8m |
Surrey | Slyfield Area Regeneration Project | £52.3m |
Swindon | New Eastern Villages, Southern Connector Road | £18.9m |
Updates to this page
Published 4 July 2017Last updated 21 April 2021 + show all updates
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Added Forward Fund impact evaluation scoping report, and Forward Fund process evaluation scoping report.
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Added accessible version of 'Marginal Viability Funding projects in contract'
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Added update list of Marginal Viability Funding projects in contract.
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Updated list of successful Forward Fund projects.
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Updated list of successful Forward Fund projects.
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Added GLA (Meridian Water Infrastructure and East London Line), Central Bedfordshire (Transformational Growth in Biggleswade) and Essex (Beaulieu Station and Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community) to successful Forward Fund projects.
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Added amended list of Marginal Viability Funding projects approved following funding clarification.
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Added Cornwall and Surrey to successful Forward Fund projects.
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Added Cheshire East, GLA, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and Oxfordshire to successful Forward Fund projects.
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Added list of Marginal Viability Funding projects approved following funding clarification.
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Added Cumbria and Devon to successful Forward Fund projects.
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Added information on successful Forward Fund projects.
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Added list of successful Forward Fund projects to go through to co-development.
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Added list of all successful Marginal Viability Fund projects.
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Added new guidance document - Ranking process guidance.
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Added link to online bidding forms and guidance on how to use them.
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Added regional email contacts.
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First published.