Additional guidance and new application forms have been released this week by the Environment Agency and DEFRA on the contaminated land capital projects (CLCP) programme.
Members may be interested to learn of the new prioritisation scheme, where a four tier priority programme has been developed:
- Priority 1 urgent remediation
- Priority 2 – Completion of ongoing remedial treatment schemes
- Priority 3 – Starting remedial treatment schemes on existing projects
- Priority 4 – Completion of other ongoing schemes by exception
Section 3.2.1. of the guidance states that ‘The Government’s aim.. is to move away from discrete grants which can only be used for a specified purpose, instead allowing authority’s flexibility to use their funding efficiently and achieve the best possible value in delivering outcomes’
