{"id":8470,"date":"2014-09-10T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8470"},"modified":"2014-09-09T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:55:19","slug":"new-guidance-for-contaminated-land-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8470","title":{"rendered":"New guidance for contaminated land grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">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<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Members may be interested to learn of the new prioritisation scheme, where a four tier priority programme has been developed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Priority 1 urgent remediation<\/li>\n<li>Priority 2 \u2013 Completion of ongoing remedial treatment schemes<\/li>\n<li>Priority 3 \u2013 Starting remedial treatment schemes on existing projects<\/li>\n<li>Priority 4 \u2013 Completion of other ongoing schemes by exception<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Section 3.2.1. of the guidance states that \u2018The Government\u2019s aim.. is to move away from discrete grants which can only be used for a specified purpose, instead allowing authority&#8217;s flexibility to use their funding efficiently and achieve the best possible value in delivering outcomes\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/350575\/LIT_8067.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the guidance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/contaminated-land-capital-projects-funding\" target=\"_blank\">View additional application forms and information\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=grants+and+funding\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on grants and funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8488,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions\/8488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}