One Public Estate: Brownfield Land Release Fund (BLRF2) Round 4 – December 2025

The Brownfield Land Release Fund 2 (BLRF2) will provide up to £19.8m in capital funding to enable councils to release council-owned sites on brownfield land for housing development.

The regeneration and renewal of council-owned brownfield land enabled by the fund will contribute to the UK Government’s mission for growth by contributing to the 1.5m new homes target over the course of this parliament. 

This fund enables councils to take a brownfield-first approach to development by unlocking otherwise unviable brownfield land for new homes, whilst supporting regeneration, economic growth and place making. 

BLRF2 Round 4 (BLRF2.4) is an additional round of the BLRF2 programme: funded and supported by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG); and delivered by One Public Estate (OPE). 

The BLRF2.4 fund varies from other earlier BLRF rounds as it will no longer use fixed bidding windows, and will instead allocate funding to projects following a collaborative, continuous market engagement process. 

OPE is a partnership between the Office of Government Property (OGP) in the Cabinet Office (CO), the Local Government Association (LGA) and MHCLG. Our aim is to bring public sector bodies together in place in order to create better places; to use public assets more efficiently; to create service and financial efficiencies; and to release land for development to create new homes and jobs for communities. 

Since 2017, OPE has partnered with MHCLG to deliver the Brownfield Land Release Fund (BLRF) and its predecessor the Land Release Fund (LRF). To date, land has been released for over 11,000 homes.