Eligible applicants

• Freehold owners of eligible properties or sites.
• Leaseholders with at least three years remaining after the completion deadline and written landlord consent.
• Commercial businesses, landlords, social enterprises, charities and community organisations with a legal interest.

Applicants must demonstrate

• A clear project need and reason for grant support.
• The ability to deliver within the grant period.
• Available match funding.
• Measurable economic, regeneration, placemaking or community benefits.
• Legal, regulatory and subsidy-control compliance.

Potentially eligible activity

• Structural repairs, building fabric, roofs, windows, doors, façades and shopfronts.
• Internal refurbishment, fit-out and upper-floor reuse.
• Heritage restoration and conservation-led work.
• Accessibility and energy-efficiency improvements.
• Work bringing vacant or underused buildings and strategic sites into productive use.

Normally not eligible

• Residential work or the residential part of mixed-use projects.
• Routine or cyclical maintenance and minor repairs.
• Moveable furniture, equipment or stock.
• Standalone professional fees.
• Projects outside the eligible area or without clear regeneration or placemaking benefit.