Strategic priorities and eligibility
Strategic context Projects should align with:
- the Place Based Investment Programme
- the Place Principle
- Regeneration Strategy
- Town Centre Action Plan and Town Centre First Principle
- Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan
- Climate Change Plan
- Climate Action Towns
- National Planning Framework 4
- Scotland’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation
- Community Wealth Building
- Securing Positive Effects for Biodiversity
- Public Health Scotland’s strategic plan
- Fair Work and Pay
- local authority development and regeneration plans
Eligible projects At stage one, your project must:
- meet the programme aims
- be ready to spend or commit funding by March 2025
- involve the community in its design
- help achieve net-zero targets
Multi-year projects
- complex projects that take longer to deliver are accepted
Ineligible projects and costs The fund does not support:
- future running costs
- housing as a primary focus (ancillary outcomes may be supported)
- major transport infrastructure
- moveable infrastructure like furniture and fittings
- hotel or retail-only developments without regeneration outcomes
- standalone public realm improvements, roads or paths (unless part of wider regeneration)
- flood protection or upgrades
Important
- grant drawdown must follow the approved profile
- funding cannot be carried into future financial years
- project end dates can go beyond March 2025, but future funding sources must be clear