Levelling Up Fund Round 2: application form and guidance
To support applicants with completing the application form and submitting a bid for Round 2 LUF funding. Please note: applications to this funding round are now closed.
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Please note: applications to this funding round are now closed.
The Levelling Up Fund is designed to invest in infrastructure that improves everyday life across the UK. The £4.8 billion fund will support town centre and high street regeneration, local transport projects, and cultural and heritage assets.
Across, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (NI), unitary authorities (including metropolitan borough councils), London borough councils and district councils in two tier areas in England are eligible to submit bids for the second round of the Levelling Up Fund which was announced at Spring Statement 2022.
In addition to local authorities, the UK government will accept bids from a range of local applicants in NI, including but not limited to businesses, universities, voluntary and community sector organisations, district councils, the Northern Ireland Executive, and other public sector bodies.
Before applying, applicants should also familiarise themselves with the prospectus and the technical note. The Fund will run until 2024/25.
This application can only be completed by one user. Please prepare your answers in advance, including any supporting documents, and allow enough time to submit them. You can find a list of the supporting documents we will ask you for in the prospectus.
If you experience technical difficulties with this form, please email LUF2IT@levellingup.gov.uk. If you need help with anything else, please contact LUFTeam@levellingup.gov.uk
Last updated 2 August 2022 + show all updates
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Amended to reflect that the application portal has closed (midday on 2 August). Any bids or supporting documentation submitted after the deadline will not be assessed and will not be eligible to be considered for funding.
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Workbooks updated with the following amendments: - In the package bid workbook, the years of the discounting factor have been corrected - The discounting of the costs in the cost calc worksheet are corrected
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Costings and planning workbooks amended with the following changes: - Optional inputs for resource costs have been included in the economic costs worksheet. - Amended BCR calculation in A4.2 - Some corrections to the formulae, previously there was an issue where the benefits inputted in the first year of the appraisal period were double-counted. - Capital costs and resource costs (and benefits) can now be included from the first year of the appraisal period rather than from 2022/23 onwards, this is to allow for bids that have used an appraisal toolkit such as the AMAT which already converts costs and benefits into present value costs/benefits to be inputted in the first-year of the appraisal period (so no further discounting occurs). - Standard discount rates and health discount rates have been included in the worksheet. Applicants can now discount benefits at different discount rates depending on the type of benefit.
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Added link to online application form. The costings and planning workbooks have been updated. These versions of the workbooks should be used be places moving forwards and any information on older version of the workbook should be transposed across.
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