Guidance

Plan for Neighbourhoods: Regeneration Plan submission questions

Published 9 June 2025

This page includes all the questions you will be asked in the Regeneration Plan submission form.

Place and secondary contact information

• Which place are you submitting on behalf of?
• Who is the secondary contact for your place?

Community engagement and support

• Tell us how you have engaged with your local community and key stakeholders to develop your Regeneration Plan.
• Is your place in a Mayoral Combined Authority?
  • [If ‘Yes’] Have you consulted with the relevant Mayoral Combined Authority on the content of your Regeneration Plan? If not, you must tell us why.
• Has the MP for your place been consulted during development of this plan and reviewed it prior to submission?
  • [If ‘Yes’] Tell us the name and constituency for the MP.
  • [If ‘No’] Tell us why you have not consulted your MP during development of this plan and why they have not reviewed it prior to submission.
• Does the constituency of another MP make up more than 25% of your agreed place geography?
  • [If ‘Yes’] Has the MP for the constituency making up more than 25% reviewed the plan prior to submission?
  • [If ‘Yes’ to above]: Tell us the name and constituency for the MPs who have reviewed the plan. [If ‘No’ to above]: Tell us why the MP for the constituency making up more than 25% of agreed place geography has not reviewed the plan.
• Does the constituency of another MP make up between 10% to 25% of your agreed place geography?
  • [If ‘Yes’] Has the MP been consulted on any parts of your plan that impact on areas within their constituency?
  • [If ‘Yes’ to above]: Tell us the name and constituency for the MPs you have consulted, and details about what was consulted. [If ‘No’ to above]: Tell us why you have not consulted the MP making up between 10% to 25% of agreed place geography.

Your Regeneration Plan

10-year vision

• Upload your 10-year vision.
• Would you like to upload any supporting documents?
  • [If ‘Yes’] Upload any supporting documents and provide a brief description of their purpose.

4-year investment plan: key priorities

For each of the 3 strategic objectives of the programme (thriving places, stronger communities and taking back control), we will ask you to:

• Tell us about the local challenges you have identified as priorities to address in the first investment period and why. Tell us about any local opportunities for improvement or investment that you have identified and wish to pursue in the first investment period.

4-year investment plan: interventions

• Which categories of pre-approved interventions do you plan to fund? You will have the option to select from the following:
  • Cohesion
  • Education and opportunity
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Housing
  • Regeneration, high streets and heritage
  • Safety and security
  • Transport
  • Work, productivity and skills
  • Not sure which pre-approved interventions we plan to fund at this stage

Depending on what was selected, you will then be asked to select the interventions you plan to fund relating to the categories chosen. An option will be provided if you do not know which pre-approved interventions you plan to fund yet.

You will then be asked:

• Does your Neighbourhood Board wish to deliver off-menu interventions?
• [If ‘Yes’] You must describe the proposed intervention and include:
  • a brief description
  • estimated cost
  • why the proposed intervention cannot be delivered through those set out in the pre-approved intervention list
  • how the proposed intervention will support delivery of one or more of the strategic objectives for the Plan for Neighbourhoods programme
  • how the proposed intervention will be value for money and the outcomes and outputs that you aim to deliver through the investment
  • how you have consulted with relevant bodies, where relevant, when developing this proposal and the outcome of these discussions

Payment profile and spend

Payment profile and spend forecast

In this section, we will ask you to provide data for every year throughout the duration of the programme. This includes indicative spend forecast for:

• capacity funding (across 12 financial years from 2024 to 2036)
• programme delivery funding - capital and revenue (across 10 financial years from 2026 to 2036)
• any pre-approved interventions (across 4 years in the first investment period - 2026 to 2030), for all categories:
  • cohesion
  • education and opportunity
  • health and wellbeing
  • housing
  • regeneration, high streets and heritage
  • safety and security
  • transport
  • work, productivity and skills
• any off-menu interventions (across 4 years in the first investment period - 2026 to 2030)
• any management costs (across 4 years in the first investment period - 2026 to 2030)
• unknown uses of funding (across 4 years in the first investment period - 2026 to 2030)

We will also ask about how you have developed your indicative spend forecast for capacity and programme delivery funding and why it is important for spend to occur in these years.

Projects

• Can you provide details of any projects you have identified for funding?
• [If ‘Yes’] Describe your project, including information about:
  • project name
  • brief description of project (maximum 10 words)
  • primary intervention
  • project status
  • name of delivery organisation
  • type of organisation
  • amount of funding allocated from the Plan for Neighbourhoods programme
  • other sources of project funding
  • total project budget (sum of the funding allocated from the Plan for Neighbourhoods programme and other funding sources)

Capacity funding

• Tell us how you have used capacity funding since you submitted your Neighbourhood Board and place boundary form.

Management costs

• Do you plan to use any programme delivery funding to cover management costs in the first investment period?
  • [If ‘Yes’] Tell us how the funding will be used to cover management costs.
  • Have you received approval from your Neighbourhood Board to use revenue funding for management costs, and approval on how much funding will be used? If no, you must tell us why.

Milestones

• Which milestones are relevant for your place? You will have the option to select from the following:
  • Consulting the community
  • Running a feasibility study
  • Call for projects and project selection round
  • Commissioning services
  • Project procurement

You will be able to add multiple milestones under each of the above categories.

Depending on the options selected, you will be asked to summarise the activities for those milestones, and provide estimated start and completion dates.

You will then have the opportunity to add any bespoke milestones if relevant, where we will ask you for a brief description, summary and estimated start and completion dates.

Management of funds

• Tell us how your Neighbourhood Board will identify and select specific projects for investment across the first investment period.
• Tell us how the accountable body, or any other parties, will carry out fund oversight functions in the first investment period.
• Have you considered environmental impacts when designing your investment plan?
  • [If ‘No’] Tell us why you have not considered environmental impacts when designing your investment plan.
• Has the accountable body made appropriate arrangements to consider their environmental duty when implementing the investment plan?
  • [If ‘No’] Tell us when arrangements will be put in place.
• Has the accountable body made appropriate arrangements to ensure that any funds awarded through the programme are done in compliance with the appropriate public contract regulations?
  • [If ‘No’] Tell us when arrangements will be put in place.
• Do you have a programme risk register with appropriate arrangements in place to manage risks identified?
  • [If ‘No’] Tell us when arrangements will be put in place.
• Do you have fraud risk assessment for this programme with appropriate arrangements in place to manage risks identified?
  • [If ‘No’] Tell us when a fraud risk assessment will be conducted.

Depending on which country your place is based in, we will also ask:

If England, Scotland or Wales:

• Has the accountable body made appropriate arrangements to consider their public sector equality duty when implementing the investment plan?
  • [If ‘No’] Tell us when arrangements will be put in place.
• Has the accountable body made appropriate arrangements to ensure that the requirements of the Subsidy Control Act will be followed when administering the funding?
  • [If ‘No’] Tell us when arrangements will be put in place.

If Northern Ireland:

• Has the accountable body made appropriate arrangements to consider Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act when implementing the investment plan?
  • [If ‘No’] Tell us when arrangements will be put in place.
• Has the accountable body made appropriate arrangements to ensure that the requirements of the Subsidy Control Act and state aid regulations will be followed when administering the funding?
  • [If ‘No’] Tell us when arrangements will be put in place.

Available resources and skills

• Tell us about the resources and skills available to support delivery in the first investment period.

Additional support

• Tell us which areas of support you may be interested in. You will have the option to select from the following:
  • Building data capabilities
  • Central training resources for Neighbourhood Boards
  • Community engagement
  • Longer-term partnership support from MHCLG
  • Planning and property
  • Procurement regulations
  • Shared learning on best practices
  • Subsidy Control Act
  • Other (please specify)
  • I am not interested in any further support

Declarations

You will be asked to confirm that you have read and agree with the declarations. The declarations differ depending on the country that your place is based in:

England or Wales

You must confirm that:

• the Neighbourhood Board has reviewed and approved this Regeneration Plan prior to submission
• the Section 151 Officer from the local authority acting as accountable body, or an individual with responsibility for finance where an alternative governance arrangement is in place, has reviewed and approved this Regeneration Plan
• you have considered the public sector equality duty when designing your investment plan

Scotland

You must confirm that:

• the Neighbourhood Board has reviewed and approved this Regeneration Plan prior to submission
• the Section 95 Officer from the local authority acting as accountable body, or an individual with responsibility for finance where an alternative governance arrangement is in place, has reviewed and approved this Regeneration Plan
• you have considered the public sector equality duty when designing your investment plan

Northern Ireland

You must confirm that:

• the Neighbourhood Board has reviewed and approved this Regeneration Plan prior to submission
• the Chief Financial Officer from the local authority acting as accountable body, or an individual with responsibility for finance where an alternative governance arrangement is in place, has reviewed and approved this Regeneration Plan
• the Neighbourhood Board has ensured the interventions contained in this Regeneration Plan are aligned with the policies and priorities of relevant Northern Ireland Executive’s Programme for Government (opens in new tab)
• you have considered Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act (Northern Ireland) when designing your investment plan