Land Remediation Pathfinder Scheme

The Land Remediation Pathfinder Scheme offers up to £30 million to clean up contaminated land in England. This is an £80 million pilot scheme running for four years. It helps local authorities when landfill tax makes cleanup projects too expensive. The scheme focuses on industrial sites, coastal landfills, and urban areas. You need to submit an Expression of Interest first. There is also separate funding of £5,000 to £30 million to help authorities prepare their main applications. The deadline for expressions of interest is 8 May 2026.

This grant is for local authorities, combined authorities, and mayoral development corporations in England. You need contaminated land that is too expensive to clean up because of landfill tax costs. The land must be industrial, coastal landfill, or urban sites.

This is an Expression of Interest opportunity for the Land Remediation Pathfinder Scheme (LRPS). LRPS is a £80 million pilot scheme funded by Defra to support local authorities, combined authorities, and mayoral development corporations in England over a period of four years to remediate contaminated land in situations where landfill tax makes the project financially unviable, across a small number of eligible sites in a selected group of environmental contexts: industrial, coastal landfill and urban. The LRPS EOI will also signpost the Local Authority Support Strand (LASS), which will provide funding to help a number of authorities prepare LRPS bids and build longer-term capacity for their land contamination responsibilities in relation to LRPS sites.

You must first submit an Expression of Interest for this scheme. The application process has not been fully detailed yet. There is also a Local Authority Support Strand to help you prepare your main application.