Blackpool is being given more than £3 million to help kick-start the building of new homes on council owned land.



The cash is coming from the government's Land Release Fund.

A project in Poulton-Le-Fylde will receive £1.7 million and could see up to 330 homes potentially built using Japanese modular housing techniques.

A scheme for land on Bispham Road has been awarded just over a million pounds, while another on Ryscar Way gets £400,000.

The aim of the money is to combat barriers which would otherwise make land unusable for development, such as road building, crossings, asbestos removal and bat alleviation.

Housing and Planning Minister Dominic Raab said: ''We are investing £45 million to build roads and provide utilities, so councils can release the land to get up to 7,280 new homes built.

''It's part of our strategy to build the homes Britain needs, and carry local communities with us.

''We're determined to make buying or renting more affordable for young families and those on low or middle incomes.''

The Land Release Fund is being administered through a partnership with the Local Government Association and Cabinet Office’s One Public Estate (OPE) programme, which provides councils with funding and access to practical support to deliver property-based projects with wider public sector partners.

OPE already works with 90% of councils in England to transform local communities and services through large scale economic growth, delivering new jobs and new homes.