Nature Towns and Cities decisions, July 2025

Nature Towns and Cities decisions, July 2025

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Nature Towns and Cities decisions made at the Board meeting on 4 July 2025.

Schedule of Decisions

#NTC Nature Positive Portsmouth (Better lives where nature thrives)

Applicant: Portsmouth City Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £895,818 (89%)

#NTC Bradford's Green Blue Steppingstones - Connecting People and Nature Across Our Towns and City

Applicant: City Of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £848,503 (89%)

#NTC Connecting through Nature

Applicant: Sunderland City Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £490,000 (82%)

#NTC - Stronger Fairer Greener Cardiff

Applicant: Cardiff Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC "Antrim and Newtownabbey: A Borough in Harmony - Nature and Community Flourishing Together"

Applicant: Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC NatureCityNorwich

Applicant: Norwich City Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £775,311 (70%)

#NTC Flintshire Urban roots: Naturally thriving communities

Applicant: Flintshire County Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Green Futures Glasgow: Building a Nature-Rich, Equitable Green Network

Applicant: Glasgow City Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Dundee: A Nature Literate City

Applicant: Dundee City Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Tees Urban Nature Network: Connecting communities and restoring natural heritage

Applicant: Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £649,000 (87%)

#NTC Torfaen healthy planet, healthy people project

Applicant: Torfaen County Borough Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £808,315 (95%)

#NTC Belfast: Breaking through Barriers to Connect People and Nature

Applicant: Belfast City Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £850,514 (92%)

#NTC Green Utopia 2050

Applicant: Derry City and Strabane District Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Nature Neighbourhoods for all

Applicant: London Borough of Lewisham

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £840,000 (91%)

#NTC Climate Resilient Communities

Applicant: Brighton & Hove City Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Green For All

Applicant: Coventry City Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £989,685 (57%)

#NTC East London Green Alliance (ELGA)

Applicant: London Borough of Redbridge

Decision: Reject

#NTC Transforming Fife's Greenspace

Applicant: Fife Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £800,000 (95%)

#NTC NL Nearer to Nature

Applicant: North Lanarkshire Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £639,035 (72%)

#NTC Community Greenways: Urban Green Revival

Applicant: Salford City Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £999,476 (95%)

#NTC: Nature Together

Applicant: Bristol City Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £984,126 (89%)

#NTC Leicester Nature City

Applicant: The Trent Rivers Trust

Decision: Reject

#NTC West London Regional Park

Applicant: London Borough of Ealing

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £999,595 (93%)

#NTC East Lothian Greenspaces for Health and Wellbeing

Applicant: East Lothian Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Roots to healthy places - Nature connections in Luton

Applicant: Luton Borough Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £958,298 (93%)

#NTC Green-Blue Heart

Applicant: Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Carn to Coast: working together to bring nature into the very heart of every neighbourhood for all to enjoy

Applicant: Cornwall Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Bigger, Better, More Joined Up - It's in our Nature, It's in our LCR.

Applicant: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £999,951 (95%)

#NTC Nature Town Oldham

Applicant: Oldham Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Coastal Connection

Applicant: Thanet District Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC:Lincoln Green-bringing people & nature together in our City

Applicant: City of Lincoln Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Walsall's Nature and Health Strategy (Walsall's NHS)

Applicant: Walsall Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £999,996 (95%)

#NTC The Green Revolution (Derby)

Applicant: Derby City Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Nature's Way for Torbay - Building an Integrated and Inclusive Green-Blue Framework together

Applicant: Torbay Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Green Grid - Southampton's Natural Network

Applicant: Southampton City Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC GreenWave Blackpool

Applicant: Groundwork Cheshire Lancashire & Merseyside

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £599,495 (63%)

#NTC Greening Up North East Lincolnshire

Applicant: North East Lincolnshire Council

Decision: Reject

#NTC Port Talbot - Natures back in town

Applicant: Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council

Decision: Award Delivery grant of £339,471 (91%)

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