Spending CIL

Spending Strategic CIL

Strategic CIL is the share of the revenue retained by the council to be spent on:

‘the provision, improvement, replacement, operation, or maintenance of public infrastructure needed to support the development of the area’.

Infrastructure that can be funded includes schools, healthcare, transport, community and sports facilities.

The projects on which the borough council is proposing to spend CIL are set out in the Infrastructure List. Further information about how infrastructure will be funded is set out in the council’s Planning Obligations for Infrastructure Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) (March 2018)

Infrastructure funding statement

Government regulations have required CIL Charging Authorities to prepare an Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) for each financial year since 2019/20.

The purpose of this report is to outline details of what Section 106 and CIL has been received and spent in the previous year.

Next Spending Neighbourhood CIL

Spending Neighbourhood CIL

Guidance

A proportion of the levy secured from new development (25% if the area has a Neighbourhood Plan, 15% if it does not) is passed on to the relevant Town or Parish Council where that development has taken place. This is known as the Neighbourhood Fund.

In accordance with Section 59C of the Community Infrastructure Levy (Amendment) Regulations 2013, this must be used to:

Support the development of the local council’s area by funding:

a) the provision, improvement, replacement, operation or maintenance of infrastructure
b) anything else that is concerned with addressing the demands that development places on an area.

The council has produced a CIL Guide for Town and Parish councillors, which provides further information such as:

roles and responsibilities
how Neighbourhood CIL can be spent and
what reporting requirements are placed on Town and Parish Councils

Neighbourhood CIL for areas without Town or Parish Councils

CIL legislation requires that a proportion of the collected CIL funds are passed to the relevant parish or town councils for them to spend in their local area. However, where parish and town councils do not exist, the legislation does not allow the council to pass the funds directly to parish meetings or other local representatives. As a consequence of this, for the unparished areas of Basingstoke town and the eight rural communities that have parish meetings, the council have put a process in place to work with local community representatives to spend the money on their behalf.

Projects can be put forward to BDBC parish meetings (with the support of local ward councillors) or by local ward councillors where parish meetings do not exist. Applications for NCIL can be submitted at any time of year.

Please complete the application form and return it to CILinfrastructure@basingstoke.gov.uk

The council has produced a Neighbourhood CIL Guidance Note for areas without Parish Councils which provides further guidance.

Neighbourhood CIL spend

The following statements set out how much Neighbourhood CIL has been passed to town and parish councils and unparished wards and parish meeting areas, and our most up-to-date information on how much has been spent.

In line with the CIL Regulations, the following details have been provided from relevant town and parish councils about the amount of CIL received and spent each year: