Agenda item - Community Infrastructure Levy – Allocation and future governance arrangements

1)             Cabinet agrees to use £2.42m of CIL Citywide receipts to support existing priority seafront capital regeneration project expenditure in 24/25.

2)             Cabinet agrees to use up to £184k of CIL Citywide receipts to support eligible projects in the Thriving Communities Fund programme

3)             Cabinet agrees to use £235.9k of CIL Citywide receipts to top up available Neighbourhood CIL funds in 17 wards (as outlined in Appendix B of this report).

4)             Cabinet requests an annual report that will outline how residual s106/CIL and neighbourhood CIL money has been spent over the previous 12 months and to provide a programme of options for spending forecast CIL money to ensure projects are supporting Council infrastructure priorities. 

174.1      Cabinet considered a report that seeks approval to allocate Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) receipts and also proposed new governance arrangements for spending of neighbourhood CIL as well as planning future CIL expenditure to align with the cabinet decision making process.

174.2      Councillors Cattell, Robins, Alexander, Miller, Muten and Robinson contributed to the debate of the report.

174.3      Resolved-

1)               Cabinet agrees to use £2.42m of CIL Citywide receipts to support existing priority seafront capital regeneration project expenditure in 24/25.

2)               Cabinet agrees to use up to £184k of CIL Citywide receipts to support eligible projects in the Thriving Communities Fund programme

3)               Cabinet agrees to use £235.9k of CIL Citywide receipts to top up available Neighbourhood CIL funds in 17 wards (as outlined in Appendix B of this report).

4)               Cabinet requests an annual report that will outline how residual s106/CIL and neighbourhood CIL money has been spent over the previous 12 months and to provide a programme of options for spending forecast CIL money to ensure projects are supporting Council infrastructure priorities.