Agenda item

The Council had been collecting Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding since the Charging Schedule come into effect on 1 December 2014.  The CIL Regulations required that the Council, as the collecting authority, pay money over to the parishes, decide how to use that the Fund and to publish details of its CIL income and expenditure.

The Council had received a total of £1, 333,529.40 for the reporting period 1 April – 30 September 2017.  A breakdown of the CIL receipts was reported to the Executive.

The Executive was advised that payments to parishes in the reporting period 1April 2017 – 30 September 2017 had been as follows.

a)    Windlesham £11,418.00

b)    West End £2,385.57

c)     Bisley £8,844.00

In March 2015, the Executive had agreed that a 15% proportion would also be made available to spend for non-parished areas according to local priorities.  The amount collected within these areas had been as follows:

a)    Frimley £2,222.10

b)    Heatherside £8,146.44

c)     Town £395.17

It was proposed that Ward Councillors for the non-parished areas be asked to submit suggestions and bids for projects.  Ward Councillors could also choose to save the money to roll forward to fund larger projects or combine across wards for jointly beneficial projects.

Local projects would then be put forward to the Executive for funding in 2018/19 in combination with any project taken forward from any remaining Planning Infrastructure Contributions.

In response to a question relating to the current level of the Fund, the Finance Portfolio agreed to email details to Members.

Resolved

(i)          to note the Community Infrastructure Levy monies received to date;

(ii)        that Ward Councillors for the non-parished areas be asked to submit ideas to the CIL Governance Panel for spending CIL generated income within their wards; and

(iii)      that the remaining CIL contributions held by the Council be retained for spending to support key priorities.