Issue - meetings

Planning and Economic Development Portfolio

To consider report PES/388 of the Head of Economy and Planning.

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet

a)         endorses the Annual Review findings in this report, the CIL funds received to date and the overall anticipated CIL contributions, to be received by 2036/37.

b)         approves the proposed CIL strategic infrastructure spend priorities to end March 2025 (Section 7.4 of report PES/388), (unchanged from last year’s review).

c)         approves that the Infrastructure Business Plan (Appendix A of report PES/388), including the funding programme, will continue to be reviewed on an annual basis to take into account any changes in strategic infrastructure priorities and fluctuations in CIL receipts compared to the forecast. The next review is proposed to take place in March 2023

d)         agrees to continue the Crowdfund Crawley project for a further year with the administration costs associated with the site being paid for from the CIL contributions.

e)         agrees to increase the funding allocated to the Crowdfund Crawley project for 2022-23 to £50,000 of CIL monies.

Reasons for the Recommendations

To provide clarity on the way forward for Crawley’s Infrastructure Business Plan and the priority schemes for the CIL Strategic Infrastructure strand spend.

To ensure best practice for the ongoing distribution of the Neighbourhood Improvement Strand CIL monies, in line with government regulations. The “Crowdfund Crawley” initiative will be reviewed over 2022/23 to assess the impact that Covid and reduction of additional funding sources has on the use of the site.

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development presented report PES/388 of the Head of Economy and Planning.  The report provided Cabinet with an update on the collection and administration of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) monies. It was explained that the as of January 2022 the Council had collected £2,017,565.75 in CIL contributions. It was noted that the proposed CIL strategic infrastructure spend priorities to the end of March 2025, was set out in section 7 of the report. The report also provided the Cabinet with an update on the fourth year of the pilot scheme for crowdfunding - Crowdfund Crawley.

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet

a)              endorses the Annual Review findings in this report, the CIL funds received to date and the overall anticipated CIL contributions, to be received by 2036/37.

b)              approves the proposed CIL strategic infrastructure spend priorities to end March 2025 (Section 7.4 of report PES/388), (unchanged from last year’s review).

c)              approves that the Infrastructure Business Plan (Appendix A of report PES/388), including the funding programme, will continue to be reviewed on an annual basis to take into account any changes in strategic infrastructure priorities and fluctuations in CIL receipts compared to the forecast. The next review is proposed to take place in March 2023.

d)              agrees to continue the Crowdfund Crawley project for a further year with the administration costs associated with the site being paid for from the CIL contributions.

e)              agrees to increase the funding allocated to the Crowdfund Crawley project for 2022-23 to £50,000 of CIL monies.

Reasons for the Recommendations

To provide clarity on the way forward for Crawley’s Infrastructure Business Plan and the priority schemes for the CIL Strategic Infrastructure strand spend.

To ensure best practice for the ongoing distribution of the Neighbourhood Improvement Strand CIL monies, in line with government regulations. The “Crowdfund Crawley” initiative will be reviewed over 2022/23 to assess the impact that Covid and reduction of additional funding sources has on the use of the site.