Decision - Community Infrastructure Levy – Allocation and future governance arrangements

This report recommends how to allocate circa £2.4M of accumulated Citywide Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding. It also updates governance arrangements for the planning and oversight of Neighbourhood CIL and residual S106 receipts.

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.

The report proposed allocating Community Infrastructure Levy receipts to seafront regeneration, the Thriving Communities Fund and neighbourhood funding across 17 wards. It also proposed new governance arrangements, including an officer oversight board and annual reporting to Cabinet on CIL and residual Section 106 spending.