Decision details

Claire Upton-Brown presented the report by the Director of Culture & City Development which aimed to put in place a less cumbersome process to spend CIL than the original procedure introduced in 2013.  The Leader welcomed this and wished to add an additional recommendation (c) regarding the DCLG regulations for neighbourhood contributions to enable spend across ward boundaries where it was appropriate to do so.

DECISIONS: the Cabinet agreed the revised process for agreeing the spending of the neighbourhood proportion of the levy, as set out in section 4 of this report. That is:

a)           To delegate the function of decisions as to the expenditure of CIL to the Assistant Director of Culture & City Development in consultation with the S.151 Officer;

b)           To adopt the procedure referred to in section 4 of the report;

c)           Cabinet noted that DCLG regulations require that neighbourhood contributions from the biggest schemes are not pooled on a city wide basis in areas with adopted Neighbourhood Plans and therefore Cabinet will in general not look to allocate pooled Neighbourhood Proportion funds to schemes in such areas.