The Croydon Monitoring Report
Planning Obligations and Community Infrastructure Levy
December 2014
Planning Obligations
Planning obligations (s106 agreements) are legal
agreements negotiated on major planning applications
to mitigate against the impact of the development
Planning obligations have to be spent on particular
infrastructure types or projects set out in each
individual agreement
In July 2014 the amount of money raised through
planning obligations and available to spend on 26
different project types across a number of categories
was…
Planning Obligations
There are 26 project types with planning obligation money available
£2.31m
available to
spend on
Sustainable
Transport
For example
there is £1.12m
available to
spend on Health
Air Quality
Business Centre refurbishment
Croydon Metropolitan Centre
East Croydon station
Education
Environmental improvement
Footways and pedestrian environment
General
Health
Highways Works
Housing
Interest received
Libraries
Parking
Public Art
Public Realm improvements
Recreational Open Space
Renewable Energy contributions
S106 Bus Improvement contribution
S106 Equality Programme
Skyline project
£2.35m
available to
spend for
Affordable
Housing
£1.7m available to spend on
Recreational Open Space
Sustainable Transport
TfL Tramlink
Tree planting and maintenance
Vision 2020
Wettern Tree Gdns - Signage Vandalism
Planning Obligations
The Council’s Infrastructure
Finance Group determines
which projects will be funded in
whole or in part from planning
obligations and ensures that
the allocated money is in
accordance with the terms of
the s106 agreement
By July 2014 a total of
£2.2million of funding has
been agreed to support
necessary infrastructure
identified in the Croydon
Infrastructure Delivery Plan and
the Capital Programme
Since October 2013 an
additional £992,000 of funding
has been agreed across five
different project types
Agreed spending since October 2013
Agreed spending October 2012 - October 2013
Agreed spending to October 2012
£800,000.00
£700,000.00
£600,000.00
£500,000.00
£400,000.00
£300,000.00
£200,000.00
£100,000.00
£0.00
Planning Obligations
Applications to
the Infrastructure
Finance Group
have steadily
increased since
its inception in
July 2012
During 2014 the Infrastructure
Finance Group has broadened the
scope of the bidding process and
the range of Council services and
thirds parties invited to bid. This will
continue in 2015.
Recreational Open
Space, Housing and
Sustainable
Transport have
benefited from the
most funding
Air Quality
Business Centre refurbishment
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION
£0.00
£29,971.77
£0.00
£293,556.45
£261,517.73
Croydon Metropolitan Centre
£0.00
£0.00
East Croydon station
Education
Environmental improvement
Footways and pedestrian environment
£390,100.89
General
Health
Highways Works
£695,798.20
£0.00
£51,528.60
Housing
Interest received
Libraries
£333,300.00
£0.00
£172,749.58
Management costs
Parking
Public Art
Public Realm improvements
Planning Obligations
At present the income from planning
obligations is greater (due to recovery)
than the total amount of agreed spending
Up to October 2012
Since November 2012 the Council
spending has been about 30% of its
planning obligations income
November 2012-October 2013
November 2013-July 2014
£14,000,000.00
£12,000,000.00
£10,000,000.00
£8,000,000.00
£6,000,000.00
£4,000,000.00
£2,000,000.00
£0.00
Total Income
Total spending
Community Infrastructure Levy
Croydon’s Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) was
introduced on 1st April 2013 and raises funds to support the
provision of new infrastructure identified in the Council’s
Infrastructure Delivery Plan and Capital Programme
The Council will assign the spending of Croydon’s CIL,
which can be spent on the provision, improvement,
replacement, operation or maintenance of…
Community Infrastructure Levy
At the end of the first year of its operations (on the
31st March 2014 the total amount of money raised
through Croydon’s Community Infrastructure Levy
was….
Between 1st April and 30th September a further
£513,825.02 has been raised by the borough’s
Community Infrastructure Levy bringing the total to
£722,952.62
Community Infrastructure Levy
As the amount collected in
the first year of operation was
just over £200k this money
has been banked to spend
on infrastructure from 2015
onwards when there will be
more Community
Infrastructure Levy funding
available
There will be consultation
with local communities on
what they would like to see
this 15% of Community
Infrastructure Levy funding
spent on post-2015
15% of the money raised
from Croydon’s
Community Infrastructure
Levy will be spent in
specific Places of Croydon
(identified in the Croydon
Local Plan)
Future Monitoring Reports
will have information on
how this proportion of the
Community Infrastructure
Levy has been spent and
how much each of the 16
Places of Croydon
received
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