Purpose

To
approve expenditure on CIL Bids under the CIL Expenditure Programme
June 2025

Content

It was
RESOLVED: -
 
1.1        
That the CIL Expenditure Programme (June 2025)
and accompanying Technical assessments of the following three CIL
Bids 
(forming Appendices A and B) be approved (including
decisions on these CIL Bids for Cabinet to make/note) as
follows:-
 
Decisions
for Cabinet to make:  - Ringfenced
Infrastructure Fund (Brantham)

CIL Bid,
Location and Infrastructure Proposed

Amount of
CIL Bid and total cost of the infrastructure

Cabinet
Decision

B24-18
 
BRANTHAM
 
Village
Hall Toilets

Amount of
CIL Bid £19,462.50
Total cost
of the project £25,950.00  (eligible costs including VAT)
Other
funding
Brantham
Parish Council £3,296.25
Village
Hall Management Committee £3,191.25

Recommendation to Cabinet to approve CIL Bid B24-18 for
£19,462.50 from the Ringfenced Infrastructure Fund

 
Delegated
Decisions for Cabinet to note: 
-  Ringfenced
Infrastructure Fund Sudbury) and Local Infrastructure Fund and
Local Infrastructure Fund (Shimpling)

CIL Bid,
Location and Infrastructure Proposed

Amount of
CIL Bid and total cost of the infrastructure

Cabinet
Decision

B24-15
SUDBURY

Amount of
CIL Bid 
£9,999.00  
Total
eligible project costs £28,314.00 (excluding VAT)
Other
funding
Rotary Club
of Sudbury £200.00
Concert
Donations £1,943.00
SCC Cllr
Jessie Carter £1,000.00
BDC Cllr
Laura Smith £375.00
Sudbury
Freeman’s Trust £500.00
JA Fund
£4,297.00
Private
Donation £5,000.00
Bernard
Sunley £5,000.00

Recommendation to Cabinet to note the delegated decision for
approved CIL Bid B24-15 for £9,999    from the Ringfenced Infrastructure
Fund (£790.14) and the Local Infrastructure Fund
(£9,208.86)

B24-11
SHIMPLING
 

Amount of
CIL Bid 
£9,217.50  
Total
eligible project costs £12,290.00 (excluding VAT)
Other
funding
Rural
Communities Fund £3,072.50

Recommendation to Cabinet to note the delegated decision for
approved CIL Bid B24-11 for £9,217.50    from the Local Infrastructure
Fund

 
1.2        
Cabinet were also
asked to note and endorse this CIL Expenditure Programme which
included details of emerging infrastructure/CIL Bids (Appendix A
Section C).
 
REASON FOR
DECISION
 
Community
Infrastructure Levy (CIL) monies have been collected since the
implementation of CIL on the 11th April
2016. The CIL Expenditure Framework was originally adopted in April
2018 and reviewed with amendments adopted by both Councils in March
2019, April 2020, March 2021, July 2022 (Mid Suffolk), October 2022
(Babergh) and in March 2023 and March 2024. The CIL Expenditure
Framework requires the production of a CIL Expenditure Programme
for each District and contains decisions for Cabinet to make or
note on CIL Bids for CIL expenditure. These decisions relating to
the expenditure of CIL monies form one of the ways in which
necessary infrastructure supporting growth is delivered.
 
Alternative
Options Considered and Rejected:
 
There is a diverse spectrum of approaches to CIL expenditure
across the country from Unitary Authorities who have absorbed CIL
into their individual Capital Programmes to others who ringfence
all funds to be spent locally. A range of different approaches was
identified in Appendix A of the Framework for CIL Expenditure
report provided to Cabinet’s on the 5th and
8th of February 2018 and discussed in full during the
workshops with the Joint Member advisory panel. Members adopted the
original Framework documents set out in paragraph 1.1 above by
Council decision in April 2018. These were subsequently reviewed
and adopted by both Councils on:-
 

·        
First Review - March 2019

·        
Second Review – April 2020

·        
Third Review – March 2021

·        
Fourth Review – 21st July 2022 (Mid
Suffolk) and 
6th October 2022 (Babergh)

·        
Fifth Review -  March 2023

·        
Sixth Review – March 2024

·        
Seventh Review – Has taken place (April 2025)
with outcomes likely to be presented for consideration to full
Council in June 2025.
Any Declarations of Interests Declared: None
Any Dispensation Granted: None