Purpose

To seek approval for expenditure on CIL Bids
under the CIL Expenditure Programme – July 2025

Content

It was
RESOLVED: -
 
1.1         
That the CIL Expenditure Programme (June 2025)
and accompanying Technical assessment of the following CIL
Bid  (forming Appendices A and B) be
approved including a decision on the CIL Bid for Cabinet to make as
follows:-
 
          
Decision for Cabinet to make: 
-  Local Infrastructure Fund

CIL Bid,
Location and Infrastructure Proposed

Amount of
CIL Bid and total cost of the infrastructure

Cabinet
Decision

M25-12
 
STOWMARKET
 
Toilets
Lift and Accessible Doors
 
The Factory
Building at the Food Museum
 
 
 
 
 

Amount of
CIL Bid £100,000.00
Total cost
of the project £141, 991.00
(excluding
VAT)
Other
sources of funding
National
Lottery Heritage Fund grant application (£41,991.00) –
expect outcome to be announced by end of July 2025
 

Recommendation to Cabinet to approve CIL Bid M25-12 for
£100,000.00  from the
Local  Infrastructure Fund (subject to
the earlier CIL Bid

 
1.2         
Cabinet also noted and endorsed this CIL
Expenditure Programme which includes 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, March 2024 and June 2025. The CIL
Expenditure Framework requires the production of at least two CIL
Expenditure Programmes for each District, each year, 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 – June 2025
 
Any Declarations of Interests Declared: None
Any Dispensation Granted: None