Purpose

To
approve BDC CIL Expenditure Programme November 2025

Content

It was
RESOLVED: -
 

1.1         
That the CIL Expenditure Programme (September
2025) and accompanying Technical assessments of the following two
CIL Bids (forming Appendices A and B) to be approved/noted
(including decisions on these CIL Bids for Cabinet to make/note) as
follows:-
 
Decisions
for Cabinet to make: - Strategic Infrastructure Fund
 

CIL    
Bid,         
Location and Infrastructure Proposed

Amount of CIL Bid and total cost of the
infrastructure
 

Cabinet Decision

B25-02
 
SUDBURY
 
Sudbury
Chilton Depot Transformation Project

Amount        of         
CIL     Bid
£107,761.16
 
Total
project cost £186,775.28 (excluding VAT)
 
Total
eligible project costs £107,761.16 (excluding VAT)
 
Other
sources of funding: -
 
BDC
District Council Funding

Recommendation to Cabinet to approve this CIL Bid B25-02 for
£107,761.16 from the Strategic Infrastructure Fund
 

 
Delegated
Decisions for Cabinet to note: - (Local Infrastructure
Funds)
 

CIL    
Bid,         
Location and Infrastructure Proposed

Amount of CIL Bid and total cost of the
infrastructure
 

Cabinet Decision

B25-01
 
HITCHAM
 
Hitcham
Village Hall Solar project

Amount of
CIL Bid £9,168.75
 
Total
eligible project costs £12,225.00 (excluding VAT)
 
Other
sources of funding
 
£3,056.25 Village Hall Contribution

Recommendation to Cabinet to note the delegated decision for
approved CIL Bid B25-01 for £9,168.75 from the Local
Infrastructure Fund

 

1.2         
Cabinet are also asked to note and endorse 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), March 2023, March 2024,June 2025 and September 2025. 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 –
June 2025

·       
Eighth Review –
planned for Winter 2025 with presentation to Council in Spring
2026
 
 
Any Declarations of Interests Declared: None
Any Dispensation Granted: None