Decision Maker: Mid Suffolk Cabinet

Outcome:

Is Key Decision?: Yes

Is Callable In?: Yes

Date of Decision: July 8, 2025

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