Response 4091104

Response to request for information

Reference

4091104

Response date

24 August 2026

Request

Please provide the following information covering Section 106 planning obligation contributions and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) receipts held by the council.

1. The closing (unspent) balance of Section 106 monies held by the council at the end of each financial year from 2019/20 to 2025/26.
2. The closing (unspent) balance of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) receipts held by the council at the end of each of the same financial years.
3. The total value of a) Section 106 and b) CIL monies that have been returned or repaid to developers in each financial year from 2016/17 to 2025/26 (or the closest available ten-year range), for any reason.

Response

This information is published as part of our Annual Infrastructure Funding Statement, in respect of tax year 2025/26 the statement has not yet been published, but its publication is required by the end of the following calendar year (ie 31 December 2026). Information already published, or due to be published, is exempt from release under FOI requests and as such I would direct you to the published statements on our website at Community Infrastructure Levy.

The final part of your request is related to fee repayments. 

Repayments have been made in June 2021 (21/22 tax year) for £63,545.79 - this was as a consequence of a criterion within a legal agreement being met. In this instance a payment received was required to be partly repaid if the infrastructure provider (County Council) elected to extend an existing school rather than building a new one. 

In March 2022 a repayment was made of £17,317.47 (also 21/22 tax year) - again this was as a consequence of a criterion within the legal agreement. We had two adjacent sites, with no certainty that both would be delivered. The second site was obliged to make a payment but this was only required if the other development didn't go ahead and provide a bus stop. After the payment had been made, the other development did proceed, triggering the refund. 

In April of 2025 a repayment was made of £62.24 (25/26 Tax year) in a case where a developer had made a payment with a miscalculation of indexation. The payment received represented an over-payment and a partial refund was issued as a result.

These are the only instances of repayments within the specified time period.