Agenda item

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

The Committee received a report of the Director of the Built Environment detailing the progress made in securing and implementing financial and non-financial planning obligations secured under the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 (As amended)(CIL), Section 106 (S106) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (The Act) and The London Plan, in the financial year 2015 to 2016. The report also provided an analysis for the period and included a financial summary. 

Noting that only £51.8m of the £128.6m S106 monies received so far had been spent, Members sought assurances that the funds would be committed to appropriate projects and not returned to developers unused. It was advised that a review was currently underway to improve the efficiency with which these monies were spent to ensure that this was the case and the Chief Planning Officer confirmed that no funds had been required to be returned to developers to date.

In response to further questions, it was clarified that the Mayoral CIL monies were currently all committed to the Crossrail project. It was also confirmed that S106 agreements were used to secure non-financial obligations as far as possible, within the limits provided by the three statutory and policy tests for the use of planning obligations.

RESOLVED: That the report be received and its content noted.

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RESOLVED: With two hours having elapsed since the start of the meeting, in accordance with Standing Order No. 40 the Committee agreed at this point to extend the meeting by up to thirty minutes.

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