In accordance with the Regulation 121B Monitoring Report Knaresborough Town Council publishes their CIL monitoring report on a yearly basis. This includes how much money Knaresborough Town Council has received in CIL funding.
How CIL is
allocated to parish councils
Under the CIL regulations, we are required to pay to parish councils the Neighbourhood portion of 15% (or 25% to those Parishes which have an adopted Neighbourhood Development Plan) of any CIL receipts from developments within those areas.
We pass accumulated funds to the parish council every 6 months:
- CIL receipts received by the council between 1 April to 30 September, are to be paid to parish councils by 28 October.
- CIL receipts received by the council between 1 October to 31 March, are to be paid to parish councils by 28 April.
These payments are generally referred to as the ‘Neighbourhood Portion’ or ‘Neighbourhood Fund’.
If no income has been received by the Council for a development commenced in the Parish Council area, then no CIL payments are passed on. No payment may be received if for example the development has had a CIL Relief or Exemption applied.
How the Parish Council funds must be spent
The neighbourhood portion of the levy can be spent on a wider range of things than the rest of the levy, provided that, it meets the requirement to 'support the development of the area' (as per Regulation 59c of the Community Infrastructure Regulations 2010, as amended).
CIL Regulation 59 sets out that the CIL Receipts must be used on infrastructure to support development in that area (as below). A local council must use CIL receipts passed to it in accordance with Regulation 59a or 59b to support the development of the local council’s area, or any part of that area, by funding
a) The provision, improvement, replacement, operation, or maintenance of infrastructure;
or
b) Anything else that is concerned with addressing the demands that development places on an area.
This wider definition means that the neighbourhood portion can be spent on things other than infrastructure (as defined in the Community Infrastructure Levy regulations) provided it is concerned with addressing the demands that development places on the parish's area.
Infrastructure is broadly defined in the Town and Country Planning Act 2008, and typically covers 3 broad categories
• Physical infrastructure: e.g. highways, transport links, cycleways, energy supply, water, flood alleviation, waste management
• Social infrastructure: e.g. education, health, social care, emergency services, art and culture, sport halls community halls
• Green infrastructure: e.g. parks, woodlands, play-areas, public open spaces
Monies can also be used to provide match funding with other income streams to make the most efficient use of funding to benefit the local community.
It is strongly suggested that Parish Councils spend their CIL funds in consultation with their local community, and it may help to draw up a ‘wish-list’ of projects which you can then consider and prioritise should funding become available to the Parish Council.
Note - Parish Councils do not have to use all the available funds from each development in one go. The key is to ensure all monies are used appropriately and in time.
Time restrictions for the use of CIL receipts for Parish Councils are 5yrs from the date the of the payment is made to the Parish Council. If anyone has any concerns regarding this timescale, please contact us.
If a parish council has failed to spend CIL funds passed to it within 5 years of receipt or has applied the funds not in accordance with the regulations, they maybe served a notice requiring the Parish Council to repay some or all the receipts passed.