Neighbourhood CIL

Neighbourhood CIL (allocated) in 2024/25

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Neighbourhood CIL project spend 2024/25

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Completion data not available.

S106 Report

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Table 2.3

S106 Summary 2024/25

S106 Agreements signed in 2024/25

In 2024/25 we signed new S106s which secured a total of £654,473 in future developer contributions. The most significant agreements were:

• Land at Haven Farm, North Street, Sutton Valence - £242,000
• Land adjacent To Greensand Health Centre, Heath Road, Linton - £118,500

Non-monetary contributions - affordable housing

In relation to affordable housing, the total number of units which were agreed through S106 during the reported year was 269.

S106 Income in 2024/25

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S106 Expenditure in 2024/25

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*Completion data not available

S106 developer contributions are paid over a staggered period or ‘trigger points’ during the build-out of the development. This means there will be intervals in receiving the S106 monies which reflects in a fluctuation of the balance of monies collected.

Likewise, the expenditure balances will also be impacted by the timing of the delivery of projects. These are regulated within a S106 clause which allows time for the key infrastructure delivery partners in receipt of S106 money to plan and account for project delivery complexities. The clawback periods are between five and ten years.

The CIL Regulations (2019 Amendment) Regulation 121A (1) requires the infrastructure funding statement to include a statement of the infrastructure projects or types which will be or may be, wholly or partly funded by CIL.

The list below outlines the types of infrastructure that we intend will be, or may be, wholly or partly funded by CIL funds. This list does not signify a commitment to fund all the infrastructure listed. Nor does the inclusion of a type of infrastructure on the list guarantee or imply it will receive any CIL funding.

The 2019 CIL regulation amendment removed the previous restriction on the pooling of planning obligations towards a single piece of infrastructure.

Alongside CIL contributions, we may also seek planning obligations by way of a planning agreement (S106) where it can meet the statutory and policy tests and are in line with requirements set out in our adopted planning obligations supplementary planning document.

Future spend priorities

Affordable housing

The provision of affordable housing as part of new development will continue to be sought through S106s in line with ‘Policy SP20 Affordable Housing’ in the adopted Maidstone Borough Local Plan (2017), as well as the Affordable and Local Needs Housing Supplementary Planning Document (July 2020).

In exceptional circumstances where affordable housing cannot be provided on-site, we will agree in-lieu, to an affordable housing commuted sum contribution under a S106 which we will use to spend towards delivering new affordable homes across the borough.

We have collected a total of £3,040,918 from 'off-site' developer contributions for affordable housing. We intend to spend this money on our own building programme for which there is an ambition to eventually increase the portfolio to 1,000 homes.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure provision should align with the delivery of new development. Future income will be allocated towards much-needed infrastructure to support the growth of new development. Details of planned S106 expenditure across each main spend area 24/25 are set out below.

• affordable housing - across the borough, for example Corbens Place, Granville Road and Tonbridge Road sites (1000 homes)
• community Learning – Lenham Village Hall- Installation of Conversation and Adult Lip Reading Classes
• libraries - additional book stock at Lenham
• transportation – Barming bus alterations, bus service enhancements to routes 82, 64, and 12, additional bus services from Hollingbourne to Maidstone East, relocation of bus stop Heath Road, bus improvements to routes 12,24 and 82
• healthcare - Sutton Valence Group Practice, premises development at Len Valley Surgery,  facilities and refurbishment includes extensions, new carpets, IT equipment at Stockett Lane and Orchard Surgery, Wallis Avenue, Orchard Langley, The Mote and Cobtree, Northumberland Road and Shepway surgeries, Glebe Medical Centre, Blackthorn Medical Centre, Allington Park Surgery, Aylesford Medical Practice and Brewer Street surgery, Marden Medical Centre, Bowermount surgery and Lockmeadow Surgery, Grove Green, Staplehurst Health Centre, Boughton Monchelsea, Yeomans Lane Surgery and Yalding surgery
• Public Rights of Way in Bearsted
• open space - Marden playing fields, Stockett Lane, play areas in Headcorn, allotments in Barming, Clare Park multi use facilities, Tovil play area, Ulcombe recreation ground, King George V playing fields, Lime Trees play area and Surrenden playing field, Millennium River Park, Jubilee playing fields, Midley Close play area, Sandy Lane Penenden Heath, Barming Heath, and Gatland Lane, River Len Nature Reserve, Glebe Fields, Senacre recreation ground, Mote Park, White Beam Drive play area, William Pitt field, Cockpit play area, Hoggs Bridge Green, Brenchley Gardens
• community facility – Staplehurst village centre improvements
• town centre - greening and lighting project to provide more biodiversity and transform the town centre street scene from hard surfaces into visually attractive green spaces, Granada House - arts hub and maker space towards the refurbishment and fit-out of Units 2-4 Granada House to create a community arts hub and maker space, hireable exhibition space, workshop/meeting rooms, and retail space.
• railway station – Yalding, Staplehurst, Barming, Marden and Bearsted station improvements
• highways – M20 J5 white lining minor improvements, traffic displacement mitigation, works to Willington Street junction to Wheat Sheaf Junction improvements and Willington Street/Wallis Avenue junction improvements, upgrade junction at Millbank/North Street, Fountain Lane, and Tonbridge Road junction modification.
• woodland improvements – Woodcut Farm, Hollingbourne

If you have any further queries or comments about this statement, please do not hesitate to contact us by email CIL@maidstone.gov.uk

Annex 1

Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations (2019 amendment) Regulation 121a Schedule 2 Section 1 and Section 3.

Community Infrastructure Levy

Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations (2019 Amendment) Regulation 121A Schedule 2 Section 1

Section 106

Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations (2019 Amendment) Regulation 121A Schedule 2 Section 3