RE: Request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Section 106 agreements and the Community Infrastructure Levy are measures affecting land and landscape within the meaning of regulation 2(1)(c), and the financial information requested falls within regulation 2(1)(e). If you consider that any part of this request is not environmental information, please treat that part as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and tell me which parts you have handled under which regime.
Dear Information Team
This is an information request regarding Section 106 and CIL receipts held for open space and green infrastructure
Please include the following information for the following years 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26
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• The total value of Section 106 contributions held by the authority but not spent at the end of each financial year.
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• Of that total, the value held for open space purposes (as defined below).
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• The total value of Community Infrastructure Levy receipts held but not yet spent at the end of each financial year requested, and the
• value of that total allocated to open space purposes in your current Infrastructure List or equivalent.
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• The date of receipt of the oldest Section 106 contribution for open space purposes that remains unspent, and its value.
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• For each financial year, the value of Section 106 contributions repaid to developers because the time limit for spending them expired,
• and the value of that which was for open space purposes.
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• For each financial year, the value of Section 106 and CIL money actually spent on open space purposes.
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By “open space”, I mean parks, public gardens, play areas, playing fields, allotments, woodland, nature reserves, green corridors and any other green or blue space intended for public access, including anything your authority categorises as “green infrastructure”, “open space”, “play”, “recreation” or “biodiversity/nature”.
If this is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.