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Infrastructure Funding Statement

Meeting: 11/11/2021 - Cabinet (Item 42)

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Minutes:

The Portfolio Holder for Development & Conservation presented the report which looked at the proposed priorities for the Council’s new Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS). Members were advised that the Development & Conservation Advisory Committee had considered the same report and suggested that Cabinet should consider including Edenbridge under priorities for health and social care.

 

The Planning Policy Team Leader (Infrastructure) advised that local authorities are not bound by the priorities laid out in the IFS but that it would provide transparency to developers and the community as to what the Council’s intentions were. The report considered the type of projects and types of infrastructure what was prioritised last year, and looked at what the money had been spent on through Section 106 and CIL over the last few years.

 

Public Sector Equality Duty

Members noted that consideration had been given to impacts under the Public Sector Equality Duty.

 

Resolved: That

 

a)     The criteria for prioritising infrastructure projects for funding in the Infrastructure Funding Statement, as set out below, be agreed;

·           The projects fall with the infrastructure types/projects identified in the IFS report.

·           The projects have been identified in our Infrastructure Delivery Plan. (This ensures that the infrastructure prioritised supports the Local Plan).

·           The projects support and are clearly related to proposed or allocated development in the District. They therefore provide a strong link between development and the proposed project.

·           That there is a strong social, environmental or economic justification for the scheme.

·           That projects have not received CIL previously.

·           The scheme has support from infrastructure providers

·           That there is a need or it will be expected to be delivered within the next 5 years.

·           That it is identified as having a critical or high need where the project has to be delivered prior to any development to support it.

·           Where it is likely that the infrastructure project can be delivered within the plan period as there are little or no issues with funding or landownership.

·           Where there is a clear plan as to how the project would be funded; and

b)   the specific projects and types of Infrastructure recommended in paragraphs 28 – 38 of the report, be identified in the Infrastructure Funding Statement as having a priority for full or partial funding, with the inclusion of Edenbridge under priorities under Health and Social Care.

 

 


 

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