Re: Leamington new ground situation

By 70s Stalwart (v2)1/6 17:43Sun Jun 1 17:43:15 2025In response to Re: Leamington new ground situation

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A retired town planner says:

CIL contributions are a fixed tariff (a development tax, really) that can be used to fund anything in an agreed list of infrastructure projects, which is updated annually.

S106 contributions are more flexible, often used as a bargaining tool, but must be: i) necessary to allow the application to be permitted; ii) directly related to the development; and iii) ‘fairly and reasonably related in scale and kind to the development to be permitted’.

Consequently, whereas CIL contributions collected from developments anywhere in the Borough could potentially be used to fund the construction of a football stadium (provided it appeared on the Council’s approved list of CIL projects), S106 financial contributions are not able to be used in that way, because of the legal tests set out in the legislation.

So, CIL policy would need to adopted by N&BBC, and a football stadium included in the list of CIL projects, before there is any realistic hope of money received from planning ‘gain’ being directed toward the the construction of a new home for Boro/Town in Nuneaton.