CIL Expenditure

The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a planning charge, introduced by the Planning Act 2008 as a tool for local authorities in England and Wales to help deliver infrastructure to support the development of their area. It came into force on 6 April 2010 through the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010.

CIL is a levy that local authorities can choose to charge on new developments in their area. The money should be used to support development by funding infrastructure that the council, local community and neighborhoods want.

For background information as to how CIL works please read the Planning Practice Guidance on CIL at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/community-infrastructure-levy.

CIL IN MID SUFFOLK

Mid Suffolk District Council has adopted a CIL Charging Schedule which sets out the rate per square meter for charged developments which is payable on commencement of Permitted Development as well as Planning Permission development.

The Babergh and Mid Suffolk Infrastructure Team are responsible for administering the collection of CIL, payments to parish and town councils and district spending.

Click here for an overview as to how CIL operates in Mid Suffolk.

 

CIL IN HAUGHLEY - NEIGHBOURHOOD CIL

A portion of the CIL received by Mid Suffolk is passed to the parish or town council where development is taking place. This will be 15% without a Neighbourhood Plan in place or 25% if the parish has a Neighbourhood Plan in place. The Haughley Neighbourhood Development Plan (NHP) was passed at referendum on 24 October 2019.

Haughley Parish Council will need to decide how to spend this part of the levy and will be mindful that it has a duty to spend CIL income on providing, improving, replacing, operating or maintaining infrastructure that supports the development of the parish council area or anything else concerned with addressing the demands that development places on the area. The CIL Regulations 2010 as amended provide for the parish council to spend the CIL income they receive from the District on either:

The provision, improvement, replacement, operation or maintenance of infrastructure;

or

Anything else that is concerned with addressing the demands that development places on an area.

 

Annual Financial Reports on CIL for each parish (or town council) receiving CIL detailing how the money has been spent must be published on the council's own websites. Copies are also submitted to Mid Suffolk District Council and added to their database detailing how all CIL monies have been allocated.

Please view the files below for details of monies received and spent by Haughley Parish Council on behalf of the community of Haughley.

CIL expenditure Year end 2023	CIL expenditure Year End 2022	CIL expenditure Year end 2021

PARISH INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT PLAN

With reference to the Haughley NHP and Mid Suffolk's requirements, the Parish Council has produced a Parish Infrastructure Investment Plan (PIIP) which will initially inform the Parish Council’s spending decisions. To view the PIIP adopted by the Parish Council and submitted to Mid Suffolk please click here.

For details of the Parish Council's adopted CIL Grant Awarding Policy along with details on how to apply for CIL Funding from the CIL Neighborhood Pot please use the relevant links below:

CIL Grant Awarding Policy

Application Form for CIL Funding