How we spend CIL/S106 contributions

Strategic CIL Funding Programme

The Council has chosen to spend the strategic CIL funding it has collected through an annual ‘CIL Funding Programme’ or CFP.

The CFP is a rolling programme of strategic infrastructure projects which the Council has agreed to fund (or to contribute to) with strategic CIL funding. The Council seeks to allocate monies to projects which can be implemented in the short-term (1 to 2 years of receiving the funding) to allow for a rolling programme of delivery.

The funding for each project is released at a suitable time in the project delivery, and is also subject to compliance with other conditions.

The Council prepared its first CIL Funding Programme in 2025, available below. Each year, updates on project delivery will be provided via the Council’s annual ‘Infrastructure Funding Statement’, found on How we spend strategic CIL funds webpage.

The 2025 CFP consists of eight strategic projects, with a total allocation of £5,350,592 strategic CIL funding. Bidding for funding was open between 18 March – 20 May 2025, and projects recommended for funding by the Developer Contributions Advisory Group were consulted on over August 2025. Taking public consultation feedback into account, the Corporate Management Committee authorised the allocation of strategic CIL funds to the recommended projects as part of the CFP on 16 October 2025.

Three further projects at St Peter’s Hospital, considered to be urgent, were then considered outside of the normal bidding process, in accordance with the Governance Arrangements, and two of these were then approved for funding as part of the CFP by the Corporate Management Committee on 21 October 2025.

The approved CFP, the public consultation outcomes, and the relevant committee reports can be found below: