9.1 The Community Infrastructure Levy CIL is a charge levied on development which is payable to the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead RBWM and is intended to be spent on infrastructure projects across the RBWM administrative area that help address the demands placed on it resulting from growth This might include for example spending on new transport infrastructure health and educational facilities open spaces and sports facilities
9.2 A portion of CIL is payable to Cookham Parish Council for spending on local projects in the Neighbourhood Plan area. When the Neighbourhood Plan is made the Parish Council will receive 25% of all CIL monies paid to RBWM in respect of qualifying development within the Neighbourhood Plan area. In regard to what this money can be spent on, the RCIL Regulations (2019) (at para 59C) state:
“A local council must use CIL receipts passed to it… to support the development of the local council’s area, or any part of that area, by funding:”
- 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.“
9.3 The RBWM CIL Charging Schedule was approved in August 2016 and took effect on 1 September 2016. All applications for development that are above the necessary thresholds will be subject to this charging schedule, or any subsequent updates to it. Payment is linked to an instalments policy, related to the scale and commencement of development.
9.4 Ideas for the spending of CIL receipts on projects in the Parish include, but are not limited to, those identified in Appendix 8 of the Neighbourhood Plan. The Parish Council will continue to review projects and ideas over time, and which may include new projects not contained in the Plan but which are considered appropriate to help deliver improvements to infrastructure and services in the Parish.
9.5 RBWM has published a Planning Contributions and Developer Contributions SPD which outlines the scope and range of infrastructure towards which the Borough may seek contributions from developers and landowners in order to make development acceptable in planning terms.
9.6 Notwithstanding the defined period of the Neighbourhood Plan to 2038, it is recognised that, with ongoing changes to national policy and subsequent reviews of the Local Plan likely, the Neighbourhood Plan will need to be reviewed periodically. This will enable the Neighbourhood Plan to remain ‘current’ and in conformity with the Local Plan and National Planning Policy Framework.
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