Details of CIL payments made to local councils (parish and town councils)
Implications for parish/town councils
If you are a Local Council, we'll automatically pass you 15% of CIL receipts that arise from development in your area.
Payments will be capped to £100 per Council Tax dwelling per year (index linked). A basic example (not indexed), a parish council with 500 dwellings, will not exceed £50,000 of CIL receipts per year.
In areas with a Neighbourhood Development Plan, we'll pass the relevant local councils 25% of CIL receipts, with no upper limit.
Payment periods
We'll make payments:
- from 1 April to 30 September to the PC by 28 October of that financial year
- from 1 October to 31 March to the PC by 28 April of the following financial year
If you choose not to receive CIL, you must notify us of this decision. In such cases we'll spend the CIL income on behalf of the local council, and in consultation with you.
CIL is paid in instalments over 2 months to 3 years, depending on the size of the development when building works start. Planning permissions can be valid for three years, so it may be a number of years before CIL payments are received.
Local Council CIL preparation
You may wish to think about the following before receiving CIL Payments:
- do you have effective reporting mechanisms to show how the PC will spend CIL?
- how will you decide what to spend CIL on?
- how will you engage with the community on how to spend CIL?
To make clear what you expect CIL money to be spent on, we would advise that you write a list of the infrastructure projects which the community sees as priorities for delivering and would like to see provided with CIL funds.