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SECTION 106 MONITORING

Meeting: 12/09/2017 - Planning Committee (Item 198)

198 SECTION 106 MONITORING REPORT (REPORT NO.58) pdf icon PDF 274 KB

To receive the report of the Director of Regeneration and Environment providing an update on the monitoring of Section 106 Agreements (S106) and progress on Section 106 matters.

(Report No.58)

 

 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

RECEIVED the report of the Director of Regeneration and Environment providing an update on the monitoring of Section 106 Agreements (S106) and progress on S106 matters during the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017.

 

1.    The report was presented by Isha Ahmed and Robert Davy (Principal Planning Officers).

2.    Table 2 of the report (page 4) highlighted the fact that in the last financial year, the Council had spent over £4m in Section 106 monies, with the highest amount being towards affordable housing.

3.    In terms of monies received, the department received just under £2.2m for 2016/17 with affordable housing allocated £1.5m. Table 3 (page 5) shows the breakdown of monies by use.

4.    Members debate and questions responded to by officers including the following:

a.    The management fees of £113,522 shown on table 3 (page 5) was a figure negotiated by officers with developers (up to 5%) for monitoring purposes.

b.    Each Section 106 agreement contained certain triggers that would determine when monies can be released.

c.    There were no guarantees that that all of the schemes that the Council have agreed monies for, will come forward.

d.    Section 106 monies are never taken for granted until actual amounts are received. Then each Council department will obtain agreements to spend the money.

e.    With regards to the closing balance of £6.5m, approximately £4.5m has been earmarked for projects i.e. Cycle Enfield.

f.     Many of the S106 agreements contain clauses requiring spending of the contributions within a 5 or 10 year time frame. There is around £200k of monies that is approaching expiry and departments were working hard to complete schemes before expiry.

g.    Request that the red areas shown on the spreadsheets highlighting schemes, ever concerned officers, then members would like each of the concerned schemes to be reported separately.

h.    If any Members had any concerns with any of the S106 schemes, then they could contact Isha Ahmed/Robert Davy (Principal Planning Officers) for further information.

 

 

AGREED that Planning Committee noted the contents of this report and its Appended reports.