Our policies, plans and strategies - Infrastructure Funding Statement

The Community Infrastructure Levy (Amendment) (No.2) (England) Regulations came into force on 1 September 2019. Under the regulations, Infrastructure Funding Statements (IFS) replace CIL Regulation 123 Lists as the mechanism through which infrastructure projects are identified.

The IFS is required to be published annually and provide a summary of all financial and non-financial developer contributions relating to S106s within the District. It will include a statement of infrastructure projects that the Council intends to, wholly or be partly funded by planning obligations. The Government has introduced a requirement for councils to prepare an annual Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) which is to be published by 31 December each year and thereafter, at least annually. 

Going forward, it is intended to publish the Council’s IFS each year to provide a statement of the planning obligations received and spent/used for each preceding financial year. It is also a requirement of the IFS to report on the obligations not only secured and spent by the Council’s own services, but also obligations passed to external stakeholders, for example, the police and the health/CCGs.

The Government considers that the Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) is an important and useful tool for wider engagement, for example, with local communities, infrastructure providers, and that it can inform Statements of Common Ground. It is intended to add transparency, about how contributions have been used to fund infrastructure improvements and make spending on infrastructure improvements more accountable too.

Local authorities can also report this information in authority monitoring reports but the authority monitoring report is not a substitute for the Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS)

• Infrastructure Funding Statements (IFS)