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Infrastructure funding statement 2023 - 2024

Last updated December 2024

1. Introduction

1.1 This report provides information on the monetary (and non-monetary) contributions sought and received from developers for the provision of infrastructure to support development in Wyre Forest, and the subsequent use of those contributions by Wyre Forest District Council. The report covers the financial year 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024.

1.2. Wyre Forest seeks developer contributions through Section 106 agreements (also known as “planning obligations”) in line with the Adopted Wyre Forest Planning Obligations Supplementary Planning Documents.

1.3. The District Council has not adopted a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) tariff for development

Planning obligations

1.4. Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 enables a local planning authority to enter into a negotiated agreement – a planning obligation - to mitigate the impact of a specific development, to make it acceptable in planning terms. The planning obligation might, for example, require the provision or contribution to a new or improved road, school, or local green infrastructure. Local planning authorities can also seek planning obligations to secure a proportion of affordable housing from residential developments.

2. Section 106 (Planning obligations) report

2.1 Headline figures

Monetary contributions

  • Total money to be provided through planning obligations agreed in 2023/24 £4,580,214.84 of which:
    • £3,083,057 Pearl Lane, Stourport
    • £868,917 Habberley Road, Kidderminster
    • £305,884 Kidderminster Road, Bewdley
    • £163,303 Station Drive, Blakedown
    • £ 74,158 Habberley Road, Bewdley
    • £42,627.84 The Grange, Sutton Park Road, Kidderminster
    • £42,268 Stourport Road, Bewdley
  • Total money received through planning obligations (whenever agreed) in 2023/24 £497,024.16 (including sums received for monitoring in relation to the delivery of section 106 obligations).
  • Total money, received through planning obligations (whenever agreed), spent in 2023/24 £1,029,492.60 (“spent” includes sums transferred to an external organisation to spend but does not include sums held internally, whether allocated or otherwise to a specific infrastructure project or type. Total money spent includes sums spent on monitoring the delivery of section 106 obligations).
  • Total money, received through planning obligations (whenever agreed), retained at the end of 2023/24 (excluding “commuted sums” for longer term maintenance) £920,578.98 (‘retained’ refers to section 106 sums remaining unspent including sums both ‘allocated’ and ‘unallocated’).
  • Total money, received through planning obligations (whenever agreed), retained at the end of 2023/24 as “commuted sums” for longer term maintenance £173,482.83.

Non-monetary contributions

  • Total number of affordable housing units to be provided through planning obligations agreed in 2023/24: 156
  • Total number of affordable housing units which were provided through planning obligations (whenever agreed) in 2023/24: 90

2.2 Section 106 infrastructure expenditure in 2022/23

Summary details of the items of infrastructure on which money received through planning obligations (whenever received) has been spent in 2023/24, and the amount of money, received through planning obligations, spent on each item:

SCHEME

DETAILS

EXPENDITURE 2023/24 (£)

Heronswood Road - Commuted Sum

Maintenance of land Heronswood Road.

320.00

Timber Lane/Mill Road Stourport-on-Severn (Mitton Marsh)

For open space - management

9,910.27

Churchfields, Kidderminster (Hurcott Road)

Air Quality

1,410.00

Bellway re Churchfields

Public Open Space

1,828.50

108-109 Bewdley Hill, Kidderminster

To be spent on Brintons Park

15,759.51

Sutton Arms, Kidderminster

Public Open Space Contribution

15,640.80

Redcross House, Park Street, Kidderminster

Public Open Space Contribution

1,585.22

Aldi Car Park - Commuted Sum

Maintenance, repair and improvement of car parks

10,000.00

Blackwell Street, Kidderminster

Public Open Space Contribution - Brinton Park

8,400.00

Miller Homes, Stourbridge Road, Kidderminster

Broadwaters and Hurcott

6,951.07

Blakebrook School, Kidderminster

Biodiversity contribution and public open space contribution

5,150.00

Lea Castle

Health Services

8,291.47

Former Stourminster School

POS, Health, Education and Wet Woodland Contribution, Wet Woodland Transfer

2,160.32

Chichester Caravans

Public Open Space Contribution

6,391.44

Victoria Carpets (Viaduct Close)

Public Open Space Contribution

18,428.04

S.106 Stourport High School / Coniston Crescent

Off Site Sports Contribution

910,612.02

Bewdley Bridge

Biodiversity Contribution

476.07

The Grange, Sutton Park Road

Health Contribution, Highways Contribution, Public Open Space Contribution

6,177.87

Total spent in 2023/2024 £1,029,492.60

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