Infrastructure funding statement 2022 - 2023

1. Introduction
2. Section 106 (Planning Obligations) Report

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 2022 – 31 March 2023.

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 2022/23 £1,904,045.48 of which £528,811.08 (Parsons Chain), £341,383 (Stourport Road, Bewdley), £32,866.40 (Husum Way), £1,000,985 (Stourport High School)
• Total money received through planning obligations (whenever agreed) in 2022/23 £1,150,139.07 (including sums received for monitoring in relation to the delivery of section 106 obligations).
• Total money, received through planning obligations (whenever agreed), spent in 2022/23 £311,290.43 (“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 2022/23 (excluding “commuted sums” for longer term maintenance) £1,585,891.25 (‘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 2022/23 as “commuted sums” for longer term maintenance £40,639.00.

Non-monetary contributions

• Total number of affordable housing units to be provided through planning obligations agreed in 2022/23: 102
• Total number of affordable housing units which were provided through planning obligations (whenever agreed) in 2022/23: 251 (Berrington Court, Cotswold Close, Kimberlee Avenue Cookley, Lea Castle and Churchfields).

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 2022/23, and the amount of money, received through planning obligations, spent on each item:

Total spent in 2022/2023 £311,290.43