Issue - meetings
Response to Petition - Upgrading of Pavements & Grass Verges In Sudbury Using Available CIL Funding
Meeting: 16/10/2017 - Highways Committee (Item 8)
PDF 96 KBThe purpose of this report is to provide an update on the response to a petition submitted by Paul Lorber on behalf of residents in the Sudbury ward requesting the use of CIL funds to upgrade pavements and grass verges.
Decision:
RESOLVED that:
(i) The petition and contents of the Officer report be noted; and
(ii) The lead petitioner would be reminded that they could apply for Neighbourhood CIL funds by 1 December 2017 or informed that they could request to speak on the identification and agreement of strategic infrastructure priorities as part of the budget setting process in February 2018.
Minutes:
Nkechi Okeke-Aru (the Council’s Principal Development Funds Officer) introduced the item and gave a brief overview of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding, and the process for its allocation. She outlined that the submitted petition had requested funding for Highways related matters, but CIL funding was ultimately not something that the Highways Committee itself could agree to allocate. She explained that the Strategic CIL funding would be approved by Cabinet in February 2018 as part of the Council’s budget setting process, and that residents could apply for Neighbourhood CIL funds via the Council’s website before 1 December 2017. The Committee heard that the petition could be used as evidence to support the application.
RESOLVED that:
(i) The petition and contents of the Officer report be noted; and
(ii) The lead petitioner would be reminded that they could apply for Neighbourhood CIL funds by 1 December 2017 or informed that they could request to speak on the identification and agreement of strategic infrastructure priorities as part of the budget setting process in February 2018.