If you have any queries regarding CIL please contact us on the following:
CIL.Lewes@Lewes-Eastbourne.gov.uk for Lewes related CIL enquiries
CIL@Lewes-Eastbourne.gov.uk for Eastbourne related CIL enquiries
Latest News – Winter 2022
As you will be aware, the CIL Expressions of Interest Round for Lewes District Council opened on Monday 24 January 2022 and closed on the 21 February 2022.
Since February 2022, projects that qualified to make a formal bid were invited to do so in March 2022. These bids were considered by the Council through its CIL spending process and recommendations for spending from the Council’s Strategic, Local, Community and Small Project CIL Pots were taken to Cabinet in July 2022. Further details can be found in the Cabinet Agenda from 7 July 2022 and the minutes of the meeting.
The Council is now working with the successful bidders to pass over CIL receipts as part of the delivery of infrastructure projects. A further Expression of Interest Round for Lewes District Council is expected to open in the spring 2023.
CIL and S106 Annual Reporting
Lewes and Eastbourne will publish an annual report by the 31st December each year which includes the total receipts and expenditure for the financial year, and a summary of the items of infrastructure to which CIL has been applied. Until 2019, details of CIL monitoring have been published in both Eastbourne and Lewes Councils' Authority Monitoring Report (AMR). From 2020, both Councils are required to prepare an annual Infrastructure Funding Statement to include:
- the Infrastructure List: a statement of the infrastructure projects or type of infrastructure which may be wholly or partly funded by CIL. This will replace the Regulation 123 list.
- the CIL Report
- the Section 106 Report
The two authorities have different governance arrangements for how the CIL Revenue is distributed, as shown below, and subsequently spent. This is partly due to the fact that Lewes is fully parished, where Eastbourne does not have any parishes.
The CIL Revenue for Lewes is apportioned twice. Firstly 15% (or 25% with an adopted Neighbourhood Plan) is passed to the relevant parish or town council. 5% is set aside for the purpose of administering the implementation of CIL. Secondly, the remaining CIL Revenue is broken down into three different pots:
- 70% to the strategic pot;
- 20% to the local pot primarily for towns and parishes to deliver their local projects; and
- 10% to the community pot, of which 1% is allocated to small projects
The CIL Revenue for Eastbourne is distributed into three separate funds:
- 5% to an administration fund;
- 15% to a neighbourhood fund; and
- 80% to a county council and other infrastructure providers fund.
Currently there are not sufficient funds held by Eastbourne Borough Council which justify opening the pots for spending. However, this will be monitored regularly and an update to the website will be made once a decision has been made to open an Expression of Interest Round for Eastbourne CIL.
We have produced a variety of CIL Bidding and Spending guidance documents to help you understand the process and framework for how CIL funding will be governed, which can be found below in the Downloads section. The Downloads section also provides Neighbourhood CIL Reports from Town and Parish Councils that received the neighbourhood portion of CIL.
