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DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST RELATING TO THIS ITEM:
 
None
 

RESOLVED:
 
That Cabinet:
 
1.   
Noted all the responses received regarding the consultation on
spending the Round?2 Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy,
as set out in Appendix?A to the report.

2.   
Approved the spending of Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure
Levy on the Round?2 projects listed in Table?3 of the report.
 

Reasons for decision

 
The collection and
spending of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), including
Neighbourhood CIL (NCIL), was governed by the Planning Act?2008 and
associated Regulations. Government guidance on CIL and NCIL was
also provided through Planning Practice Guidance (PPG).
 
The Regulations
enabled the Council to set aside 15% of CIL receipts (25% in areas
with an adopted Neighbourhood Plan) to support the development of
the relevant area by funding either:

(a) the provision, improvement, replacement, operation or
maintenance of infrastructure; or
(b) anything else concerned with addressing the demands that
development placed on an area.

This portion of CIL was known as NCIL.
The Council’s
adopted approach to spending NCIL, set out in its CIL Governance
document (2020), provided that NCIL should be spent on
neighbourhood projects, and that the neighbourhood proportion of
CIL receipts collected across the borough would be pooled (except
in Neighbourhood Forum Areas). The Governance document further
established that the borough would be divided into nine NCIL areas,
each requiring consultation, and that the Council would then
determine spending based on the project lists for each area, taking
consultation feedback into account.
The Council conducted
consultation in December?2025 and January?2026 to identify the NCIL
spending priorities for the nine NCIL areas. Consultation feedback
and suggested projects were reviewed, and a proposed package of
locally supported projects was developed, consistent with the
Haringey Deal and subject to spending approval. These proposals
were compatible with the Regulations and the CIL Governance
criteria, aligned with the Haringey Vision?2035, and were agreed
with relevant service delivery areas within the Council.
 
The governance process
for identifying projects in Neighbourhood Forum Areas differed
slightly. Projects within the borough’s two Forum Areas were
informed by consultation with the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum and
the Crouch End Neighbourhood Forum, with due regard given to the
same considerations applied elsewhere.
 

Alternative options considered:
 
Not spending NCIL
consistent with community priorities
This option was dismissed. The Council’s CIL Governance
document committed the authority to identifying NCIL spending
priorities through consultation with local communities and to
implementing them. The Round?2 consultation generated over 2,700
responses and produced a broad range of appropriate project types
and priorities for potential NCIL expenditure.

 
Delaying allocation of
NCIL
This option was also dismissed. Most projects funded under NCIL
Round?1 had been delivered, and further funding was available for
investment in new and improved infrastructure across Haringey.