We use our Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) developer contributions to help to deliver infrastructure that supports the borough’s development, so promoting sustainable communities. This includes allocating the “strategic” portion of the CIL collected to projects through a 5-year infrastructure programme, the “SIP”, Strategic Infrastructure Programme. Bidding for the current SIP (covering the period 2023/24 to 202728) was open in autumn 2022.

Given the pending Local Government Re-organisation, with potential implications for spending CIL funding once RBBC ceases to exist as an entity, potentially from 1 April 2027 (12 months before the end of this current SIP), and the currently un-allocated strategic CIL funding likely to be available in 2025/26, a total of up to £500,000 will be made available for infrastructure project bids that would support the borough’s development.

Bids for this funding must be received in the month between 30 June and 30 July 2025, on the SIP(2) bidding form that will be made available on the Council’s website.

All bids will need to comply with the two strategic CIL legal screening criteria, being an  “infrastructure” project that “supports development of the borough”, and the two other SIP(2) screening criteria that the projects need at least £10,000 CIL funding and that they would be delivered in this SIP period (by 31 March 2028).

Bids that pass screening will then be assessed against the SIP(2) assessment criteria, with bids to be allocated needing to score at least 37 points in its assessment (see SIP(2) Executive report 23 March 2023).

Successful bids will be reported in the annual SIP update reports to Executive and in the Council’s published Annual Infrastructure Funding Statement. 

To submit a bid for strategic CIL funding in July 2025, use the bid form that will be provided on our website here

Contact the CIL Team to discuss potential submission or request advice on CIL funding.