FOI request (FOIR-720176575)

Developer contributions

Requested Wed 04 June 2025
Responded Wed 25 June 2025

I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

1. Are you charging community infrastructure levy (CIL)? If yes, how much were the agreed/secured CIL and mayoral CIL developer contributions (in £) for 2018-19, 2023-24 and 2024-25?

2. What was the nominal value (in £) of agreed/secured developer contributions in 2018-19, 2023-24 and 2024-25 made in regard to section 106 planning obligations?

3. What were the values (in £) for those developer contributions in each planning obligation category in 2018-19, 2023-24 and 2024-25? Please provide a breakdown (in £) for each category identified by the LGA. That is Affordable housing, Bonds, Community facilities, Digital infrastructure, Education, Flood and water management, Green infrastructure, Health, Highways, Land, Open space and leisure, Section 106 monitoring charges, Transport and travel, or Other. Or a similar categorisation method that you use.

4. What were the non-monetary contributions secured through S106 agreements during 2018-19, 2023-24 and 2024-25, in terms of total number of affordable housing units and number of school places that will be provided?

5. How many affordable homes were delivered in 2018-19, 2023-24 and 2024-25, and how many of those were categorised as social rent, affordable rent, intermediate rent, shared ownership, affordable home ownership, and other? How many in each category were delivered through S106 agreements?

Please provide such data electronically, ideally as an Excel spreadsheet.

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Response

1. No, not applicable.

2.

2018-19 – S106 contributions agreed for Hastings Borough Council (HBC) £233,686.

2023-24 - Refer to Table B of Infrastructure Funding Statement for 2023-24 available online at:

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/planning/AnnualInfrastructureFundingStatement/

2024-25 information is not yet fully processed and will be available in the IFS due for publication in December 2025.

3. See (2) and use our planning application search facility to view the legal agreements via the documents tab:

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/planning/searching/

The 2018-19 legal agreements with HBC contributions came from applications HS/FA/17/00168, HS/FA/17/00798, HS/FA/17/01040, HS/FA/17/01064, HS/FA/18/00143, HS/FA/18/00291, HS/OA/15/00168, and HS/OA/16/00788.

4. 2018-19 - Use our planning application search facility:

https://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/

For S106 details for 2018-19 legal agreements from applications HS/FA/17/00168, HS/FA/17/00798, HS/FA/17/01040, HS/FA/17/01064, HS/FA/18/00143, HS/FA/18/00291, HS/OA/15/00168, and HS/OA/16/00788.

Refer to Table I of Infrastructure Funding Statement for 23-24 available online:

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/planning/AnnualInfrastructureFundingStatement/

2024-25 information is not yet fully processed and will be available in the IFS due for publication in December 2025.

5. Refer to tables 7 and 8 of the Local Plan Monitoring Report (LPMR) for 2023-2024 and accompanying text for affordable completions, tenure type and site details. 2018-19 completion data is included in table 8 too. The LMPR is available online:

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/planning/policy/localplanmonitoring/

2018-2019 – Planning Policy completed 58 affordable dwellings at Former Summerfields Business Centre, Bohemia Road and Winchester House, Pevensey Road. Of these, 16 were shared ownership and 16 affordable rent at the Bohemia Road site and the remainder were AR. Both these were developed in their entirety as affordable housing.

All documents including S106 where applicable for the developments mentioned in the reports can be viewed online via the planning application search facility using either application number of site name to search Completion and breakdown data is not yet finalised for 2024-2025 and will be available in the next LPMR when published.