Infrastructure Delivery Plan (Feb 2013) - Runnymede Borough Council

Chapter 15. Delivery
Governance Arrangements
15.1 The Council is committed to helping ensure that the necessary infrastructure is
delivered over the plan period to support the development forecasted to come forward,
and to deliver the Council’s spatial strategy. Governance arrangements to ensure that
this happens will be considered in detail and put in place prior to the adoption of the
Council’s Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) charging regime in April 2014.
15.2 It should be noted that the Council has substantial experience in this area, putting in
place and successfully operating systems to monitor and collect S106 money
generated through the Council’s tariff based system, as well as monies collected in line
with the Council’s Avoidance Strategy for the TBHSPA. Collected monies are
distributed to the relevant agencies to ensure that it is able to co-ordinate the delivery
of infrastructure with development as it comes forward.
15.3 Whatever governance arrangements are decided upon, the Council will ensure that
there are resources in place to ensure (amongst other things) that:
• Systems are put in place to collect and monitor CIL payments;
• Arrangements are put in place to ensure that collected CIL monies are
passed to relevant departments and organisations, to ensure that
infrastructure is delivered in a timely manner, as well as local communities
and neighbourhood forums;
• There is regular liaison with stakeholders to keep abreast of new
infrastructure projects which are proposed to come forward and to ensure that
the status of existing schemes identified in the IDP are known. Such
information will be used to keep the IDP a relevant and up to date document;
• The enforcement functions associated with non payment of CIL monies are
carried out; and,
• An annual progress report is prepared for consideration by the Planning
Committee and for inclusion in the Annual Monitoring Report (AMR). This will
detail how much CIL money has been collected annually, how the money has
been spent, the amount for admin expenses that has been collected etc (as
required under section 62 of the CIL regulations). It will be published on the
Council’s website.
Forging links with partners
15.4 The preparation of the IDP has helped strengthen relationships between the Council
and various agencies. It is considered that these relationships will help develop
structures to facilitate a different, more collaborative way of working with partners in the
future. As such, work on the IDP is considered to offer a platform for developing a
spatial planning approach and integrating the capital investment programmes of
various services with planning for new development. The relationships with partners
therefore need to be maintained and strengthened over the plan period so that such an
approach can be achieved.
15.5 In particular, it will be important to forge strong links with Surrey County Council and
the Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership to ensure a joined up approach is taken
in delivering essential infrastructure across the Borough.
15.6 Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP): The Enterprise M3 Local
Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is a public/private partnership set up to support and
sustain economic growth at a local level. The LEP operates within a network of existing
business support, provided by the private sector, the public sector, and a range of
membership and third sector bodies. The LEP works in partnership with these bodies. It
also works within a network of existing public sector funding and decision making, on
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