Repayment of S106 Contributions
Received: 3 October 2024
Dear Barnet Borough Council,I believe that councils are constantly bombarded by FOI requests, with questions relating to unspent/unexpended S106 monies, as various articles have been published in various newspapers and trade magazines over the last 7-10 years.I am also guilty of raising similar questions.I want to change this, I want to make a difference. Under the current structure, after 5-10 years, unspent/unexpended monies has to be returned to the party that paid (in most cases) and if councils are faced with this, intended plans don't happen and worthy causes fail. But, it does avoid the money falling into a black hole where the money can not be used by the council.How much money is sat in this black hole, one where the council can't use it but the developer doesn't know it's there. This is another pointless situation, with neither party benefitting.Imagine if the unspent/unexpended money was defined and returned to the developer/person that paid and that the receiving party made a contribution back to the council, towards solving the issue of homelessness within the borough?I would like to help. Would you be willing to engage further around this topic?Do you have an excel sheet of unexpended/unused/unspent s106 contributions as the particular clawback of 5/7/10 years has expired? Perhaps we could start there?
Outcome / Documents
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