Regulation 123 of the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Regulations historically provided for a CIL charging authority (which in Oxford is the City Council) to publish a list of infrastructure that will be, or may be, wholly or partly funded by CIL.
CIL Regulation 123 also restricted the use of Section 106 Planning Obligations for infrastructure that will be funded in whole or in part by the CIL. This was to ensure no duplication or double charging occurred towards the same infrastructure project.
The inclusion of a specific project ortype of infrastructure project on the Regulation 123 list did not constitute a commitment on behalf ofthe City Council to fund the project (eitherin whole or in part).
The projects on the Infrastructure List are divided into two categories:
- Strategic Infrastructure - This serves a city-wide purpose, benefits and is required by generally more than one development and is likely to require pooled contributions for delivery. Larger developments (more than 120 dwellings or 12,500m2) may be required to provide some of this infrastructure, or some part of it, as a direct site specific impact mitigation funded through a planning obligation, where necessary in order to directly mitigate the impacts of development such that planning permission can be granted.
- Neighbourhood level infrastructure - This is simply a list of infrastructure that could potentially be funded through the neighbourhood portion of CIL
The purpose of dividing the projects in this way is to signal that it may be appropriate to focus the mainbulk of CIL expenditure in the initial years on strategic projects only. Projects in the table headed neighbourhood level infrastructure could be candidates for funding from the ‘neighbourhood proportion’ of CIL receipts, currently set at 15% of CIL receipts within the relevant area, although there is no restriction on the types of infrastructure that this proportion of CIL can be spent on.
For ease of reference, the projects have been grouped into categories of infrastructure, but this does not signify any particular order of preference.
| Type of strategic infrastructure |
Project title |
|---|---|
| Transport | Oxford station redevelopment |
| Transport | Queen Street Pedestrianisation |
| Transport | Improvement of Northern city centre radials. Improvement for St Giles/ Magdalen St/ Broad St/George Street including improved environment for cyclists and pedestrians and junction improvements. Improvements to city centre bus and passenger waiting facilities. |
| Transport | Relocation of coach parking from Oxpens |
| Transport | Redbridge Park and Ride capacity improvements |
| Transport | Seacourt Park and Ride expansion/improvements |
| Transport | Gloucester Green Bus Terminal Phase I & II |
| Transport | Parking information system |
| Transport | Jackdaw Lane pedestrian and cycle bridge |
| Transport | B4495 Corridor Improvements (Hollow Way / Between Towns Road / Donnington Bridge) |
| Transport | District Centre Improvements (Cowley Centre / Blackbird Leys / Headington / St Clement's / Summertown |
| Transport | Public transport improvements for access to Headington, as part of the Eastern Arc strategy |
| Transport | City Centre Corridor Improvements (West - Hythe Bridge Street / Oxpens Road / George Street / New Road /Park End Street |
| Transport | Gloucester Green improvements to public space and landscaping |
| Transport | Freight consolidation centre |
| Transport | Cycle Hire Stations |
| Education | Early years provision for the city |
| Education | Extensions to existing primary schools up to 0.5FE |
| Education | Extensions to existing secondary schools |
| Education | Extensions to special needs provision |
| Community services | Increase capacity at libraries and Museum Resource Centre |
| Community services | Other Health and wellbeing facilities |
| Community services | Improvements to existing community facilities including youth support and adult learning |
| Community services | Provision of additional burial space |
| Environmental | Recycling facilities and capacity improvements to existing Household Waste Recycling Centres |
| Environmental | Oxford Flood Defence Measures (Western Conveyance Scheme) |
