Issue - meetings

The Council undertook its annual funding rounds for strategic and neighbourhood CIL between the 9 March 2026 and 17 May 2026. During this funding window 5 Strategic CIL bids and 15 Neighbourhood CIL bids were received.

In accordance with the Epsom and Ewell CIL Spending Protocol (March 2025), all bids received have been subject to an initial stage 1 assessment. Only the bids that passed the stage 1 assessment were then subject to a stage 2 assessment by the CIL Member Working Group.

Following this process 5 strategic CIL bids (totalling £4,258,000 of strategic CIL funding) and 8 neighbourhood CIL bids (totalling £668,871 of neighbourhood CIL funding) were recommended to receive funding by the CIL Member Working Group in June 2026.

Following consideration, the committee resolved with 6 votes for and 1 abstention to:

(1)        Approve and ratify the funding recommendations of the CIL Working Group for each of the bids set out in paragraph 4 of the report, subject to the deletion of the wording “to replace unsafe stepping stones” from the summary provided for Strategic Project 3 – New Footbridge across the Hogsmill River.