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Section 8 - How the CIL will be collected
Chelmsford City Council has established a CIL allocation process as outlined in paragraphs 4.7 – 4.11 of its Chelmsford City Council - Allocating and Spending CIL document, which invites expressions of interest from stakeholders (including ECC) for funding periodically, and which are subsequently approved by the City Council Cabinet or Full Council. Whilst ECC has an opportunity to bid for CIL monies, it still has no formal role in the allocation of CIL monies through this process. It has led to some difficulties in securing monies for infrastructure projects that ECC is required to deliver with any degree of certainty or when they may be required. ECC would welcome any governance arrangements that included a more formal role for the County Council in the CIL governance process, in particular regarding when CIL monies are made available for bids; the amount of funds made available to bid for and how any monies will be prioritised and apportioned to strategic projects. ECC would recommend that BBC keeps this in mind when identifying any governance arrangements for how CIL monies will be spent over and above the statutory requirements to parish councils and administration costs.