Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy (NCIL) - How can NCIL be used?

The main guiding principle of using NCIL, is that it must be linked to growth. This can mean that it is either used in a way which supports existing growth, such as providing new amenities for increased populations, or allows for new growth in an area. 

It can be difficult to define growth as a term, so we break it down into a series of questions where a project should generally meet at least one to be deemed linked to growth:

Does the suggested project:

• Increase or improve access to space where there are more people in the local area (eg from new housing or retail)?
• Improve your community ahead of new developments happening locally?
• Develop new activities and projects to serve a wider number of local residents?
• Mitigate an issue caused by recent local development (such as new homes or shops)?
• Ensure that a particular community is not left out of the benefits of local growth and expansion (eg with skills or overcoming barriers)?
• Improve access to areas where growth and opportunity have increased from other parts of the city (eg transport to jobs or facilities)?
• Improve accessibility where existing local space or assets will be made usable by more people locally (even without new resident growth)?
• Improving the opportunities of individuals to access the benefits presented by local growth?