Community Infrastructure Levy information
Pages in Community Infrastructure Levy information
- 1. What is CIL?
- 2. Guidance for Applicants (CIL)
- 3. CIL Charging Schedule
- 4. Spending CIL Funds
- 5. You are here: Strategic Fund
- 6. Local Fund
5. Strategic Fund
What is the Strategic Fund?
The majority of the CIL money the Council collects from developments in the borough is pooled together to spend on large, more costly infrastructure projects across the borough. This is known as the Strategic Fund.
The Strategic CIL Fund must be used to fund the provision, improvement, replacement, operation or maintenance of infrastructure to support development of the borough.
The types of infrastructure which the Strategic Fund can be spent on are set out in the Council’s "Infrastructure List" in its Annual Infrastructure Funding Statement:
- Highways and transport including improvements to:
- The strategic road network
- The local road network
- Public transport, including bus shelters and improved services
- "Active transport" pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure - including segregated cycle and footpath routes, and cycle storage facilities
- Off-street parking including public car parks
- Electric car charging points: on or off-street
- Education facilities and infrastructure at:
- Secondary schools
- Post-16 education (schools and colleges)
- State-funded early years
- Healthcare:
- Medical centres and GPs practices buildings
- Acute care, including hospitals
- Emergency services facilities
- Community and cultural facilities:
- Community halls or hubs or wellbeing centres
- Scouts and Guides meeting facilities
- Libraries
- Community theatres and galleries
- Digital Infrastructure
- Security and anti-crime infrastructure including CCTV and street lighting
- Public realm improvements, place making and wayfinding or signposting
- Leisure centres
- Open space, green infrastructure, sports and recreation including:
- Outdoor sport and recreation, including football and other sports pitches
- Improvements to parks and open spaces, including paths, boundary treatment, lighting and security, shelters
- Outdoor gyms
- Children and young people's play and recreation areas
- Pavilion improvements
- Allotments
- Tree planting and forestation
- Biodiversity and habitat protection and enhancement
- Cemeteries and crematoria
- Sustainability and climate change initiatives
- Flood risk reduction schemes
- Waste and recycling collection and management facilities
The Reigate & Banstead Borough Council 'SIP'
The Council has chosen to spend the 'strategic CIL funding it has collected through a "Strategic Infrastructure Programme" or "SIP".
SIP is a five-year programme of infrastructure projects which the Council has agreed to fund (or to contribute to) with strategic CIL funding.
The funding for each project is released at a suitable time in the project delivery, and is also subject to compliance with other conditions.
For further information on the SIP, including links to relevant Committee reports, please see the Council’s annual “ Infrastructure Funding Statement”
The Council’s second SIP sets out how strategic CIL funding will be spent during the period 2023-2027.
Bids were invited for the Council’s second Strategic Infrastructure Programme (SIP) in August 2022 and September 2022.
The programme of 51 projects was selected from the 75 bids received, and will guide how strategic CIL funding will be spent in the period 2023-2027. This was agreed by the Council’s Executive on 23 March 2023, and is subject to annual review and update presented to the Executive each June.
July 2025 Bidding and Ad Hoc allocations
The 2025 SIP(2) Review identified a total of £500,000 of strategic CIL funding that the Council's Executive agreed to be made available to help to fund the delivery of infrastructure projects within the current SIP period.
Bidding for a portion of this funding was open between 30 June and 30 July 2025. Project bidders were informed whether their bid was successful or not in September 2025.
Projects to receive this strategic CIL funding will be reported in the SIP Review and Update report to Executive in June 2026, and in the annual Infrastructure Funding Statement for the 2025 financial year (published in December 2026). Find a summary of the projects allocated funding below:
| Project Ref | Project Name | Project location | Bidding organisation | Amount of CIL funding to offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIP(2)AH2025-02 | To fund the improvement of Salfords Village Hall, consisting of repairs to the side and flat roofs, renovation of wooden floor, and provision of an onsite disabled parking on the forecourt with provision of a dropped kerb. | Salfords Village Hall, 5 Honeycrock Lane, Salfords, Surrey, RH1 5DG | Salfords and Sidlow Parish Council | £48,454.00 |
| SIP(2)AH2025-06 | To contribute to the purchase of the Garibaldi Community Pub to enable its continued use as a community pub | Garibaldi Community Pub, 29 Mill Street, Redhill, RH1 6PA | Friends of the Garibaldi Community Interest Company | £24,100.00 |
| SIP(2)AH2025-09 | To contribute to the purchase and improvement of Meadvale Hall and scout hut for continued community uses | Meadvale Hall and 34th Reigate Scout Group Hut, Somerset Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 6LT | The Trustees of the 34th Reigate (Meadvale) Scout Group | £154,550.00 |
| SIP(2)AH2025-10 | To contribute to the provision and installation of new spectator pitch perimeter safety fencing | Merstham Football Social Club, Weldon Way Merstham RH1 3QB | Merstham Football Social Club Ltd | £57,350.00 |
| SIP(2)AH2025-12 | To contribute to the improvement of security, energy-efficiency and appearance of Innes Sports Pavilion, Court Lodge Fields, Horley, through the replacement of 20 timber windows with UPVC windows and landscape enhancements. | Innes Sports Pavilion, Court Lodge Fields, Horley | Horley Town Council | £14,819.00 |
| SIP(2)AH2025-13 | To fund provision and installation of outdoor gym equipment at Innes Sports Pavilion, Court Lodge | Innes Sports Pavilion, Court Lodge Fields, Horley | Horley Town Council | £19,097.00 |
| SIP(2)AH2025-17 | To fund provision and installation of outdoor gym equipment at Michael Crescent Park | Michael Crescent Park, Horley | Horley Town Council | £19,097.00 |
| SIP(2)AH2025-20 | To contribute to accessibility improvements at Horley Health Hub, specifically improvements to the car park (marked parking bays including 3 disabled parking bays and one electric charging point), pedestrian pathways, and construction of an accessible route to the Community Sensory Garden. | Alliance for Better Care, Horley Health Hub, Beechcroft, 120 Victoria Road, Horley, RH6 7BL | Alliance for Better Care CIC | £25,377.08 |
| SIP(2)AH2025-22 | To fund pond clearance including felling of overgrown willow tree, correction of outflow/inflow of main pond to maintain water level to the holding pond south of Carrington School to reduce flow to Redhill Brook thereby reducing flood risk to Redhill town centre and improve biodiversity, and to provide outdoor environmental learning facilities including interpretation / information board, cameras, electronic weather station, and installing a boardwalk and two dipping platforms to main pond to facilitate access to the pond. | Redhill Brook area, Noke Drive, Redhill, RH1 4AD | Carrington School | £86,124.00 |
| SIP(2)AH2025-24 | To fund the improvement of a refuge by provision and fitting of a new kitchen and replacement vinyl flooring | Redacted for confidentiality - within east Surrey (location provided) supporting R&B Borough | Redacted - confidential - Refuge | £19,962.00 |
| SIP(2)AH2025-25 | To fund the refurbishment of two Pathfinder Scouts Halls in Horley consisting of replacement of all external windows to both Baden Drive and Bay Close Halls, and upgrading of roof guttering, creation of two soakaways to reduce car park flooding, and internal refurbishment of upstairs community meeting room at Bay Close Scout Hall. | Two locations both managed by the "Horley Pathfinder" scout group: Pathfinder Scouts Hall, Baden Drive, Horley, RH6 8SD and Bay Close Scout Hall, Horley, RH6 8LF |
Pathfinder Horley Scout Group | £31,000.00 |