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Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy Fund

The Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy Fund was open in 2023 and 2025 to support community projects in non-parished areas of Cheltenham, which have an economic, social or environmental objective; deliver publicly accessible physical improvements and address the demands that development places on a local area, including contributing to carbon net zero. 

The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a charge which local authorities can place on developers to help fund infrastructure needed to support new development in their areas. The levy applies to most new buildings and charges are based on the size and type of new floorspace.

In areas with a parish council, these funds are passed directly to the parish council, but one of the legal responsibilities of the borough council is to collect and allocate CIL on behalf of the non-parished areas.

The funds collected from new developments as part of the normal planning process and are intended to support community projects that have a social, environmental or economic objective in areas where development has taken place, to address the demands that development places on a local area.

 

Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Fund projects funded in 2025

Neighbourhood CIL projects funded in round 2 - 2025
Organisation Project Amount allocated
Friends of Hatherley Park Replacement slide 1500
The Petersfield Partnership St Peters & The Moors Community Sports Hub 10,400
West Cheltenham Parochial Church Council Development of St Aidan's Garden 12,388
Cheltenham Sea Cadets Solar Panels Project 8000
Vision 21 Gloucestershire EcoHub 12,171
Friends of Elmfield Elmfield Paths and SuDS 5,000
Holy Apostles’ C of E Primary School HAPS Solar Panels 3,000
The Gloucestershire Everyman Theatre Company Limited Everyman Theatre Education Centre @ Grove Street – creative arts for all communities 11,519
Monkscroft Community Action Group Reimagining Spaces - Monkscroft 9,000
Naunton Area Residents' Asociation The Triangle Community Garden Improvement 2,060
10th Cheltenham (All Saints) Scoup Group Solar Panel Installation 9000
Cheltenham Paint Festival  Honeybourne Line street art murals to improve public realm £0
The Rock Spokes and Hope 5,000
Alliance for Equality Common Ground Cheltenham- multiuse community and young people space  13,000
The Playhouse Theatre Cheltenham Playhouse Capital Investment Scheme 9,500
Cheltenham Borough Council St Peters Square playground improvements 8,700
Cheltenham Borough Council Green space department Fiddlers Green playground improvements 9,200
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Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Fund projects funded in 2023

Neighbourhood CIL projects funded in round 1 - 2023
Organisation Project Amount granted

SPJARA (St Philip and St James Area Residents' Association)

Bath Road Utility Box Decoration

£1,000

Borough councillor Tony Oliver

Bournside Safe Crossing Campaign

£12,000

Friends of Sandford Parks (FOSP)

Safer Sandford

£13,000

Friends of Pittville

Sensory beds in Pittville Park

£1,000

Vision 21 Gloucestershire

Planet Cheltenham

£17,000

Benhall Residents' Association

Benhall Air Quality Survey

£3,500

Public Hearts Defibrillator Campaign

Public Hearts Defibrillator Campaign

£9,000

Hester's Way Partnership

Springbank Creative Youth Space

£12,000

Hesters Way Forum

Fiddlers Green Park Play Area Improvement Project

£12,000

Friends of King George V (KGV) Playing Field

KGV Perimeter Path Phase 1

£9855

Councillor Garth Barnes, Cheltenham Borough Council

Regent Street Outdoor Café Culture Project

£10000

Cheltenham Borough Council

Rowena Cade playground improvements

£10000

Fairview Community Association

Cheltenham Cricket Club Disability Ramp

£3,000

We Create Cheltenham CIC

Honeybourne Honey

£2,500

Cheltenham Paint Festival

Cheltenham Paint Festival

£7,500

Springbank Community Group CIC

Reroofing the Ron Smith Pavilion – Phase 1

£5,000

Total  

£128,355