Section 106 Funds
Case reference FOI2025/00433
Received 27 June 2025
Published 29 July 2025
Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am writing to politely request details of you Councils Section 106 spending.
Specifically, please could you provide the following details for each of the last 5 years:
* The total amount of unspent S106 funding
* The number of transport schemes funded by S106 in each financial year and the name of the corresponding schemes.
* The amount of S106 funding allocated to specific transport schemes during each financial year.
* Deadline for expenditure of S106 funds
* The amount of funds returned to developers due to expiry or inaction
* The amount of unspent funding at the end of each financial year which had been allocated to a transport scheme.
* The amount of S106 funding allocated specifically to sustainable transport [mobility solutions] schemes in each financial year and the name of the corresponding schemes.
* The amount of S106 funding upsent specifically allocated to sustainable transport schemes [mobility solutions] in each financial year.
Response
This information is publicly available.
Developer contributions from Section 106 agreements are tracked in the annual Infrastructure Funding Statements (IFS), providing a summary of Planning Obligations secured by the Council from new developments towards infrastructure, over a particular period (1April- 31March).
All IFS reports are published on the TWBC website.
https://tunbridgewells.gov.uk/planning/reporting-our-developer-contributions
These reports were published from 2019 onwards and show the contributions that have been received and spent in each financial year.
You can view all S106 financial contributions that have been agreed, held, received and spent during the reporting financial year.
S106 contributions are often very specific in their purpose and can therefore only be spent on that purpose or project. All S106 funding held indicates a planning application reference number, all planning applications can be view online through Search planning applications. The S106, can be found under the documents tab, indicating the purpose for which the contribution has been collected and the expiry terms for use of the contribution.
Documents
This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.