Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

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Dear Luke Chafer

Freedom of information request - FOI/9790

Subject: FOI - Affordable housing contribution usage

Your request is being considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days, subject to the application of
any exemptions. Where consideration is being given to exemptions the 20
working day timescale may be extended to a period considered reasonable
depending on the nature and circumstances of your request. In such cases
you will be notified and, where possible, a revised time-scale will be
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Kind Regard

Information Management Team

Croydon Digital Services

Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

7th Floor, Zone B

Bernard Weatherill House

8 Mint Walk

Croydon CR0 1EA

Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[email address]

Dear Luke Chafer

Request FOI/9790

Further to your request received on 19/04/2024, I confirm that the Council
has now considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Specifically, you have requested the following information:

- I would like to know how much money the council has collected in
affordable housing contributions under section 106 or community
infrastructure levies in the years: 2023,2022,2021,2020.
- I would like to know for the same years how much of the money was spent.
- I would also like a list of the projects that the money was spent on

Please find a table below highlighting Section 106 Affordable Housing
contributions received between 2020 and 2023.

Planning Site Contribution Contribution Amount Date
application amount received received
16/05299/FUL 113 -121 Affordable £550,000.00 £500,000.00 10/08/2020
Portland Housing
Place, South
Norwood
17/06263/FUL 19-23 Affordable £237,250.00 £237,250.00 22/09/2022
Clifford Housing
Road, South
Norwood,
SE25 5JJ

There were no receipts for Affordable Housing contributions in 2021 and
2023.

This information is provided on our website and is therefore exempt from
Croydon Council under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
‘Information reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means’.
Section 21 is an absolute exemption and therefore does not require the
public interests balancing test to be applied.   Details of Section 106
funding allocated for Affordable Housing projects can be found via our
public tracker via the following link:
[1]s106-approved-expenditure-listing-public-tracker-q4-2023-24.xls
(live.com)

The Council publishes Access to Information requests and responses on its
online Disclosure Log. (Any request included within this log will be
anonymised appropriately)

To view the Council’s Disclosure Log, please visit our website available
here:

[2]The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act | Croydon Council
(disclosure-log.co.uk)

If you are dissatisfied with the way the Council has handled your request
under the Freedom of Information Act you may ask for an internal review.
This should be submitted to us within 40 working days of this response.
You can do this by outlining the details of your complaint by:

Email:        [3][email address]

Writing:     Information Team

London Borough of Croydon

Bernard Weatherill House

Floor 7 - Zone B

                  8 Mint Walk

Croydon, CR0 1EA

Any requests received after the 40 working day time limit will be
considered only at the discretion of the council.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely,

Information Team

Croydon Digital Services

Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

Bernard Wetherill House,

Mint Walk,

Croydon,

CR0 1EA

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