S106 Form & Generic Planning Obligations
Request received 26 May 2026
1. Precedent / Template Section 106 Agreement - Please provide a copy of the council’s current precedent, template, or standard form Section 106 agreement used in connection with planning applications.
If multiple versions exist (e.g., residential, commercial, mixed use), please provide all versions held.
2. Generic Planning Obligations - If the council holds a precedent agreement that includes standard or generic planning obligations, please ensure these are included. For clarity, I am referring to obligations typically secured under S106, including but not limited to:
• Affordable housing
• Education contributions
• Health infrastructure
• Open space, parks, leisure and play provision
• Highways and transport improvements
• Community facilities
• Flooding, drainage and utilities
• Environmental and ecological mitigation
• Construction related obligations
• Financial contributions and monitoring fees
3. If no precedent agreement exists: Please provide copies of completed Section 106 agreements entered into by the council in the last six months that include any of the above categories of obligations.
Responded 25 June 2026
1. Information Not Held. The Council does not hold a standard S106 Agreement template. Individual Section 106 Agreements are created for specific bespoke arrangements. This information is therefore refused under Section 21 of the FOI Act 2000 – Information Not Held.
2. As Q1
Q3. A list of applications that have been decided within the 6 months with a S106 are as follows:
25/00393/FUM
19/01600/ESO
Copies of the s106 should be available on our public access page under the Documents tab for each relevant application. If however, a copy is not available please request that the document is made public to plservices@eastcambs.gov.uk.
The Council considers that the requested information falls within the Environmental Information Regulations (“EIR”), which relate to information on activities affecting or likely to affect the elements and factors of the environment.
In respect of those requests that were answered in full or partially and the total refused please take this as notice under FOIA, that we:
a) Consider the information as exempt from disclosure under the Act;
b) Claim exempt under sections of the Act:
Section 12(4)(a) – Information Not Held
c) State why the exemption applies:
Regulation 12 (4) a public authority may refuse to disclose information to the extent that
(a) it does not hold that information when an applicant’s request is received.