What Can Section 106 Money Be Used For? A Council Officer's Guide
10 May 2026
What S106 contributions can and cannot fund — purpose restrictions, reallocation rules, and how to avoid spending money outside the agreement terms.
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Practical guides on S106 monitoring, IFS reporting, and planning obligation tracking for UK councils.
How Long Do Section 106 Agreements Last? Timelines and Deadlines
3 May 2026
S106 agreement durations, modification after 5 years, spend-by deadlines, and what planning officers need to track for long-running obligations.
Read more →S106 Financial Tracking: Managing Contributions from Receipt to Spend
26 April 2026
How to track section 106 contributions through the full financial lifecycle — indexation, receipts, allocation, spend, and clawback prevention.
Read more →How S106 Developer Contributions Work: A Guide for Monitoring Officers
19 April 2026
The full lifecycle of S106 developer contributions — from obligation drafting to spend verification — explained for planning monitoring officers.
Read more →Section 106 and Affordable Housing: What Councils Need to Track
12 April 2026
How to monitor section 106 affordable housing obligations — tenure mix, delivery triggers, commuted sums, and the data points planning teams need to record.
Read more →Moving from Spreadsheets to Structured S106 Tracking
5 April 2026
A practical migration path from Excel-based S106 monitoring to structured tracking — what to keep, what to restructure, and how to avoid losing data in the transition.
Read more →S106 vs CIL: A Planning Officer's Guide to Both Systems
29 March 2026
How section 106 and CIL work side by side — when each applies, how they interact, and what planning teams need to track for both.
Read more →Section 106 Agreement Examples: What Planning Officers Need to Know
22 March 2026
Real-world S106 agreement structures broken down — obligation types, trigger points, financial terms, and what to check before signing off.
Read more →S106 Spend Deadlines: What Happens When Developer Money Expires
15 March 2026
How S106 spend-by deadlines work, what happens when councils miss them, and how to track expiry dates across hundreds of live agreements.
Read more →What to Look for in S106 Monitoring Software
8 March 2026
Evaluation criteria for S106 monitoring tools — what planning teams at smaller councils should prioritise when replacing spreadsheets.
Read more →How to Produce Your Infrastructure Funding Statement in Half the Time
1 March 2026
Step-by-step process for compiling your annual IFS efficiently — what Schedule 2 requires, where to find the data, and how to stop starting from scratch each December.
Read more →The Complete Guide to S106 Monitoring for Planning Officers
22 February 2026
How to track every section 106 agreement from trigger to spend — practical monitoring guidance for planning obligations officers at English councils.
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