MORE than £1.7m was received by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council through developments last year to go towards improving local infrastructure.
The council’s annual community infrastructure levy (CIL) monitoring report showed that RCT Council brought in £1.75m in 2024/2025.
Of this, 80% is classed as “strategic” to be spent on the council’s regulation 123 list which is a list containing infrastructure projects that are fully or partly funded by CIL.
The amount of strategic CIL income received in 2024/2025 was £1.24m and the amount of strategic income brought forward from 2023/2024 was £1.89m.
There was no strategic income spent in 2024/2025 so the balance of strategic CIL income carried forward to 2025/2026 was £3.13m
Of the total CIL income, 15% is classed as “local” and so is passed on to town and community councils where developments have taken place.
Local CIL income received in 2024/2025 was £386,716.33.
RCT has 12 community or town council areas, which are: Gilfach Goch, Hirwaun, Llanharan, Llanharry, Llantrisant, Llantwit Fardre, Pontyclun, Pontypridd, Rhigos, Taffs Well, Tonyrefail, and Ynysybwl.
Local CIL income received between April 1, 2024 and September 30, 2024 was £114,175.81 which was passed to the relevant town or community councils in October 2024.
Local CIL (15%) income received between October 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025 was £272,540.52.
This was passed on to the relevant town or community councils in April 2025.
The balance for areas where there is no town or community council as at 2024/2025 was £8,478.82.
Llanharan Community Council payments brought forward from 2023/2024 (£143,086.77 and £153,860.57) were released in May 2024.
Pontyclun Community Council payments brought forward from 2023/2024 (£54,789.60 and £23,625.15) were released in May 2024.
Of the total income, 5% is administrative income and the amount of this received in 2024/2025 was £128,522.90.
Administrative income brought forward from 2023/2024 was £255,562.13 with £60,000 being spent in 2024/2025 so the balance of administration income carried forward to 2025/2026 was £324,085.03.
One change is proposed to the regulation 123 list which is to remove new or additional education provision to serve Trane Farm, Tonyrefail as the development is no longer taking place.
The rest of the list is set to remain unaltered and includes:
- New or additional education provision to serve the land at Mwyndy/Talbot Green
- New or additional education provision at the former open
- cast site north of the A473, Llanilid
- Provision of the A473/A4119 Talbot Green to Ynysmaerdy relief road
- A4119/A4093 roundabout, Tonyrefail – signalised junction and active travel improvements
- Llanharan Sustainable Transport Corridor
- Cynon Gateway North
- South Coed Ely link dualling – upgrade the A4119 between Talbot Green and Coedely to dual carriageway standard
- A4119 Castell Mynach signalised junction
- Talbot Green to Bridgend CBC via Llanharan – construction of new active
- travel routes.
- Trefforest Industrial Estate – construction of new active travel routes
- Trefforest Industrial Estate – new railway station
- Aberdare – Hirwaun extension of passenger rail services
- A473 between Tonteg roundabout and Upper Boat roundabout
