S106 Agreements: GIS Locations of UK Developer Contributions

A GIS representation of a council's register of Section 106 agreements. These legal agreements require developers of larger sites to pay money to the local council to mitigate the impact of their development. The data is provided by the Government Digital Service and shows the locations of the developments that generated the funds.

Use Cases

• Mapping the geographic sources of developer contributions based on the GIS locations.
• Analyzing relationships between development sites and local infrastructure needs based on the described spending purposes.
• Studying the legal and planning framework for development mitigation based on the described S106 agreement process.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly a GIS representation, providing spatial context.
• Description clearly defines the legal and procedural context of S106 agreements.
• Specifies that locations refer to the source of funds, not where they are spent.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely extracted from a council's legal register of planning agreements.

Time Range

null

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Locations refer to developments in the United Kingdom, based on the Section 106 planning mechanism.