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ANGER AT COUNCIL ‘SITTING ON’ £42M IN UNSPENT CASH
The Journal
|October 14, 2025
Council bosses "sitting on’ tens of millions of pounds in unspent cash have been urged to speed up promised community upgrades across Newcastle.
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> Coun Peter Allen
Newcastle City Council currently holds £42m of unused Section 106 (S106) payments, money secured from developers as part of planning permissions being granted.
The cash can be spent on things like new schools, affordable homes, transport infrastructure, healthcare provision, and sports facilities. But councillors have been told that, while much of the unspent money is committed for specific projects that are yet to come forward, only a relatively small fraction has been used in the last year.
This story is from the October 14, 2025 edition of The Journal.
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