Section 106 Agreements

What are Section 106 Agreements?

Planning obligations, also known as Section 106 Agreements (based on The 1990 Town & Country Planning Act), are legal agreements made between local authorities and developers and can be attached to planning permission to make acceptable development, which would otherwise be unacceptable in planning terms. The land itself, rather than the person or organisation that develops the land, is bound by a Section 106 Agreement, something any future owners will need to take into account.