Stocksbridge, a small town located about 10 miles north of Sheffield, lies on the edge of the Pennines and the Peak District National Park. It is home to Liberty Steels, a prominent British manufacturer specializing in aerospace steel products.
Stocksbridge Town Council receive income from Sheffield City Council which is derived from planning developments in the area, this is known as Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).
CIL is levied on new developments to fund infrastructure provision and is implemented by local planning authorities. Legislation requires that 15% of CIL collected within the local area is to be retained in that area to be spent on projects that benefit the local community. This is the element of CIL that the Town Council receive.
CIL regulations state that it has to be spent on:- The provision, improvement, replacement, operation or maintenance of infrastructure or anything else that is concerned with addressing the demands that development places on an area.
The Town Council have determined four Spending Priorities as the criteria for CIL expenditure, these being:-
The Town Council would like the community to be involved in expenditure of CIL and have therefore implemented a Participatory Budgeting scheme for this purpose. Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a process which allows members of a community to participate in making spending decisions about local things that affect them. The process allows for community groups to submit bids for projects that fit the criteria and for the community to vote on their preferred project. The winner(s) are decided by which project(s) receive the majority of the votes.
A PB Task Group has been set up to administer the scheme. This group includes representatives covering various sectors of the Town Council area including, rural, recreational, elderly and the community as a whole. It comprises of the following:-
2025 Participatory Budgeting Event
PB Explanation Document – 2025
This year’s event took place at The Venue on 15th October 2025.
The winners of the public vote for this year’s event were:
A full list of the voting results for this year’s event can be found below:
2024 Participatory Budgeting Event
The Town Council planned a further Participatory Budgeting event for 2024 with £36,000 of funding available for groups/organisations to apply for. Only 3 applications were received, therefore the decision was taken by the Participatory Budgeting Task Group to award all 3 groups with the funding requested, being:-
Stocksbridge Community Leisure Centre – £10,000 towards new pool covers
Steel Valley Project – £9,936 towards Oxley Park All Wheels Park Landscape Improvements
Upper Don Trails Trust – £1,957 towards a Waymarking Project
Previous events
The results for previous years’ events can be viewed below:
Participatory Budgeting Event Results – 2022
Participatory Budgeting Event Results – 2019
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