Officers’ society issues timely warning over CIL

10 January 2008

The community infrastructure levy (CIL) may not allow sufficient time for local authorities to put essential infrastructure in place before a development is completed and begins to impact on its surroundings, the Planning Officers Society has warned.

Under the Planning Bill, the CIL is payable at the time of commencement of development, which could be too late for the local authority and too early for the developer, because the levy become payable years before a development generates income.

POS suggests some form of revolving fund, from which infrastructure costs can be borrowed in such cases, and repaid when the CIL is received. It also claims the Bill does not make clear the relationship between CIL and whatever residual provisions of Section 106 remain.

Steve Quartemain, president of POS, said: ‘We are broadly supportive of the direction of travel and are pressing CLG to be involved in discussions on the detail.’

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