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What is the relationship between CIL and planning obligations?

Planning obligations (funding agreements between the local planning authority and the developer) will continue to play an important role in helping to make individual developments acceptable. The CIL is intended to provide infrastructure to support the development of an area rather than to make individual planning applications acceptable in planning terms. As a result, there may still be some site specific impact mitigation requirements without which a development should not be granted planning permission (e.g. affordable housing, local highway and junction improvements and landscaping). Therefore, there is still a legitimate role for development planning obligations to enable a local planning authority to be confident that the specific consequences of development can be mitigated.

  • Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) FAQs
    • What is the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)?
    • What are the benefits of the Community Infrastructure Levy?
    • What is infrastructure?
    • What is the relationship between CIL and planning obligations?
    • Will CIL apply to SDNP applications
    • What development is liable for CIL?
    • What counts as chargeable floor space?
    • Would CIL be chargeable on a barn conversion?
    • Who is liable to pay the levy?
    • Is VAT applied to CIL charges?
    • How will local neighbourhoods benefit from CIL?
    • Is there a mechanism for the CIL to be spent outside of the charging authority?
    • How will CIL respond to factors such as inflation?
    • How is the levy collected and can it be paid in instalments?
    • How will payment of the levy be enforced?
    • Will a development be liable to pay CIL if planning permission is granted before a CIL Implementation date is adopted?
    • Is there any relief from CIL?
    • How will the levy be spent?
    • Will affordable housing/shared ownership be liable for CIL?
    • How will CIL be monitored
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