The Community Infrastructure Levy

Regeneration and development (whether residential, commercial or mixed-use) requires additional infrastructure to support it. The 'Community Infrastructure Levy' (CIL) is a new statutory planning tariff which – when it is introduced - will aim to ensure that a proportion of the cost of providing that infrastructure is obtained from landowners and developers. It replaces the much maligned (and now mothballed) proposed planning-gain supplement and will sit alongside measures such as s106 agreements, business rates supplements and (possibly, in the future) innovative measures such as tax increment financing.

A 'placemarker' has been set in the form of enabling legislation in the Planning Act 2008, although the detail of the CIL is contained in as-yet unpublished draft regulations (which we refer to here as the 'CIL Regulations'). What we can tell from the Planning Act, however, is the following.

Wragge & Co's experts provide further information on the new CIL.