Section 106 Replacement Delayed By a Year

Plans to introduce a planning levy are likely to be pushed back a year to give councils more time to put their charging schedules in place.  A consultation published by the CLG proposes that the full implementation of the community infrastructure levy be delayed until April 2015, rather than April next year, to allow councils to continue to pool contributions from developers from different planning obligations.  The levy was intended to replace section 106 agreements, which are negotiable arrangements made between councils and developers to fund roads, affordable housing and community facilities on top of the cost of development. But developers expressed concerns that CIL levels, which are non-negotiable charges made by square metre on development, were being set unaffordably high.  Download a copy of the consultation from the Gov UK website or see the Live Consultations page in this blog.