What is a Community Infrastructure Levy?
The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a levy which local
authorities can choose to charge on new developments. It is a
tariff-based approach to assist in funding infrastructure
associated with planned growth. CIL needs to be based on evidence
identified by carrying out an infrastructure plan for the
District. The types of infrastructure, broadly defined
as being of a strategic nature, include: roads and other
transport facilities, flood defences, schools and educational
facilities, medical facilities, sporting and recreational
facilities and open spaces. Although the levy must be spent on
infrastructure, each authority has autonomy within this remit to
decide how, and on what, it spends the funds.
Community Infrastructure Levy is effective from
Monday 3rd April 2017.
CIL was taken to Full Council on 17th
November 2016.
The CIL Charging Schedule was
approved on 17th November 2016 and will take effect from Monday 3rd
April 2017.
Inspectors Report 19th
October 2016
Instalments Policy
Frequently Asked Questions For Developers
and Town and Parish Councils
Report to Town
and Parish - September 2018
Regulation 123 List
Stages So Far...
Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule
South Somerset District Council published a Preliminary Draft
Charging Schedule in 2012. A list of the parties who
submitted representations, and a summary of the issues raised, are
set out below. The comments were duly considered, informing
the preparation of the Draft Charging Schedule. List of respondents
and summary of comments
Draft Charging Schedule
In the process of creating its Community Infrastructure Levy,
the Council recently consulted on its Draft Charging
Schedule. The consultation ran for six weeks,
from Wednesday 10th February 2016 to Thursday 24th March
2016. Further details on the Draft Charging Schedule can be found
here: http://consult.southsomerset.gov.uk/consult.ti/system/listConsultations.
The documentation, which was available to be viewed during the
consultation on the Draft Charging Schedule can be found in the
table below.
Submission of Draft Charging Schedule
The Council has duly considered all of the 34 consultation
responses received on the Draft Charging Schedule. A summary of the
main issues raised and the Council's response to those issues can
be found in the '
Analysis of Consultation Responses and Summary of
Main Issues' document.
Based upon the consultation responses, the Council is proposing
two modifications to the Draft Charging Schedule. These can be read
in full in the Statement of
Modifications document.
The Council has also made some other minor changes, these
are summarised as:
- Minor alterations to the Instalments Policy to take account of
South Somerset's range of small-scale and large-scale
developments;
- An additional viability appraisal of an "800 dwelling
Yeovil Urban Extension" typology to add to the existing liability
work (see table above for further details); and
- Further analysis of the need for additional cemetery
infrastructure in Yeovil is currently being undertaken to
support this item being added to the Regulation 123 List (see table
above for further details).
The formal modifications and the effect of these changes can
be viewed here:
South Somerset Community Infrastructure Levy_Draft Charging
Schedule_Submission Version (May 2016)
Consultation responses on the Community Infrastructure
Levy Statement of Modifications can be seen here:Community
Infrastructure Levy Modifications Responses
The Draft
Charging Schedule was submitted to the Examiner on 27th
May 2016. The following documents have been
submitted to the Examiner: Draft Charging Schedule; Analysis of
consultation responses and Summary of main issues; Copies of
representations on the DCS; Statement of Modifications; and copies
of relevant evidence.
These documents are available for inspection at libraries in
South Somerset, the District Council offices at Brympton Way,
Yeovil; Petters House, Yeovil; Churchfields, Wincanton; and
Holyrood Lace Mill, Chard.