Issue - meetings

Purpose: to report and respond to the consultation comments received on the Community Infrastructure Levy Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule and recommend changes to the Draft Charging Schedule for public consultation and to submit to the Secretary of State for formal examination.

Cabinet considered the head of planning’s report setting out consultation responses to the community infrastructure levy preliminary draft charging schedule.  It also set out recent changes to guidance and proposed a draft charging schedule for approval before the next round of consultation. 

Cabinet reviewed the charging schedule and made changes to the charges for older person’s accommodation.  Extra care facilities (class C2) and residential care homes (C3) were considered to be unlikely to be viable if they were subject to the community infrastructure levy.  Also, Cabinet proposed that rural exception housing schemes should also be exempt from the levy. 

RESOLVED to recommend Council on 19 February 2015 to:

(a)     publish for public consultation the Community Infrastructure Levy Draft Charging Schedule and supporting documents (Viability Study, Draft Regulation 123 list, Infrastructure Planning and Funding Gap Report, Infrastructure Delivery Plan, responses on the Community Infrastructure Levy Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule, Statement of the Representations Procedure) for a period of four weeks, and thereafter;

(b)     authorise the head of planning in consultation with the Cabinet member for planning policy to submit the Community Infrastructure Levy Draft Charging Schedule and supporting documents and evidence, together with the consultation statement and summary of consultation responses received, to the Secretary of State for independent examination in accordance with the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 (as amended); and

(c)     authorise the head of planning in consultation with the Cabinet member for planning policy, to make minor changes and corrections to the Draft Charging Schedule and associated documents.