Posted on July 11, 2014

Parm Dosanjh formed part of an expert panel at a one day conference hosted by lawyers Addleshaw Goddard on the ‘Emerging impacts of CIL, new policy developments and key lessons learnt so far’. Parm was involved in discussing the following issue: ‘Striking the right balance: is CIL contributing to infrastructure delivery or limiting new development?’.

The key conclusion to debate was that it is too early to tell the impact that CIL has had on the delivery infrastructure, given that not many authorities have a CIL Charging Schedule in place; however, based on levels of collections seen by those authorities now collecting CIL, is that CIL needs to be a contribution to an overall infrastructure funding pot which includes other sources of funding (e.g. LGF, RGF etc.); on its own the amounts collected from CIL on an annual basis are insufficient to fund the required infrastructure identified within the S123 lists. The issue on site S106 costs and the S123 Infrastructure list was also discussed in great depth in terms of avoiding double dipping, but also ensuring that sites which require certain infrastructure to enable them to be unlocked retain the control to deliver the required works without having to rely on CIL. This point was particularly pertinent for strategic and more complicated development sites.