CIL Presentation for Ditchling Neighbourhood Plan Group

Gareth Giles – Planning Project Manager

CIL basics

• A new planning charge on new development• Solely to fund infrastructure• Largely replaces Section 106 agreements• Applied for each new square metre (net)• 25% of income passed directly to Parish

Councils with a Neighbourhood Plan

What is Infrastructure?

• Broad definition in the Planning Act• Includes transport schemes, schools, community

services, sports and leisure facilities, green infrastructure, flood defences….. etc

• Projects identified on an Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP)

What CIL looks like

www.southdowns.gov.uk/cil

IDP

What CIL looks like

Use / typeCharge (£/sqm) Notes

Residential – Zone 1* 150 P’field, Lewes, Petworth,

M’hst

Residential – Zone 2* 100 Liss

Residential – Zone 3* 200 Everywhere else

Large format retail 120 Tested at 2000sqm

All other development 0 All other uses marginal or

nil* assumed 40% affordable housing policy in Local Plan: to be confirmed.

Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP)

Local Plan Neighbourhood Plan

CIL

Plan

IDP

Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP)

Categories Project Examples

Transport Cycle paths

Education Primary schools

Health GP Surgeries

Social & Leisure Sports centres; culture

Services & Facilities Village halls; emergency services

Green Infrastructure Biodiversity projects; open space

Utility Services Broadband; waste management

Parish Councils can input to the IDP at any time via CIL@southdowns.gov.uk

• Need Cost info• Relationship to Plan and/or Growth

• IDP projects considered for CIL and other SDNPA funding

• Consider “added value” for National Park• Top-up funding potential from SDNPA’s 75%

Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP)

CIL Timetable

Preliminary Draft

March 2014

Draft Charging Schedule Summer 2015

Examination

Late 2015/16

AdoptionApril 2016

Contact Us

CIL@southdowns.gov.uk

01730 819261

South Downs Centre, North Street, Midhurst,

West Sussex, GU29 9DH

www.southdowns.gov.uk/CIL