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Case studies urgenly needed for CLA's Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) lobbyingCase studies are urgently required for the CLA's contribution to the consultation on the draft regulations of the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). The Government has published its latest consultation on the Community Infrastructure Levy, and the CLA has produced a Briefing Note setting out the highlights of the consultation. The CIL is a standard planning charge which the Government proposes to largely replace the current Planning Obligation regime (known as Section 106 agreements). The CIL has been developed because the Government wants all development, no matter where it is located, to contribute to the provision of infrastructure - if the development impacts on infrastructure.
So the new CIL will capture a much wider range of development including all forms of rural development. The CLA has been engaging with the Government over CLA members' businesses, setting out the case for why agricultural and forestry development should be given a national exemption by an amendment to the draft regulations. The exemption would be dealt with by adding Class III (greenhouses and agricultural buildings) of the Building Regulations exemptions to the list of development excluded from CIL.
One of the criteria for the CIL is "economic viability". To illustrate to the Government the pressure that the CIL would place on development of agricultural and forestry buildings, Senior Planning Adviser Fenella Collins is looking for case studies from members across England and Wales, and in the upland areas too. The ideal case study would be budgets or other financial appraisals, which include rates of return and payback periods that have been prepared for:
· Agricultural buildings erected for agricultural purposes including hay/straw barns, livestock buildings, grain stored, implement sheds, potato/vegetable stores and so on, · Dairy buildings, · Covered silage clamps and slurry tanks, · Packhouses that are ancillary to farming business, and · Forestry buildings erected for forestry purposes.
And similarly for rural diversification, Fenella requests case studies to help in her lobbying for a higher de minimis threshold:
· Conversion of redundant farm buildings to offices, industrial, commercial, equine, holiday homes and so on, · Listed agricultural building conversions to new uses, and · New build for equine, diversification enterprises and so on.
Neither list is exhaustive. All case studies will be kept anonymous and individual farms will not be identified.
Bearing in mind that the consultation closes on 23 October 2009, Fenella needs the case studies urgently. They should be emailed to: fenella.collins@cla.org.uk
The CLA Briefing Note on the latest CIL consultation is available from the CLA's Regional Offices. For those members who want to look at the CIL consultation itself, it can be found by following this link:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/communitylevyconsultation
Finally, if we continue to be unsuccessful at a national level over these issues, we shall be able to lobby at a local level, and for this we will need members' help. The CLA's Regional and London staff will be preparing a paper for use in lobbying local authorities' CIL policies and charging schedules. |
Contact Fenella Collins MRICS
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