Consultation period provided to change Community Infrastructure Levy
A six-week consultation period has begun on how charges can be made on new developments to create suitable infrastructure.
It runs until July 9 and has been created by the joint authorities of Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils.
The Community Infrastructure Levy was brought in by the govemment to allow local authorities the opportunity to charge a levy on all eligible chargeable development to provide infrastructure to support new development taking place within councils’ administrative areas.
The current amounts charged and the types of development which incur the charge are set out in the Babergh District Council and Mid Suffolk District Council CIL Charging Schedules adopted in April 2016. These amounts are index-linked.
They are now inviting groups, organisations and individuals to make representations in response to the six-week consultation period.
Given the need to provide infrastructure to support new development within both districts and rising infrastructure costs, both councils have agreed to undertake the formal consultation on the proposed increases in the rate of CIL to be charged on certain developments, following viability testing which was completed in November 2024.
All responses will be considered, analysed by the councils and submitted into an examination to be held by an independent examiner before the councils can adopt any revised CIL rates.
Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils became CIL charging authorities and implemented their scheme of CIL charging on April 111, 2016.
At that time, both councils agreed they would not be revising these CIL charging rates within a three year period from that date.
This period expired on April 11, 2019.
The revised CIL Charging Schedules and associated documentation are available for public inspection on the councils’ websites
www.babergh.gov.uk/communify-intrastructure-levy
and
www.midsuffolk.gov.uk/community-infrastructure-levy
or at their office at Endeavour House, 8 Russell Road, Ipswich, IP1 2BX; the Customer Access Points at Sudbury Library, Market Hill, Sudbury, CO10 2EN and 54 Ipswich Street, Stowmarket, IP14 1AD.