{"id":64380,"date":"2015-11-19T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1eaaf48f03c6f77badf7b247fbfc2c54"},"modified":"2015-11-19T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T09:30:21","slug":"press-release-ensuring-local-communities-benefit-from-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64380","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Ensuring local communities benefit from development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<ul>\n<li>ensuring communities benefit from new housing<\/li>\n<li>support for increased local infrastructure <\/li>\n<li>review to propose new measures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/community-infrastructure-levy-review-questionnaire\">review<\/a> will come forward with proposed measures to ensure that developers are meeting their contribution to improved local infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>The government wants to ensure that local communities can raise funds to support the development of transport infrastructure, schools, health services and recreation facilities. That\u2019s why the Community Infrastructure Levy (<abbr title=\"Community Infrastructure Levy\">CIL<\/abbr>) was introduced in 2010 to help support the delivery of local infrastructure, we want to make sure it is working effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The review is part of the government\u2019s ongoing reforms to streamline the planning system and improve how local communities benefit from development and build the houses the country needs.<\/p>\n<p>Communities Secretary Greg Clark said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our planning reforms have ended the top-down bureaucracy of the past that pitted neighbours against developers \u2013 which means more than a million homes have been granted planning permission since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>We now want to go even further, so we can ensure communities can directly see the benefit of new development and can be confident that new homes come with the infrastructure to support them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This independent review will examine how we can improve the community infrastructure levy to ensure it best benefits local communities whilst delivering the houses the country needs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Planning Minister Brandon Lewis said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Where communities benefit from development they are also more likely to support it, and the Community Infrastructure Levy has played a vital role in contributing to local infrastructure and creating that local support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">As a government we want to build more homes, supported by people who live in the area and this review will look for new ways in which proposed development can benefit whole areas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since its introduction in 2010, <abbr title=\"Community Infrastructure Levy\">CIL<\/abbr> has provided a faster and fairer means of collecting developer contributions to local infrastructure. This has been done via tariff-style contributions on many large developments within a local planning authority\u2019s area.  <\/p>\n<p>Proceeds are typically spent by councils on local infrastructure projects, such as roads and schools and are an alternative to traditional \u2018Section 106\u2019 planning obligations negotiated on an application-by-application basis. <\/p>\n<p>Almost 100 councils are now charging <abbr title=\"Community Infrastructure Levy\">CIL<\/abbr> and more than 200 councils are working towards introducing it.  <\/p>\n<p>The review will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>assess whether <abbr title=\"Community Infrastructure Levy\">CIL<\/abbr> is meeting its objectives of providing a faster, fairer, more certain and transparent means of funding infrastructure through developer contributions<\/li>\n<li>look at the relationship between <abbr title=\"Community Infrastructure Levy\">CIL<\/abbr> and s.106 agreements<\/li>\n<li>consider how reliefs and exemptions operate and whether the neighbourhood element of <abbr title=\"Community Infrastructure Levy\">CIL<\/abbr> is helping to increase community support for development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h2>\n<p>Liz Peace will lead and chair an independent panel carrying out the review. It is drawn from a wide range of interest groups and will assess <abbr title=\"Community Infrastructure Levy\">CIL<\/abbr> as well as recommend changes to improve its operation in support of the government\u2019s wider housing and growth objectives. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/community-infrastructure-levy-review-questionnaire\">call for evidence questionnaire<\/a> is open and it has been published alongside the group\u2019s terms of reference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_40\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Office address and general enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">2 Marsham Street<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLondon<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">SW1P 4DF<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"contact_form_url\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Contact form<\/span><br \/>\n              <a href=\"http:\/\/forms.communities.gov.uk\/\">http:\/\/forms.communiti&#8230;<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">General enquiries:  please use this number if you are a member of the public<\/span><br \/>\n              030 3444 0000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_171\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:press.office@communities.gsi.gov.uk\">press.office@communities.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Please use this number if you&#8217;re a journalist wishing to speak to Press Office<\/span><br \/>\n              030 3444 1201\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers launch a review to ensure people benefit from local development in their area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}