Decision details

Westminster Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Implementation Policies

Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Built Environment

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

Westminster City Council adopted a CIL on 20 January 2016 to take effect on 1 May 2016. The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Regulations 2010 (as amended) are prescriptive about how CIL must be calculated and applied to development. But they do also provide some limited measures to allow flexibility. This includes the ability for CIL charging authorities to allow payment of CIL by instalments and to make further reliefs from payment of CIL available alongside the mandatory reliefs that must be made available under the CIL Regulations. Approval will be sought to provide this additional flexibility by publication and implementation of CIL policies and statements related to: Payment of CIL by Instalments; Making discretionary reliefs available; and CIL Infrastructure Payments Policy.

Decision:

The Cabinet Member for the Built Environment is asked to:

 

1.          Approve the Westminster Community Infrastructure Levy Instalment Policy (Appendix 1 to the report) for publication and then implementation from 1 May 2016.

 

2.          Approve the ‘Discretionary Charitable Relief’ and ‘Exceptional Circumstances Relief’ (Appendix 2 to the report) for publication and then implementation from  1 May 2016

 

3.          Note the publication of the initial CIL Infrastructure for the purposes of regulation 123 of the Community Infrastructure Levy regulations 2010 (as amended) (the “Regulation 123 list”) (Appendix 3 to the report)

 

4.          Approve the Westminster Community Infrastructure Levy statements related to ‘Infrastructure Payments Policy’ (Appendix 4 to the report) for publication and implementation from 1 May 2016

 

5.          Delegate authority to the Director of Policy, Performance and Communications  to determine applications made for reliefs, payment in kind and infrastructure payments

 

 

1.       The council considers that adopting a CIL instalment policy, making discretionary reliefs available and providing for the option to make CIL infrastructure payments is an appropriate response to the very diverse circumstances that characterise development in the Westminster. The Council has already indicated that it is minded to make these discretionary reliefs and flexibilities. Publication of a regulation 123 list will provide the council with flexibility about the use of section 106 agreements alongside the CIL.

 

Publication date: 04/05/2016

Date of decision: 04/05/2016

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