Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Planning Services seeking the Cabinet’s endorsement of the Huntingdonshire Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule, the related Instalment Policy, and the Regulation 123 Infrastructure List for submission to Council.

Recommended to Council that the Huntingdonshire Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule 2012, the CIL Instalment Policy and the CIL regulation 123 Infrastructure List be approved, subject to this approval approved a “correctable error” as a point of legal clarification for the Charging Schedule and authorised the Head of Planning Services, after consultation with the Executive Councillor for Strategic Planning and Housing, to undertake the necessary procedures required to make this error.

Further to Minute No. 11/81 and by way of a report by the Head of Planning Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) the Cabinet considered the content of the Huntingdonshire Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Charging Schedule 2012, the CIL Instalment Policy and the CIL Regulation 123 Infrastructure List.

In so doing, Members were reminded that the Schedule had been the subject of a formal public examination by an Independent Examiner appointed by the Planning Inspectorate.  The Cabinet were advised that the document included a number of minor modifications identified by the Examiner but that subject to their inclusion he had found the Schedule to be viable.  The Schedule could therefore be adopted by Council.  It was explained that once approved, the CIL would be used in conjunction with the Developer Contributions Supplementary Planning Document in order to determine the scale of developer contributions towards site related infrastructure and wider community infrastructure across the District.

Members were advised that the approved document would require “a correctable error”, in accordance with Regulation 26 of the Community Infrastructure Regulations 2010 (as amended).  Having noted that this would legally clarify the position on charging where planning permission was granted to change the use of existing floor space, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  (a)  that Council be recommended to approve the Huntingdonshire Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule 2012, the CIL Instalment Policy and the CIL Regulation 123 Infrastructure List for implementation from 1^st May 2012;

  (b)  that Council be requested to approve, as a point of legal clarification, a “correctable error” for the Charging Schedule referred to in paragraph 4.2 of the report now submitted; and

  (c)  that the Head of Planning Services be authorised, after consultation with the Executive Councillor for Planning and Housing, to undertake the necessary procedures required to make the “correctable error” identified and to commence implementation of the approved Huntingdonshire Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule on 1st May 2012.