Agenda item

A report of the Director of the Built Environment was considered in relation to the adoption and implementation of the City of London Community Infrastructure Levy.

Members discussed the proposed implementation date of the City CIL which was 1^st July 2014 and the Policy and Performance Director confirmed that this would allow sufficient time between the adoption and implementation for most developers to complete outstanding S106 planning obligations and thereby avoid abortive work.

RESOLVED – That,

a)      it be noted that the inspector’s report supported the proposed City CIL and recommended its approval;

b)      the proposed ‘correctable errors’ to the City of London Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule and the Charging Schedule for adoption, with implementation from 1^st July 2014 be approved;

c)      the Regulation 123 List, concerning infrastructure be funded by the City CIL, which sits alongside the City CIL Charging Schedule;

d)      authority be delegated to the City Planning Officer and/or Development Director and/or Director of the Built Environment to approve scaled back s106 Agreements in place of the full form of s106 Agreements in cases where the planning application has been approved subject to a full s106 Agreement, and where it has not been possible to complete the s106 Agreement prior to implementation of the City CIL, and where the delegated officer considers it appropriate to do so; and

e)      a transitional measure be approved to honour proposed expenditure in s106 Agreements, where it has not been possible to complete the Agreements, and where the specific s106 expenditure was relied upon in determining that applications were acceptable.