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Public Bill Committee: 29th January 2008                

457

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

(c)    

to have regard, to the extent and in the manner specified by the

 

regulations, to actual or expected administrative expenses in connection

 

with CIL;

 

(d)    

to have regard, to the extent and in the manner specified by the

 

regulations, to values used or documents produced for other statutory

 

purposes;

 

(e)    

to integrate the process, to the extent and in the manner specified by the

 

regulations, with processes undertaken for other statutory purposes;

 

(f)    

to present the rates or other criteria in the form of a document (a

 

“charging schedule”);

 

(g)    

to produce charging schedules having effect in relation to specified

 

periods (subject to revision).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to provide regulation-making power to permit or require charging

 

authorities to have regard to (amongst other things) the costs of developing infrastructure,

 

increases in land value, and, administrative costs in setting CIL rates and criteria and to require

 

these rates to be presented in a charging schedule.

 

John Healey

 

547

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  17,  leave out ‘authorities’ and insert ‘schedules’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This effect of this amendment is to provide a power for CIL regulations to permit or require

 

charging schedules (see amendment 546) to adopt specified methods or criteria for calculating the

 

rate of CIL.

 

John Healey

 

548

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  20,  leave out ‘calculation’ and insert ‘charging schedules

 

to operate’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment follows amendment 547.

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

588

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  20,  after ‘descriptions’, insert ‘, locality’.

 

John Healey

 

549

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(aa)    

permit or require charging schedules to operate by reference to any

 

measurement of the amount or nature of development (whether by

 

reference to measurements of floor space, to numbers or intended uses of

 

buildings, to numbers or intended uses of units within buildings, to

 

allocation of space within buildings or units, to values or expected values

 

or in any other way);

 

(ab)    

permit or require charging schedules to operate by reference to the nature

 

or existing use of the place where development is undertaken;’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment sets out examples of the ways in which the charging schedule (provided for in

 

amendment 546) might operate.


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 29th January 2008                

458

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

598

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  22,  leave out paragraph (b).

 

John Healey

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

38

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  leave out lines 22 to 24.

 

John Healey

 

551

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  25,  leave out ‘refer to, or permit,’ and insert ‘permit or

 

require charging schedules to operate by’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment follows amendment 546.

 

John Healey

 

552

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  27,  leave out ‘refer to, or permit,’ and insert ‘permit or

 

require charging schedules to operate by’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment is consequent to amendment 546.

 

John Healey

 

553

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  27,  after ‘used’, insert ‘or documents produced’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment clarifies that regulations may provide for the CIL charging schedule to operate

 

with reference to documents produced for other statutory purposes.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

599

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  27,  leave out paragraph (d).

 

John Healey

 

554

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  29,  after ‘permit’, insert ‘or require’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to provide an additional power for CIL regulations to require a

 

charging schedule to contain provision for reductions in CIL .


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 29th January 2008                

459

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

600

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  30,  leave out subsection (5).

 

John Healey

 

555

 

Clause  166,  page  94,  line  31,  at end insert—

 

‘(6)    

In this section a reference to publication includes a reference to making available

 

for inspection.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment clarifies that the powers in clause 166(2)(a) to require charging authorities to

 

publish the rates or criteria by reference which they charge CIL includes power to require

 

charging authorities to make them available for public inspection.

 


 

John Healey

 

556

 

Clause  167,  page  94,  line  34,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

In subsection (1) “infrastructure” includes—

 

(a)    

roads and other transport facilities,

 

(b)    

flood defences,

 

(c)    

schools and other educational facilities,

 

(d)    

medical facilities,

 

(e)    

sporting and recreational facilities,

 

(f)    

open spaces, and

 

(g)    

affordable housing (being social housing within the meaning of Part 2 of

 

the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 and such other housing as CIL

 

regulations may specify).

 

(1B)    

The regulations may amend subsection (1A) so as to—

 

(a)    

add, remove or vary an entry in the list of matters included within the

 

meaning of “infrastructure”;

 

(b)    

list matters excluded from the meaning of “infrastructure”.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment provides certainty about what types of infrastructure CIL can be spent on by

 

listing certain items in a definition of “infrastructure”. It also enables regulations to be made to

 

alter the definition.

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

443

 

Clause  167,  page  94,  line  35,  after ‘specify’, insert ‘that charging authorities are to

 

determine’.


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 29th January 2008                

460

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

John Healey

 

557

 

Clause  167,  page  94,  leave out line 37 and insert ‘funded by CIL,’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment alters the meaning of clause 167(2) so that the power there becomes a power to

 

specify what works, installations and other facilities may or may not be funded by CIL.

 

Dan Rogerson

 

Tom Brake

 

575

 

Clause  167,  page  94,  line  40,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The regulations must be consistent with the principle that funding from the CIL

 

should be used to fund projects, or aspects of projects, for which funds have not

 

already been allocated by—

 

(a)    

a Government department,

 

(b)    

the Scottish Ministers,

 

(c)    

a Northern Ireland department,

 

(d)    

the National Assembly for Wales,

 

(e)    

a local authority, or

 

(f)    

a regional development agency.’.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

601

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  167,  page  94,  line  40,  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

ring-fenced funding for community infrastructure to ensure that it is

 

additional to other infrastructure monies.’.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

603

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  167,  page  94,  line  40,  at end insert—

 

‘(d)    

that such finding should relate to community infrastructure and be in

 

addition to any other infrastructure funding.’.

 

John Healey

 

558

 

Clause  167,  page  95,  line  3,  at end insert—

 

‘(c)    

include provision about the circumstances in which a charging authority

 

may and may not apply CIL to projects not included on the list.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to allow for CIL regulations to control the circumstances in which

 

CIL may be used to fund infrastructure not included in a list of infrastructure which may required

 

to be produced by them under clause 167(3)(a).


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 29th January 2008                

461

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

602

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  167,  page  95,  line  3,  at end insert—

 

‘(c)    

require authorities to use best endeavours to deliver the infrastructure

 

upon which the level of CIL is predicated;

 

(d)    

require all other providers of infrastructure involved in the delivery of

 

infrastructure, for which CIL is being levied, to use best endeavours to

 

assist in delivering the infrastructure upon which the level of CIL is

 

predicated.’.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

604

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  167,  page  95,  leave out lines 8 to 10.

 

John Healey

 

559

 

Clause  167,  page  95,  line  27,  at end add—

 

‘(6)    

In this section a reference to publication includes a reference to making available

 

for inspection.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment clarifies that the power in clause 166(3)(a) to make regulations requiring

 

charging authorities to publish a list of CIL- funded projects includes the power to require that this

 

document is made available for public inspection.

 

Dan Rogerson

 

Tom Brake

 

576

 

Clause  167,  page  95,  line  27,  at end add—

 

‘(6)    

The regulations must require the charging authority to consult—

 

(a)    

relevant parish councils,

 

(b)    

relevant community councils in Wales, and

 

(c)    

relevant community councils in Scotland,

 

    

in the areas affected by the development in respect of which CIL is chargeable.’.

 



 
 

Public Bill Committee: 29th January 2008                

462

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

605

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  168,  page  95,  line  35,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘must’.

 

John Healey

 

560

 

Clause  168,  page  95,  line  38,  leave out ‘one’ and insert ‘a charging authority or

 

other public’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment is to clarify that a number of charging or other authorities (as opposed to just

 

one) may collect CIL on behalf of a charging authority.

 

John Healey

 

561

 

Clause  168,  page  95,  line  39,  at end insert ‘authority.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment follows amendment 560.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

606

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  168,  page  95,  line  41,  at end add—

 

‘(7)    

Regulations under this section may make provision concerning the holding and

 

investment of funds raised by way of CIL.’.

 


 

John Healey

 

562

 

Clause  169,  page  96,  line  4,  at end insert ‘or surcharge;’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment clarifies that regulations on the enforcement of CIL may provide for the

 

imposition of a surcharge.

 

John Healey

 

563

 

Clause  169,  page  96,  line  8,  after ‘pending’, insert ‘assumption of liability for CIL

 

or pending’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to extend the power in clause 169(1)(2)(e) so that authorities can

 

be empowered to prohibit a development not only when some is liable to pay CIL but when

 

someone is yet to assume that liability.


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 29th January 2008                

463

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

John Healey

 

564

 

Clause  169,  page  96,  line  10,  at end insert ‘(including, in particular, offences

 

relating to evasion or attempted evasion or to the provision of false or misleading

 

information, and offences relating to the prevention or investigation of other offences

 

created by the regulations).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment gives examples of the types of criminal offence that may be provided for in CIL

 

regulations.

 

John Healey

 

565

 

Clause  169,  page  96,  line  10,  at end insert—

 

‘(g)    

for enforcement of sums owed (whether by action on a debt, by distraint

 

against goods or in any other way).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment allows for regulations to make provision for enforcing payment of CIL through

 

civil proceedings such as a debt action or by distraint against goods.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

607

 

Parliamentary Star    

Clause  169,  page  96,  line  10,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

Regulations made under this section may may make provision for land owners

 

and developers to reclaim CIL should infrastructure not be delivered in

 

accordance with agreements.’.

 


 

John Healey

 

566

 

Clause  170,  page  96,  line  32,  after ‘authority’, insert ‘or other public authority’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The effect of this amendment is to allow the Secretary of State to issue guidance to other public

 

authorities on CIL connected matters (and not just charging authorities) and to require them to

 

have regard to it.

 

John Healey

 

567

 

Clause  170,  page  96,  line  33,  leave out ‘a charging’ and insert ‘the’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment follows amendment 566.


 
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