Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Community Infrastructure Levy
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Haringey's CIL Charging Schedule
Haringey’s CIL Charging Schedule was adopted by decision of Full Council on 21 July 2014. It will be implemented on 1 November 2014. You can download the Adoption notice (PDF, 230KB) and the Adopted CIL Charging Schedule (PDF, 2MB
What is the Community Infrastructure Levy?
Under the Planning Act 2008, the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) was introduced in April 2010. It is a new levy, which allows local authorities in England and Wales to fund infrastructure by charging on new developments, based on the size and type of the new developments in their area. The money can be used to support growth by paying for a wide range of infrastructure that is needed as a result of new development. This infrastructure will include things like parks, schools, community facilities, health facilities and leisure centres.
See more at http://www.haringey.gov.uk/cil
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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I think this is one of those things that matters a lot but is so wrapped up in bureaucracy that people approaching it start to lose the will to live.
It does this by wilfully ignoring anything eye-catching. Surely one of the very first questions the casual reader will ask is, how much is the levy?
Looks to be £65/sq metre. Here's a quick 2013 search result for some context:
It looks to be around a 6% levy of the value of the land. The rules are difficult to understand and look very much like a right-wing governments attempt to make it even easier for developers, but I could be wrong.
The levy can only be charged if the development creates the need for extra infrastructure. That's what I mean about a 'conservative' view. Any housing development, for example, is bound to have a whole range of effects. The clusters of rich gated settlements West of the 'Berlin Wall' that cuts our borough in half, for example, help deepen the biggest problem we have - inequality. The rich don't care, however, so why should they pay extra just because they are rich?
The levy is also a one-off. It should surely be annual. Whatever happened to the idea that you pay more if you earn more? You pay less if you are poor?
The person who sells their five bedroom house for twice what it's worth walks away scot free - people don't pay tax on the enormous profit when they sell their house. The person who buys it does not pay the CIL.
It also seems that the 'old' Section 106 (another bit of off-putting jargon designed to obfuscate) can also still be charged.
Planning laws I suppose needs must be very complex. It cannot be easy to balance competing needs, and must always be deeply political.
I want to see a stop to building any more luxury housing (over £250,000 per bedroom or somesuch) anywhere in Haringey. Many would oppose that view. The general response seems to be, this type of planning approach is a national issue that cannot be changed locally.
That's not true. There are a whole range of practical things that can be done to stop the damaging property gap between us widening - this levy is a small part of one of them, but it's too wrapped up in the language of right-wing capitalism to be accessible and, let's face it, people are so detached from the political process that they just can't be bothered, even though it bites them hard later on when they realise, too late, what we have lost.
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