Issue - meetings

To receive a progress update in respect of the implementation of the CIL.

The Director of Environment, Culture and Communities presented the report updating the Panel on the member involvement in creating the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).  The CIL would become the key mechanism by which the Council would secure money to create and modify infrastructure to ensure the impact of development was mitigated.  The levy was important to the Council and its services.

The Executive this evening agreed that the Overview and Scrutiny Commission be invited to establish a working group to support the development of the Council’s first CIL and that the Commission should consider inviting a representative of the Town and Parish Councils onto the working group. The working group would be expected to contribute to the steps that would need to be followed to introduce a CIL.  The intention was to have a CIL regime in place before autumn 2013 and member input was sought as soon as practically possible.

The Panel noted the report.