Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)

The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) was introduced by the Planning Act 2008 and enables local authorities (in our case, Dorset Council) to deliver infrastructure in support of development in their area, through the adoption of a charging schedule.

This is a charge on developers, at a set amount per square metre of additional floor area and increases each year on 1 January, using the value published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. You can read more about it on the Dorset Council website by clicking here.

Government regulations require the charging authority, Dorset Council, to pass a proportion of its CIL receipts, known as the neighbourhood proportion, on to local town and parish councils in whose area the chargeable development takes place.
Where a neighbourhood plan has been adopted the parish council receives 25% of CIL receipts. Where no neighbourhood plan has been adopted (as is the case in Broadmayne), then the parish council receives 15% of CIL receipts.

You can read about the sums of money which Broadmayne Parish Council has received under the CIL scheme and how that money has been spent by clicking here.