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Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule

CIL Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule

Representation ID: 56143

Received: 18/06/2013

Respondent: Federation of Small Businesses

Representation Summary:

CIL will be a new tax on the construction of single dwellings or small developments at a time when the need to build more new housing is one of the biggest challenges facing local authorities.

At the same time affordable hpusing requirements are being extended in the proposed Local Plan, which although this can be waived if development is made unviable, demonstrating this adds another cost and risks development not coming forward. This disproportionate burden is not reflected in the viability modelling.

Have WDC considered, within their viability assessment, the difference between out-of-town retail and prime high street frontage, against secondary trading locations and calculate CIL charges that reflects these differentials? We must encourage development within our town centres.

The FSB calls on WDC to ensure that there is a link between the development paying CIL and the infrastructure it funds.

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