Clifford Chance

Housing White Paper: Community Infrastructure Levy and other Planning Reforms

9 February 2017

The Government has published a White Paper on housing which seeks to rectify the UK's housing shortage.  It contains various planning reforms aimed at speeding up the house-building process.  It is also accompanied by publication of the Government-commissioned independent report on the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). This report contains proposals for major reform of CIL and a move back to Section 106 Agreements for large development schemes.   This briefing focuses on the CIL recommendations and also considers the other major planning reforms mentioned in the White Paper and accompanying documents which apply to England only.

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