We have posted before about the lack of transitional arrangements in the draft CIL regulations (eg 9th December and 23rd October). The problem in short is that planning permissions being granted now could be caught by CIL. This strikes us as unfair given that many of them will have their own section 106 agreements and that they will be bankable fundable assets, whose value will go down if CIL is applied to them.
So it's good to see that we are not alone in our concerns on this. "Planning" magazine has today published this article about the issue from which we see that other planning lawyers have picked it up as well.
We do hope that the Government will address it with simple words in the Regulations. Their declared intention is to bring them in on 6th April.
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