Draft Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Charging Schedule Review - Draft CIL Charging Schedule Review - Sevenoaks District Council

6. Do you have any comments on the Draft CIL Charging Schedule, including the updated rates and the types of development to which CIL will apply?

Current CIL Charging Schedule Current CIL Charging Schedule

The Council currently operates a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Charging Schedule, which sets the rates payable on qualifying development in Areas A and B.

1. Superstores/supermarkets are shopping destinations in their own right (of 500 sq m of sales floorspace or more) where weekly food shopping needs are met and which can also include non-food floorspace as part of the overall mix of the unit.

2. Convenience goods: Food and non-alcoholic beverages, Tobacco, Alcoholic beverages (off-trade), Newspapers and periodicals, Non-durable household goods.

3. Retail warehouses are large stores (of 500 sq m of sales floorspace or more) specialising in the sale of household goods (such as carpets, furniture and electrical goods), DIY items and other ranges of goods, catering for mainly car-borne customers.

Areas A and B are set out on the map below

Proposed Draft CIL Charging Schedule Proposed Draft CIL Charging Schedule

The proposed Draft CIL Charging Schedule retains the same charging areas, but will set CIL rates for minor residential development (1-9 dwellings) only. The proposed rates are shown below. All major residential development (10+ dwellings) and non-residential uses will be required to mitigate their infrastructure impacts through site-specific Section 106 agreements.

The charging areas within Sevenoaks District are shown on the map below.

Development subject to this Charging Schedule

This Charging Schedule applies only to:

Residential development creating 1-9 dwellings.

Development not subject to this Charging Schedule

The following forms of development fall outside the scope of this Charging Schedule:

Residential development creating 10 or more dwellings.
Non-residential development.
Householder applications.
Any other development that does not result in the creation of between 1 and 9 residential dwellings.

Please provide your comments here

7. Do you consider the revised approach to securing infrastructure, including the use of Section 106 for major development and CIL for smaller-scale residential development, to be appropriate and justified?

Yes No Unsure

Please provide your comments here

8. Do you consider that the supporting evidence, including the viability assessment, provides an appropriate and proportionate basis for the proposed changes set out in the Draft CIL Charging Schedule?

Yes No Unsure

Please provide your comments here

9. Supporting Documents

You can upload any supporting documentation below. If you are looking to upload multiple files, please put these in a 'Zip' file and upload the file as one document.

If you have any issues with file upload, please email the files to planning.policy@sevenoaks.gov.uk, quoting your Response ID (which you will receive once your comments are submitted) and we will be happy to upload this for you.

Please make sure your file is under 10MB

10. Do you wish to speak at the public examination of the Draft CIL Charging Schedule?

Yes No

11. Do you wish to be notified of any of the following? Please choose all that apply.

That the Draft CIL Charging Schedule has been submitted to the Examiner in accordance with section 212 of the Planning Act 2008 The publication of the recommendations of the Examiner and the reasons for those recommendations The approval of the CIL Charging Schedule by the charging authority