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How will the introduction of the Community Infrastructure Levy impact on local development plans? Karen Cooksley explains all

The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) was introduced by the 2008 Planning Act and came into force via regulations issued in 2010 and 2011.  It is an optional tariff based system of collecting money to pay for all or part of the cost of providing infrastructure to support development.  Local authorities determine what infrastructure is required and can use the money to provide, improve or operate facilities.

Is an institution a building? The advantage of a building is that it makes physically manifest a set of ideas. Its presence is the product of decisions. The decisions are shaped by the desire to enable a set of ideas to become the norm. Seen in this context, the most important aspect of any building is the brief. The most important part of the brief is not the technical specification. It is the honed down expression of desire.