Select committee: Built Environment Committee
Conclusion 139
1st Report - Meeting housing demand
Published 10 Jan 2022
Built Environment Committee Meeting the UK’s housing demand All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
Since 2010, some developments have been subject to a Community Infrastructure Levy. The Community Infrastructure Levy is an optional locally determined, fixed-rate development charge which is levied in terms of pounds per square metre. Different areas of a planning authority and types of development can have different charging rates. The Community Infrastructure Levy sits alongside Section 106 Agreements, can be used for non-site-specific infrastructure and is intended to fund development across a wider area. Adoption of the Community Infrastructure Levy has grown since its introduction; by the end of 2019 almost half of local planning authorities had adopted one. 215 Table 4: Illustrative Community Infrastructure Levy rates by local authority 216 Local authority Residential charges per sq/m* Date adopted Bolton £45 13/05/2013 Breckland £60 and £0 15/04/2013 Brentwood £200 27/10/2016 Guildford £500, £400, £300, £150 and £100 19/01/2015 Islington £250 and £300 26/06/2014 Newcastle upon Tyne £60, £30 and £0 02/11/2016 Richmondshire £120, £50 and £0 24/10/2016 Selby £50, £35 and £10 03/12/2015 Southend-on-Sea £60, £30 and £20 23/07/2015 Wandsworth £575, £265, £250 and £0 11/07/2014 *The rates vary depending on the charging zone. These rates exclude charges for retirement housing, student accommodation, affordable housing and hotel developments. Source: Planning resource, CIL Watch: who’s charging what? (2 December 2021): https://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1121218/cil-watch-whos- charging-what [accessed 16 December 2021]
From: Built Environment Committee, 1st Report - Meeting housing demand, 10 January 2022
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 28 March 2022 (deadline 10 March 2022).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The Government welcomes the Committee's report and says it is "taking action on a number of the issues identified", agreeing with some recommendations while disagreeing with others, including on home ownership schemes and the Apprenticeship Levy.
- It "disagrees with the report's assessment that homeownership schemes do not provide good value for money", citing independent evaluations and its own evaluation of Help to Buy.
- On older people's housing, it is launching a new taskforce "this year", chaired by the Minister for Housing, to look at better choice, quality and security of housing.
- It does "not intend to set out a proportion" of Affordable Homes Programme funding for social housing, though "around half" of the affordable homes are to be for social and affordable rent.
- On the Apprenticeship Levy it says it has "no plans to review" it. On planning fees it is "exploring options" to increase them, and on local plans it will make an announcement "in due course".