Independent examination of Community Infrastructure Levy

Information about the public examination of our Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) charging schedule and the evidence for our proposal.

We made a CIL Draft Charging Schedule (pdf, 1.3MB) (opens new window)  that set out the:

• reasons we wanted to introduce CIL
• CIL rates for Bristol 

This had to be examined by an independent person before we could formally approve it.

The examination

Mr Nigel Payne BSc (Hons), Dip TP, MRTPI, MCMI, carried out the examination. Mr Payne is a planning inspector from the Planning Inspectorate.

The examination hearings were on 20 and 21 June 2012.

We appointed Robert Young as Programme Officer. He is an impartial officer under the examiner’s direction and not an employee of the council.

We received the examiner's report (pdf, 82k) (opens new window)  on 10 July 2012. The report recommended that we approve the CIL charging schedule.

Our Examination Library (pdf, 45k) (opens new window)  is a list of documents that we referred to when preparing the Draft Charging Schedule.

Evidence

We sent documents to the Planning Inspectorate to support our proposal to introduce CIL:

• Draft Charging Schedule: sets out our reasons for introducing CIL and our CIL rates
• statement of representations procedure (pdf, 472k) (opens new window) : sets out the process for making a representation on the Draft Charging Schedule
• statement of representations received (pdf, 88k) (opens new window) : sets out the number of representations we received and summarises the issues raised
• copies of representations we received: representation from Savills (pdf, 1.9MB) (opens new window) and all other representations (pdf, 6.1MB) (opens new window)
• development plan: Policy BCS11 of our Core Strategy (pdf, 5.5MB) (opens new window)  makes it clear that we intend to introduce a CIL
• infrastructure delivery programme (pdf, 603k) (opens new window) : sets out the infrastructure we need to support growth in Bristol
• funding gap analysis (pdf, 74k) (opens new window) : has more detail about the schemes in the infrastructure schedule and notes a gap between costs of these schemes and available funding
• CIL viability study (pdf, 1.7MB) (opens new window) : carried out by independent consultants BNP Paribas Real Estate
• Cabinet report about CIL: seeking approval to publish and consult on the Draft Charging Schedule
• draft Regulation 123 list (pdf, 219k) (opens new window) (pdf, 219k) (opens new window) : lists infrastructure that we would be likely to spend CIL on
• Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule (pdf, 435k) (opens new window)
• comments on Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule (pdf, 212k) (opens new window) : comments and our responses
• draft revision to our planning obligations  (pdf, 170k) (opens new window)
• our responses to representations (pdf, 151k) (opens new window) to the Draft Charging Schedule
• a paper setting out how we complied with legislation and regulations (pdf, 97k) (opens new window)
• position statement from GVA about rates for student accommodation (pdf, 53k) (opens new window)
• our response to the GVA statement and examiner’s questions about student accommodation and hotel rates  (pdf, 61k) (opens new window)
• position statement from Savills about rates for residential properties (pdf, 164k) (opens new window)
• our response to the Savills statement and examiner’s questions about rates for residential properties  (pdf, 120k) (opens new window)