Last month, we highlighted a community infrastructure levy (CIL) appeal decision that turned on the CIL indexation allowance where there has been an outline planning consent and then a consent dealing with what are referred to as reserved maters at a later date. That article can be viewed here. The question was whether the indexation should apply to relevant CIL charging schedule rate as at the grant of the outline planning consent or at the date of the reserved matters approval. The appeal decision confirmed that it was the former.
Planning Practice Guidance was updated last Wednesday, 17 June, to add a paragraph headed “How is indexation applied to outline permissions?” to deal with this point. The updated guidance can be viewed here and paragraph 105a.
