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Letter: There Is Something Unjust in the Way CIL Is Applied

Published on: 4 Feb, 2025
Updated on: 4 Feb, 2025

From Roger Kendall

In response to: Council Agrees to Review Godalming Couple’s £70k CIL Charge

We are the owners of a site on which we would like to build some flats. However taking into account the quoted costs of the construction and expected sale price, given the property’s position, in between a busy road, railway and garage, viability is questionable

The flats would replace an older building and any Community Infrastructure Levy or “CIL” should take the size of the old building into account.

We wanted to appeal against the CIL amount demanded of £480,000 but we were told that there was no appeal.

Later when we realized that the old building’s square footage should have been taken into account to reduced the CIL we were told that the time allowed for an appeal had run out. Only 30 days is allowed from the date of the planning being passed – with no exception.

There is something dishonest and unjust in CIL in principle and the way it is applied. The flats are impossible to build with such a CIL hanging over them so the ground lies idle.

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