Community infrastructure levy
Publication Year
2026
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on Community Infrastructure Levy, detailing how it operates. Covers: charging schedules and rates; relief and exemptions; calculating the levy liability; collecting the levy; spending the levy; appeals; other developer contributions; monitoring and reporting on CIL and planning obligations; subsidy control; forms and templates.
Document History
Last updated: 17 June 2026 - Added paragraph 105a on how indexation (specifically "Ip") applies to outline planning permissions. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/community-infrastructure-levy and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 12 June 2014.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
