PART 6OBLIGATIONS RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF LAND
CHAPTER 2COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE LEVY
The levy
172Charging for development
(1)
CIL regulations must provide that a charging authority may charge CIL in respect of chargeable development in its area.
(2)
In this Chapter “chargeable development” means—
(a)
anything done for the purpose of creating a new building,
(b)
anything done to or in respect of an existing building, or
(c)
any change in the use of an existing building or part of a building.
(3)
CIL regulations may provide for—
(a)
works or changes in use of a kind specified in the regulations not to be treated as chargeable development;
(b)
the creation of, or anything done to or in respect of, a structure of a kind specified in the regulations to be treated as chargeable development.
(4)
A planning authority is the charging authority for its area.
(5)
CIL regulations may provide for a county council or county borough council to be the charging authority for any part of its area for which a National Park Authority or a joint planning board is the planning authority.