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ARTICLE · 04 SEPTEMBER 2026

CIL Commencement And Liability

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The Community Infrastructure Levy has never been short of critics, nor complications. It briefly looked as though its time was up, with the proposed new Infrastructure Levy, promising a cleaner, simpler system.

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Mark Harnett
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Miles Crawford

Introduction

The Community Infrastructure Levy has never been short of critics, nor complications. It briefly looked as though its time was up, with the proposed new Infrastructure Levy, promising a cleaner, simpler system. However, the IL was scrapped when the current government came to power, CIL survived and it remains firmly embedded in the planning landscape. Understanding and navigating the CIL regime competently is therefore an essential skill for planning and property practitioners. As such, we will set out a series of articles looking at the basics of CIL, recent appeal cases, pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Read the previous article in our series here: CIL and Prior Approval.

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