CIL Phasing - including enabling infrastructure - Public forum - Planning Advisory Service (PAS)

Hi.

Has anyone had experience with the phasing of CIL liable developments where work is first required to deliver enabling infrastructure?

Context: We have a large residential site where we plan to phase delivery of the development. The developers first need to undertake a range of works to the site infrastructure in order to enable the development. The infrastructure requirements run across the whole of the site. As commencement is triggered by any material operations on the land, we want to avoid the infrastructure works triggering a commencement across all the phases, as this may put the site at risk due to viability.

We think our options are:

a) to phase the development so the enabling works are identified as a separate phase of development, and do not trigger commencement of the other chargeable phases; or

b) to treat it as a hybrid application - with the enabling infrastructure dealt with as full p/p and the residential development treated as outline

Has anyone had experience of phasing a development where enabling infrastructure works are required first?

Is anyone able to share an example of how phasing has been clearly stated in the planning permission?

Thanks.