We implement CIL on 1st June and we have two customers who want to amend plans which are currently under construction. The case officers have said that they need to apply for full consent (revised scheme), as the changes are too significant to be made under S73. In one of the cases the customer has half built a house, is struggling financially to finish and now wants to finish it as a bungalow. In the other case the changes reduce the upper floor (to save £15k on the build cost). Because they are making full applications and creating a new consent – and there is no floorspace in lawful use – it follows that we should charge CIL on the entire floorspace for these schemes. Has anyone come across cases like this during implementation? Following on from this, if we had implemented earlier – both of these customers would already have paid the CIL for their proposed floorspace. I can’t see that we would charge twice for creation of the same floorspace – but does it tell us anywhere in the regs that we don’t?
