Purbeck District Council submitted the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Charging Schedule for examination in July 2013. The examiner's hearing started on 8 October 2013 in the Council Chamber at Westport House, Wareham.
The council prepared the submission version of the CIL Charging Schedule July 2013 following a series of consultations. This webpage will be updated with further details as information becomes available. You are advised to check this webpage regularly for updates.
The Examiner has published his report - Report on the examination of the draft Purbeck District Council Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule - January 2014
The Hearing
- Examiner's Hearing: Timetable of Issues for Examination - version 3 13/09/13
- Examiner's Hearing: Key matters and issues discussion paper
- Examiner's Hearing: list of attendees
The hearing has been postponed to allow the Council to gather further evidence of the viability of specific schemes and consult with participants of the Examination.
Additional Viability Testing
The Council has completed the additional viability testing which is summarised in the consultation paper below together with the toolkits for real site examples:
- Additional Viability Tests Consultation Paper
- Bere Regis settlement extension viability
- Blandford Road, Upton
- Dorchester Road, Upton Viability
- Dorchester Road, Wool viability
- Gilbert Road, Swanage Viability
- Huntick Road, Lytchett Matravers Viability
- Policeman's Lane settlement extension, Upton Viability
- Poultry Farm, Harmans Cross
- Pound Lane, Wareham Viability
- Prospect Farm, Swanage
- Station Cottages, Moreton Viability
- Worgret Road settlement extension, Wareham Viability
NB: After commencing consultation on the worked examples, the Council has spotted some errors requiring explanation.
The Council's affordable housing policy has a threshold of 2 net dwellings on site. Four of the sites tested (1,3,9 and 11) had existing dwellings on before development. When carrying out the original tests on these sites we omitted to credit the sites with 1 dwelling before calculating the amount of affordable housing required to meet the policy requirement. We have re-tested these sites, crediting the sites with 1 market dwelling and re-calculating the CIL contribution. This has resulted in a slight increase in residual value for each site, as they would provide less affordable housing.
There is a drop in CIL from site 3 (Gilbert Road, Swanage) after crediting the site with an existing dwelling and adjusting flat sizes to match those listed in the assumptions. Whilst we had detail of flat sizes, it was not possible to predict which would have been affordable so we opted to use default flat sizes.
- Addendum to additional viability testing for Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule
- Amended Gilbert Road, Swanage
- Amended Poultry Farm, Harman's Cross
The following comments were received:
- 2509 Natural England CIL extra viability response
- 2510 Environment Agency CIL extra viability response
- 2541 South West Harp CIL extra viability response
- 3171 Wyatt Homes CIL extra viability response
- 6389 Natural England Statutory CIL extra viability response
Purbeck District Council's response to the comments:
- Statement of Representations on Additional Site Viability Testing - January 2014
- Appendix 1 Respondents comments pre-modelling - October 2013
- Appendix 2 Additional viability testing on sites comments and responses
- Appendix 2a Land Financing All Sites
- Appendix 2b Worgret Road - Cash Flow
All comments have been passed to the Examiner who will decide whether to hold another hearing or deal with written representations. Following this the Examiner will prepare his report.
Examiner Details
Mike Fox BA (Hons), Dip TP, MRTPI, of the Planning Inspectorate, has been appointed as Examiner. All correspondence for the Examiner should be addressed the Programme Officer.
The Examiner has produced Community Infrastructure Levy Schedule examination briefing notes which includes the procedure of hearing.
Programme Office
Lida Mutton
Programme Officer - Purbeck CIL Examination
Planning and Community Services Section
Purbeck District Council
Westport House
Worgret Road
Wareham
Dorset, BH20 4PP
Tel: 01929 557273
E-mail: programmeofficer@purbeck-dc.gov.uk
Examination library of documents
Hard copies can be viewed at the examination library at the council offices. Please contact the Programme Officer to make an appointment. Local libraries have been issued with a CD of the submission and supporting documents.
The CIL Examination Library provides weblinks to all the documents submitted as part of the examination process including:
- the updated Purbeck Transportation Strategy - August 2012 update (CD11) and Community Infrastructure Levy - Projected Income and Priorities for Spending (CD40)
- SD07 Statement of representations for statement of modifications
- SD08 Full set of representations for statement of modifications
- CD41 CIL Instalment Policy 2013
- CD42 Cumulative impacts of regulation on house builders and landowners - DCLG research paper 2011
Post Hearing documents (including those circulated at the hearing)
Initial questions from the Examiner to the Council and the Council's response:
- Examiner's Initial questions with responses from Purbeck District Council
- Examiner's Initial questions - Appendix for answers
Additional questions from the Examiner to the Council:
Hearing Statements:
- 2461 Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle Parish Council Hearing Statement - September 2013
- 2607 McCarthy & Stone and Churchill Retirement Joint Hearing Statement - August 2013
- 3171 Wyatt Homes Hearing Statement - September 2013
- 6389 Natural England Hearing Statement - October 2013
- Purbeck District Council - Issue 1 statement
- Purbeck District Council - Issue 2 statement
- Purbeck District Council - Issue 3 statement
- Purbeck District Council - Issue 3 Appendix 1 - Swanage 2 bedroom flats
- Purbeck District Council - Issue 3 Appendix 2- Comparison of residual value for flats in Swanage
- Purbeck District Council - Issue 4 statement