BUDE-Stratton Town Council has provided a response to Cornwall Council in regards to the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) consultation.

At the meeting of full council on Thursday evening, October 4, councillors were required to provide a response to the consultation for Cornwall Council’s CIL plans. The authority’s CIL charging schedule was adopted on July 10, commencing from January 1, 2019. The CIL will allow ‘local authorities to raise funds from new building projects undertaken in their area, and is governed by the CIL Regulations 2010’.

Councillors were asked to consider the use of the CIL for Bude.

The CIL is a mechanism being put in place by Cornwall Council as the local planning authority, whereby developers of larger scale projects are required to make financial contributions to help provide the infrastructure to support the buildings and communities being established.

Councillors worked through the consultation document issued by Cornwall Council to convey their own views on how decisions are to be made on the spending of the money raised through this scheme. The general theme of the answers was for decisions to be made locally rather than in Truro. The consultation response has now been made by the council.