Overview

With the UK set for another year of economic uncertainty in 2012, developers and landowners will again be looking for alternative ways to make development viable.

Now that the first Community Infrastructure Levy 'Charging Schedules' is in place, and with more to follow shortly, it appears in practice that viability assessments will become even more important for the negotiation of any non-CIL-related contributions requested; such as affordable housing.

This briefing provides details on a recent Secretary of State decision which provides some scope for arguing that the concept of ‘enabling development' should also be added to the viability mix for certain schemes.

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