Developers hit out at proposals that offer no guarantee of built infrastructure in return for contributions. One of the architects of the Milton Keynes roof tariff has criticised government plans for a local development levy to pay for infrastructure, which is based on the Milton Keynes example. Roger Humber, the strategic policy adviser to the House Builders Association, and a former chair of landowner consortium Milton Keynes Forward, said the government’s proposals did not offer guarantees that the infrastructure developers helped pay for would be built. A document published this week by the communities department giving details of the proposed Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) did not explain how developers could ensure that their contributions were spent.

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08 August 2008
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