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Babergh District Council in Suffolk has opened consultation on a revised Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) draft charging schedule (DCS), proposing rates of up to £165 per square metre for residential developments.

The Council has proposed, in the revised DCS (6-page / 1.2 MB PDF), to divide the district into two charging zones for residential developments. In the 'Low Zone', which covers part of Sudbury, Great Cornard and Hadleigh town centre, residential developments of between one and 10 homes would be charged a rate of £125 per sq m and those with 11 or more homes would be charged £75 per sq m.

In the 'High Zone', which covers the rest of the district, a rate of £165 per sq m has been proposed for residential developments of between one and 10 homes. Those with 11 or more homes would attract a charge of £115 per sq m under the revised DCS.

A district-wide rate of £100 per sq m has been proposed for "wholly or mainly convenience retail" developments.

The revised DCS proposes a nil rate levy for all other uses and for all development within the strategic sites at Chilton Woods, east of Sudbury, Lady Lane, Hadleigh, Babergh Ipswich Fringe and the Brantham Regeneration Area.

The public consultation ends on 15 February. The Council said it expects CIL to be "brought into effect in summer April 2015".

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