The Council launched a consultation on the PDCS on Friday. It has proposed that residential developments within Ripon City, which comprises the Wards of Ripon Spa, Ripon Minster and Ripon Moorside, will be subject to a rate of £45 per sq m. Residential developments across the rest of the District have been set a proposed rate of £85 per sq m.
The Council's viability study said it had tested the viability of housing developments on sites of 1 hectare and a 5 hectare parcel of an urban extension site as these reflected the type of sites likely to come forward in Harrogate over its local plan period.
It said that the sales values within the three Ripon wards of Spa, Minster and Moorside were consistently lower than elsewhere and therefore recommended a Ripon charging zone with a lower rate than elsewhere in the Borough.
For supermarkets, the Council has proposed to set a borough-wide CIL rate of £200 per sq m, with the rate for retail warehouses set at £120 per sq m. The viability assessment said it had found that those were the only types of non-residential developments which were "comfortably viable" as speculative developments.
All other chargeable development is proposed to be subject to a rate of £10 per sq m, with the exception of public and institutional facilities including education, health, community and emergency services. A nil rate levy is proposed to apply to these developments.
The consultation will be open for comments until 21 June. The Council said it expects to adopt CIL in the summer next year.
