Planning
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Community Infrastructure Levy
What can the Community Infrastructure Levy be spent on?
The levy can be used to fund a wide range of infrastructure, including transport, flood defences, schools, hospitals, and other health and social care facilities (for further details, see section 216(2) of the Planning Act 2008, and regulation 59, as amended by the 2012 and 2013 Regulations). This definition allows the levy to be used to fund a very broad range of facilities such as play areas, open spaces, parks and green spaces, cultural and sports facilities, healthcare facilities, academies and free schools, district heating schemes and police stations and other community safety facilities. This flexibility gives local areas the opportunity to choose what infrastructure they need to deliver their relevant plan (the Development Plan and the London Plan in London). Charging authorities may not use the levy to fund affordable housing.
Local authorities must spend the levy on infrastructure needed to support the development of their area, and they will decide what infrastructure is needed.
The levy can be used to increase the capacity of existing infrastructure or to repair failing existing infrastructure, if that is necessary to support development.
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Langham Village Design Statement
The Langham Village Design Statement was prepared by a group of Langham residents, with the support of the Parish Council, Rutland County Council, the Annual Parish Meeting, many local societies and the Leicestershire and Rutland Rural Community Council.
There is strong representation of the views of local residents, which were sought at every stage in exhibitions and workshops, and from over fifty responses to a survey circulated to every house in the village. The first draft and its guide lines were presented at a further exhibition in November 2001 and the responses that we received were consolidated and incorporated into the final publication.
Our intention has been to provide informed and impartial guidance, based on the views of as broad a cross-section of the local community as possible, on those aspects of the local environment that should be considered by people whose proposals would affect it.
We have not sought unanimity. Langham's population is as diverse as its architecture; we would not want to change that.
Read the Langham in Rutland Village Design Statement
In 2012 it was decided to create a new Neighbourhood Plan to reinforce the VDS.
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The Reference Guide to Planning Applications produced by the Langham Parish Council Planning Committee and distributed to all households in Langham in August 2019 is now available to download as a PDF document.
