New Government guidance on neighbourhood planning encourages principal councils to pass on higher Community Infrastructure Levy share to parish councils and others where neighbourhood plan referendums have been postponed due to Coronavirus Recognising that the postponement of neighbourhood plan referendums ‘due to COVID-19, may have an impact on the level of neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy
As part of the Coronavirus Act (2020) the government has introduced necessary changes to neighbourhood planning. Firstly, no neighbourhood planning referendums (or indeed any election or referendum) can take place until 6 May 2021. The Government has stated that this will be kept under review and may be amended or revoked in response to changing
The Government has announced that it does not propose to set ‘referendum principles’ for town and parish councils in England for 2020/21. However the Government ‘remains concerned about the pressure placed on taxpayers from thousands of town and parish councils across England’ and expects them to exercise ‘even greater restraint’ for 2020/21. The Government will
