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How are you getting on?

I'm still around

Unfortunately we lost our appeal and had to pay just short of £25,000.00 by the time they added interest. I had evidence against our local authority showing that they were not be consistent on who they were informing about the CIL charge, had copies of letters etc and we still lost. My advice would be start making some payments otherwise the interest will get out of hand, our case originally with £20k with interest it was just short of £25k. Good luck and please let me know how you get on, as I am hoping one day someone will find that there is some way of reclaiming.

Thank you all for your reply's, we are now awaiting an answer from the Ombudsman which hopefully should be any day now. Yesterday I received a call from the Council advising that they would be visiting my property today and issuing a stop notice. Today I come home from work to find said "stop notice warning" attached to a piece of wood hammered into my front garden next to the path with all our details on and the fact that we are in debt to the council for the amount above. Two copies were also put through my letter box, an email was also sent which advised the time the notice was served where it was placed and it also stated that they identified themselves to my neighbour and they quoted his house number!!! So I am now livid as all my neighbours will now know my business plus any passers by, surely this breaches my data protection? Please can anyone advise if I need to leave this notice out as it's unclear if it needs to be on full display to the world and it wife, I am worried if I remove it we will incur more fines?

We have found two cases where they have not validated the planning permission because the same forms were not submitted, we have ask why we did not receive the same duty of care but have not really had an answer to this question, it is well documented that there are problems within this area of CIL. I just don't understand how our application has been treated so differently. How am I to know that a form has not been received if I am not told?

Yes I did but have put him on hold while I try and appeal the decision with the local authority

Does anyone have any knowledge on this please, just about to go to a stage three appeal and could really do with some help as I am sinking...

Hello everyone hope life is good for you all

Has anyone had any dealing with Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)?? We have received a demand for a Community Infrastructure Levy for the sum of £23187.50 which has come as a great shock to us. We were not aware of any new procedure in dealing with this CIL charge and it is a genuine oversight on our part that we did not complete the necessary forms or notify you of the commencement date of the build. We are not builders or property developers and due to this we had employed an agent to act on our behalf with matters relating to our planning application and build. It is not until now that we we aware of this new procedure and I would like to add it still seems to be very complicated. Our planning application was submitted by our agent with the required forms notifying the Council that we were building the extension for our own use and do not intend moving within the foreseeable future, he did advised us that there would be a CIL charge but we would be exempt, at this stage we had no reason as to question him as he is the expert! Once planning was approved we received a letter advising of a CIL charge which was approximately £20000.00 we called our agent and advised him of this and said that if we had to pay this sum of money we would not be starting the extension, his response was that we were exempt as it was for our own use but we did have to live in the property for three years once completed. I advised our agent in January this year (2016) that we were intending to commence work early March and requested that he submit the necessary paperwork the council, he advised that he was just finishing it and would send it in the following day. We received a Invoice for £518.00 from the council which we duly paid, our work started quite a bit later that we had intended due to being let down by builders and weather conditions. Our footing was poured on the 7th of June 2016 and so far we have had two inspections of the work from the Council. To us the lay person this is what was necessary and we were not aware that we were doing anything wrong in this procedure. The works are still being carried and we are a long way from being finished. Currently the extension being constructed is not in a position to be occupied and indeed part of the existing property is not suitable for occupation either, and we currently have no heating not a good position to be in with the weather due to change at any time!. We were lead to believe that as this extension is for our own use we would be granted an exemption to payment of this CIL. The situation has not changed and the payment of over £20,000 to the Council does not appear to comply with the spirit of the Governments intention in setting up the Community Infrastructure Levy. We were lead to believe that the rules specifically allow house extensions for the owners own use to be exempt from CIL and our situation has not changed since our planning application was submitted. We understand now from our conversation that this is also not a given fact. We are going to be seeking some legal advice on this matter in the next few days, and will also make an attempt to complete the complicated appeal form relating to the CIL charge now that I know where to find them, as the demand that we received relating to this matter and the instructions on how to appeal are not clear, in fact my original appeal letter was sent to the wrong place as the instructions advising how to appeal advised appealing via the portal!! (it never said which portal or provided a link on how to get there) We do have a paper trail of correspondance between ourselves and our agent which will confirm what we have mentioned above. Please can anyone give me some guidance on this matter, I am guessing I will need to make a claim for negligence against the agent? the authority have offered a payment plan which is currently 50% of the demand and the final 50% being paid 60 days later but they said that they could possibly spread this over 12 months this equates to over £1600 per month I cannot possibly paid that amount I work part time 24 hours a week in retail and my husbands wages are all accounted for in our daily cost of living.

Just to update you I did take this to tribunal and have WON my appeal.

I will also add that the exit is the same place as the entrance and it is the only entrance and exit points in this car park for vehicles.

Here is a aerial view of the area I have marked where the sign that I saw and the entrance and exit I used with a X the area marked Y are the position that the council say the signs were placed at, which is past the entrance of the car park I used, please see the second picture that I provided in the set of three you cannot see the signs, also the carpark they are claiming was free on that day is their staff car park and not one that is used on a daily basis for general public pay and display.

Firstly thank you for your reply regarding the NTO, I only received it last week! Photos are attached. The night time photos are mine the daylight photo is the evidence the council provided me telling me there was signs, as you can see from the middle photo there is no change of seeing these signs if traffic is on the highway.