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The government appears set to row back on radical proposals set out last summer to ditch the current Section 106 system in favour of a flat-rate infrastructure levy across England.

In comments to an online event hosted by the Campaign to Protect Rural England, housing ministry chief planner Joanna Averley said the government will instead proceed incredibly carefully in bringing in any reforms. She said it was very aware of the micro nature of landscapes and housing markets in England.

Her comments follow widespread criticism that the governments proposals to replace the system of developer contributions from Section 106 agreements and the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) with a new flat-rate levy risk stalling developments on brownfield sites and jeopardising the delivery of affordable housing.

Averley (pictured, left) said developers had also sent a very strong message to government that they valued the direct link provided by Section 106 agreements between developments and the local communities in which they take place.

Despite the bold proposals outlined in last Augusts planning white paper, Averley said the government was only at the start of thinking through how to reform the system of developer contributions. Any system would take account of the unique circumstances of individual communities, she added.

She said: In changing any form of what is basically development taxation, we need to do that incredibly carefully, we need to make sure that there arent consequences that arent anticipated.

We are very aware, as people have said, that the English landscape is very unique and very micro in its character, and that goes for housing market and property values.

You can have very distinct conditions within a matter of miles, she added, promising that these dynamics would be thought through.

She said a lot of developers had told the government that the connectedness of Section 106 and CIL to the local community is something that they value, and added that we need to understand how that will be reflected in any new system.

Critics of last summers proposals had suggested that proposals for a flat-rate financial contribution by developers to local infrastructure would simply serve to make more marginal brownfield sites, or those with significant infrastructure requirements, unviable, pushing development on to green fields.

Consultant Roger Hepher, founder of HGH Consulting, said he now expected the government to ditch its idealistic and inadequately thought through plans to reform developer contributions. He said the government was now more likely to amend the existing CIL regime.

This could be quite attractive from the industrys point of view - CIL hasnt been an unmitigated success, but at least it is accepted and generally understood, he said.

The government has said it will publish a response in the spring to its own consultation, setting out how it intends to proceed with its reforms, ahead of legislation in the autumn.

The comments came as a group of environmental charities, led by the CPRE, published an alternative vision for planning which called on the government to row back on plans to remove powers to determine individual planning applications from new designated growth zones.

Tom Fyans, deputy chief executive of the CPRE, said the government needed to create a planning system that put people, and tackling the climate and ecological emergencies, at its heart.

We all deserve a home we can genuinely afford to live in, and to have a say in shaping the communities around us. But, as things stand under the governments current proposals, the opportunity to influence what happens and where in our communities would be halved.

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