Cash-strapped local government has been eyeing the Community Infrastructure Levy with considerable interest.  Put simply, CIL will allow local authorities to impose a levy on developers to fund infrastructure projects around the local area.  It is an additional revenue stream to Section 106.

One of the main attractions of CIL is that, unlike Section 106, the infrastructure funded does not need to relate directly to a particular development.  CIL from a development in the north of a local authority area could, for instance, be used to fund a link road in the south.