Nick Huxtable

This is Babergh. Mid Suffolk. The amount is enough to mess up our plans but not enough to throw John Thaw at them. Just very galling as l believe they’re wrong.

That seems to be the jist of it. Ours isn’t for sale yet but maybe now as we need to pay the mortgage off. Just seems morally wrong to me.

Have a property that includes a six story mill , no sails, a barn and a fallen down brick building. Put in for planning for five things on one application. One of which was to do up the tower to get it off the building at risk register. Another to convert the fallen building and sell as a self build to pay off the mortgage we had to get to repair the mill tower. Four of the five were zero rated for CIL. We started the mill repair and the heritage department of the council were thrilled. Also put in a drive so our car wasn’t in the way of the ‘plot’. Next we sell the plot with all forms filled in to transfer CIL liability to a self builder. In come the council and demand all the CIL payment in one go as we’d started one part of the permission so they said we’d started it all even though we hadn’t started the only CIL liable part. Be careful as they’ll have you if they can. Don’t know if we have any redress. Put it out here as a warning.