2025 RICS community infrastructure levy Index published

BCIS has published the updated RICS Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Index for 2025, showing a 2.6% rise compared with the previous year.

The index, which is used for updating rates in CIL schedules, will apply to charges calculated from 1 January 2025.

Karl Horton, chief data officer at BCIS, said: ‘The CIL charge, which can be levied by local authorities on new developments in their area, is an important tool to help deliver the infrastructure needed to support these schemes.

‘In most cases, the amount of levy that is payable is calculated by multiplying the gross internal area by the rate for a particular development type. The rates are set out in the relevant charging schedule published by the authority.

‘Collecting authorities must also apply an index of inflation to keep the levy rate responsive to market conditions, hence the RICS CIL Index is based on an average taken from the BCIS All-in Tender Price Index.’

The index for a year is the average of the BCIS All-in TPI for the first three quarters of the previous year and the last quarter of the year before that.

BCIS TPI is available to subscribers of BCIS CapX alongside benchmark £/m2 costs for buildings, which can form the basis of charging schedules and viability studies.

The index is published on the fourth Monday in October each year and is not normally subject to revision.

More information on the updated Community Infrastructure Levy index, including figures for previous years is available here.

Further information on the ‘Community Infrastructure Levy (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019’ and related Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government guidance is available here.

The RICS CIL index is prepared, maintained and published by BCIS.

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