The High Court has rejected a hospital trust’s request for a judicial review of three councils’ refusal to make a developer pay nearly £2m to offset increased demand for services.
Proposals to give local authorities flexibility on how they spend levies charged on development projects could give councils the “easy option” to reduce local investment, MPs have warned.
Proposals to abolish section 106 charges in favour of a new infrastructure tax could disincentivise investment in poorer regions, working against 'levelling up', according to experts....