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Developers and housebuilders have hailed final government plans for a levy on development a 鈥渟ignificant breakthrough.鈥�

The statutory regulations for the Community Infrastructure Levy, laid down this week exempts developers from paying the levy on affordable housing and allows councils to borrow to pay for infrastructure up front in lieu of future CIL revenues.

It also gives councils the power to make individual developments exempt entirely from the levy if the levy was in danger of making a specific development unviable. All of these provisions were not contained in earlier drafts of the regulation.

A senior development source said: 鈥淚n isolation these are all significant changes but together they鈥檙e really helpful. It鈥檚 a relief as earlier in the process the government was heading off in totally the wrong direction on this.鈥�

In isolation these are all significant changes but together they鈥檙e really helpful

The CIL is designed as a locally-set tariff on development to pay for the infrastructure needed to support it, and replaced previous government plans for a Planning Gain Supplement, dropped in 2007.

A consortium including the Home Builders鈥� Federation, the Local Government Association and the British Property Federation welcomed the changes.

Liz Peace, chief executive of the BPF, said: 鈥淲e have all worked extremely hard with the government to steer the regulations in the right direction.鈥�