Potential to get small scale planning development charges reduced.

THE overall cost of small scale rural development can be reduced if county councils are taken to task over the imposition of `section 106 agreements.'

Under this section of planning authorisation, a landowner could be paying between #8,000-#10,000 for the development of just one property.

However, the CLA in the West Midlands, unhappy with the way Herefordshire county council sought to raise funds from the implementation of `section 106', lobbied the council to suspend the charge.

This it did, giving landowners a …