Brent Council has been praising itself for funding small scale community projects through the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). In one sense that is all very well. I am sure that these projects all do good things, but it does rather ignore the more important big spend stuff that only a Council can provide such as funding the big adult social care services, the child protection care, transport spending, the environmental services and so on. These are where the vast majority of Council residents benefit from the Council, so why ignore them?
It also seem strange to single one particular tax, the Community Infrastructure Levy, out of all the ways the Council is funded. It is all very well, but it does not compensate for the vast cuts the Council continues to suffer in terms of central government grant. Is it because some people seem to feel that the CIL is in some sense not really taxpayers' money?
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