Part 13: General Schedule 12: Infrastructure Levy Part 10A, Section 204Q: Infrastructure delivery strategy Effect
Subsection (1) provides a new duty on IL charging authorities to prepare and publish an infrastructure delivery strategy for its area. This document will set out the authority’s approach to infrastructure planning and will include a strategic plan for how IL money will be spent.
	Subsection (2)(a) sets out the requirement for infrastructure delivery strategies to include the strategic plans for how IL will be spent. Subsection (2)(b) provides powers for regulations to set out other information that infrastructure delivery strategies must contain.
	Subsection (3) elaborates on the kind of information that can be provided for through IL regulations, in particular, the requirement for a charging authority to set out its plans for the improvement, replacement, operation and maintenance of infrastructure.
	Subsection (4) enables charging authorities to revise or replace their infrastructure delivery strategy with a new one at any time. Subsection (5) stipulates that charging authorities must prepare and publish a replacement or revision of the IDS if it is necessary or expedient as a result of a revision or replacement of a charging schedule. For example, if there are major changes to the sites they have selected in their local plan.
	The requirement for IL regulations to provide for the independent examination of infrastructure delivery strategies is set out in subsection (6). An examination is the process by which an infrastructure delivery strategy will be approved. Subsection (7) provides that regulations must make provision for the examination of an infrastructure delivery strategy to be combined with the examination of either a charging schedule or a local plan.
	Subsection (8) gives examples of what provisions may be set out in regulations for the examination of an infrastructure delivery strategy, including details about the examiner, the process of examination and any circumstances in which an examination would not be required.
	Subsection (9) requires that charging authorities have regard to Secretary of State guidance on infrastructure delivery strategies.
	Subsection (10) enables IL regulations to provide that another public authority can carry out a function under this section, such as preparing and publishing an infrastructure delivery strategy in place of, or on behalf of, a charging authority. This would enable development corporations to prepare an infrastructure delivery strategy.
	Subsection (11) sets out what must be provided for in IL regulations, including the form and content of an infrastructure delivery strategy, how it should be published, any procedures that should be followed for its preparation, revision or replacement and who should be consulted as part of the process.
	Subsection (12) gives examples of further provision that may be made in IL regulations – such as the timings associated with preparation, replacement or revision of an infrastructure delivery strategy and how long it would be valid for; what evidence is needed to prepare the document, and the preparation of joint infrastructure delivery strategies.
Example (1): Contents of an infrastructure delivery strategy
Subsection (2)(a) requires that the infrastructure delivery strategy must set out the strategic plans for the application of IL. Subsection (11)(a) requires that IL regulations must make provision about the form and content of an infrastructure delivery strategy, including a strategic spending plan, setting out the high-level priorities for the charging authority in spending its IL.
Example (2): Examination of an infrastructure delivery strategy
Subsection (8) requires the regulations to make provision regarding what can be considered as part of an examination of an infrastructure delivery strategy. Under (8)(b) it is envisioned that regulations will seek a streamlined process, in which the examiner will test whether a charging authority has had regard to national policy and consulted with the correct parties.