The Department told us it was introducing a new system for plan-making that should be more streamlined, and would involve statutory timelines. Its aim would be for local authorities to be able to complete a plan in 30 months. The Department also told us it was giving additional support to those local authorities who had not started a plan, and in the future it would expect local authorities to feel under departmental pressure to produce a plan. It expressed a hope that a much higher number of local authorities would have an up-to-date plan by the end of the Parliament.19 The plan making system is far too complicated. The government should examine how it could be simplified, requiring less detailed predictive information that may be inaccurate. This change could considerably speed up the local plan making and revision, and increase the number of local authorities able to provide a plan. The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)