b'may be collected. Levy rates will be set in consultation with local communities and developers and will provide developers with much more certainty up front about how much money they will be expected to contribute. Local authorities are required to spend the levys funds on the infrastructure needed to support the development of their area and they can decide what infrastructure is needed. The levy is intended to focus on the provision of new infrastructure and should not be used to remedy pre-existing deficiencies in infrastructure provision unless those deficiencies will be made more severe by new development. The levy can be used to increase the capacity of existing infrastructure or to repair failing existing infrastructure, if that is necessary to support development. Using Chapter 2 of Part 6 of the Localism Act 2011, the Government requires charging authorities to allocate a meaningful proportion of levy revenues raised in each neighbourhood back to that neighbourhood. This will ensure that where a neighbourhood bears the brunt of a new development, it receives sufficient money to help it manage those impacts. It complements the introduction of other powerful new incentives for local authorities that will ensure that local areas benefit from development they welcome. Charging authorities will be able to use funds from the levy to recover the costs of administering the levy, with the regulations permitting them to use up to 5% of their total receipts on administrative expenses to ensure that the overwhelming majority of revenue from the levy is directed towards infrastructure provision. Where a collecting authority has been appointed to collect a charging authoritys levy, as will be the case in London where the boroughs collect the Mayors levy, the collecting authority may keep up to 4% of the revenue from the levy to fund their administrative costs, with the remainder available to the charging authority up to the 5% ceiling. Charging authorities should normally implement the levy on the basis of an up-to-date development plan or the London plan for the Mayors levy. A charging authority may use a draft plan if they are planning a joint examination of their core strategy or local development plan and their CIL charging schedule. Charging authorities wishing to charge the levy must produce a charging schedule setting out the levys rates in their area. Charging schedules form part of the local authoritys local development framework in England, sitting alongside the local development plan in Wales and the London plan in the case of the Mayors levy.Charging authorities must consult local communities and stakeholders on their proposed rates for the levy in a preliminary draft of the charging schedule. Then, before being examined, a draft charging schedule must be formally published for representations for a period of at least four weeks. The 2014 Regulations made a number of changes to the CIL regime. Key changes included amendments to allow authorities to charge CIL at differential rates according to the locality and the type of development proposed, and the inclusion of a provision to allow infrastructure to be provided in payment in kind for CIL. At the time the levy was introduced there were concerns that the charges being levied were higher than previous charges under section 106 agreements which could be seen as a barrier to 154'