Fees Guidance Notes

Town and Country Planning (Fees for applications and deemed applications) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Scope of Fees:-
The Fees apply to:

• Applications for planning permission (including retrospective applications where development has already take place);
• Applications for approval of reserved matters pursuant to an outline planning permission;
• Applications for consent to display advertisements;
• Deemed application arising from enforcement appeals;
• Deemed applications arising from established use certificate appeals or called-in established use certificate applications;
• Local authority applications (deemed).
• Application for Certificate of Lawful use.

There are no fees for:

• Applications for listed building consents; applications for Conservation Area Consents;
• Applications for determinations under Section 64 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
• Applications for certificates of appropriate alternative developments;
• Applications to lop or fell trees subject to tree preservation orders;
• Applications for consents required by a condition attached to a full planning permission, nor to any attached to an outline permission if the conditions relates to anything other than a 'reserved matter' s defined in the Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1995 as amended.

Specific exemptions from fees are made for:
Disabled people

• Applications for planning permission to alter or extend an existing dwelling house or to carry out operations within the curtilage of an existing dwelling house if intended solely to improve access, safety, health and comfort for a disabled person whether living in the house or not yet in residence. (NB: the exemption does not apply to the construction of a new dwelling house);
• Applications relating solely to works to provide a means of access for disabled persons to a building to which the public are admitted
• (A disabled person is defined as being one to whom Section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 applies and a child who is disabled for the purpose of Part III of the Children Act 1989).

Permitted development and use class rights

• Applications for development where 'permitted rights' have been removed by a condition attached to a planning permission or by a direction under Article 4 of the General Development Order and for a change of use within a class of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 2005 where planning permission is required solely because the change is prohibited by a condition imposed on a previous grant of planning permission (Regulation 6).

Revised applications following refusal, withdrawal or non-determination

• One further application for the same character or description on the same site providing that it is made within 12 months of the decision on the earlier application or the appeal or, in the case of a withdrawn application, within 12 months of the making of the earlier one, or, in the case of an appeal against non determination, within 12 moths of the expiry of the 8 week period (13 weeks for Major Applications). The applicant may benefit from this exemption only once for any given site or part of that site and it is necessary that the appropriate fee was paid for the original application. NB: A minor change for example in the number of houses on a site would be eligible as would changes to the details of a building's appearance. Additional land may be included for revised access arrangements only.
• This exemption also applies to advertisement applications for the display of advertisements of the same description on the same site.

Revised applications following permission

• Following the grant of planning permission the same applicant may submit one further application for the same character or description of development as that permitted within 12 months of the grant of the permission and for the same site or part of it. Additional land can only be included for revising access arrangements.

Consolidation of permissions for mineral working

• Introduced to assist mineral developers who wish to bring their operations under a unified system of planning control and exemption only applies where the application is for a permission which is intended to consolidate one or more subsisting permissions and does not seek permission for development which is not authorised by one of those permissions.

To find out more about the fees for Planning Applications, follow the link below. 

• Planning Application Fees.