Payment of fees
- Fees must be paid when the application is deposited/submitted.
- An application cannot be registered until the correct fee has been paid
Payment can be made by all major debit cards and credit cards (except American Express or Diners cards) when submitting an application online.
Please note we NO LONGER accept cheques or telephone payments.
BACS Payment
National Westminster Bank
275-277 High Street,
Hounslow,
TW3 1ZA
Full Company Name: London Borough of Hounslow
Account Name: LB Hounslow Main Account
Account No: 20364814
Sort Code: 60-11-18
IBAN: GB79NWBK60111820364814
SWIFT BIC: NWBKGB2L
Please email your remittance advice to:
Email: paybacs@hounslow.gov.uk and planningcomments@hounslow.gov.uk
See downloadale PDF version for the pre-application advice charges and fees 2024-2025
Service Provided |
Charge 2024-25 (£) |
General |
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Solicitors/Customer Inquiries - Per 30 minutes – or part thereof |
86.85 |
Trees and Hedges |
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Complaints - Arboriculturist fee |
1,004.51 |
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Tree Preservation Orders - An additional charge will be required for the associated plan |
81.14 |
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Plans (where permitted by Copyright Order 1989). A4 |
34.63 |
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High Hedges - Initial Payment |
692.53 |
Design Review Panel |
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Design Review Panel – Standard Review |
5,200.00 |
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Design Review Panel – Large Scale Review |
6,000.00 |
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Design Review Panel – Chair’s Review |
2,800.00 |
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Design Review Panel – Chair’s Fee (Per Day/ Half Day) |
720.00/ 360.00 |
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Design Review Panel – Panellist’s Fee (Per Day/ Half Day) |
480.00/ 240.00 |
Planning Application Advice |
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Weekly list of Planning Applications or Planning Decisions |
Available free online. |
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Returned / Invalid Application Charge |
64.00 |
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Planning Decision Notices/Enforcement notices/Appeal Decisions/Committee Reports/Delegated Reports & Legal Agreements Charge is for 10 pages & under – an additional £2.00 will be charged for each further 10 pages or part thereof per page if request made for paper copies |
Available Free online Paper copies - 34.63 + fee for additional pages |
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Planning Performance Agreements |
Bespoke Fees Apply |
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Pre-Application Advice - Development proposals at a concept stage |
4,917.42 |
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Pre - application Advice Category 1: Major Residential. 10 or more homes (no commercial element). |
£5637.44 for 10 new homes. An additional £63.34 for each additional home |
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Pre - application Advice Category 2: Buildings other than dwellings over 1,000sqm of gross floor space (no residential element). |
£5637.44 for 1000 sqm of floorspace. An additional £0.59 for each additional sqm |
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Pre-application Advice Category 3:
A mixture of Major Residential (Category 1) and Buildings other than dwellings (Category 2 or 5)
Or
A mixture of Buildings other than dwellings over 1000sqm (Category 2) and residential (Category 1 or 4)
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The total fee will be calculated from the relevant fee for each category proposed (Including category 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6) |
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Category 1-3 Single follow up meeting (one only) 75% of original fee - provided the advice/ meeting request is received within 6 months of the date of the Council’s written response (or if no response has been given by agreement, then 6 months from the date of the initial pre-application meeting) |
75% of original fee |
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Pre-application Advice, Category 4: Minor Residential. 1 or more homes, up to 9 homes. |
£927.90 for a new home. £257.40 for each additional home (Up to 9 homes) |
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Pre-application Advice, Category 5: Buildings other than dwellings with gross floorspace up to 999 sqm |
£927.90 for 0/ 1 sqm of floorspace. £2.45 for each additional sqm (Up to 999 sqm) |
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Pre-application Advice, Category 6: Mixture of Minor Residential and Buildings other than dwellings up to 999 sqm |
£927.90 for a new home. £257.40 for each additional home (Up to 9 homes) and £927.90 for 0/ 1 sqm of floorspace. £2.45 for each additional sqm (Up to 999 sqm) |
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Pre-application Advice, Category 7: Conversion of one house to flats |
927.90 |
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Pre-application Advice, Advice, Category 8: Conversion of one house to a HMO |
1,106.35 |
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Pre-application Advice, Category 9, Standalone advert hoardings over 5m2 and telecommunications masts |
1,716.71 |
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Pre-application Advice, Category 10a: Householder developments, including extensions, outbuildings, walls - written response only, no meeting |
311.44 |
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Pre-application Advice, Category 10b: Householder developments, including extensions, outbuildings, walls – written response and meeting |
425.90 |
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Pre-application Advice Category 10c: householder development including extensions, outbuildings, walls - with site visit |
587.04 |
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Pre - application Advice. Category 10d: Householder extension to listed building |
940.04 |
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Pre - application Advice. Category 11a: Listed Building - Minor Works (Minor, unobtrusive alterations to a Listed Building) |
826.87 |
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Pre-application Advice, Category 11b: Listed Buildings - Major Works (Major, substantive alterations to a Listed Building) |
1,483.18 |
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Category 4-11 Single follow up meeting (one only) |
75% of original fee |
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Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Assistant Director - Per hour |
571.39 |
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Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Head of Service - Per hour |
342.84 |
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Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Manager/Section Head - Per hour |
149.71 |
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Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Principal/Senior - Per hour |
121.14 |
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Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Planning Officer and CIL Officer - Per hour |
92.57 |
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Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Administrative Officer - Per hour |
78.38 |
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Cost of expert consultant advice, such as viability assessments, assessments of energy statements |
Hourly rate of Consultant |
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S106 Agreements |
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Discharge of a S106 obligation |
262.00 |
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General s106 agreements: Negotiating and preparing simple agreements (categories 4-11) |
692.53 |
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General s106 agreements: Negotiating and preparing more complex agreements (category 3) |
1,212.50 |
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General s106 agreements: Negotiating and preparing complex agreements (category 2 ) |
2,193.01 |
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General s106 agreements: Negotiating and preparing very large and abnormally complex agreements (category 1) |
3.231.80 |
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General s106 agreements: Monitoring s106 agreements other than Travel Plan and Construction Management Plan |
713.55 Per Clause |
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General s106 agreements: Re-negotiating s106 agreements |
As per original fee requirement |
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General s106 agreements: Affordable Housing Deferred contribution S106 clause. |
202.27 |
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S106: Solicitors/Customer requests for detailed information or reports - Per 60 minutes – or part thereof |
76.68 |
Planning Policy Advice |
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Local Plan (Adopted 15th September 2015): Part 1 Policies |
35.46 |
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Local Plan (Adopted 15th September 2015): Part 2 Site Allocations and Appendix |
35.46 |
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Local Plan (LP) (Adopted 15th September 2015): Set of 2 |
59.64 |
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Local Plan (LP) (Adopted 15th September 2015): Maps (Policies) - (East or West) |
17.79 |
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Local Plan (LP) (Adopted 15th September 2015): Maps (Policies) - (East and West) - Set of 2 |
29.61 |
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Local Plan (LP) (Adopted 15th September 2015): Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD) - CIL and Planning Obligations (Adopted December 2015) |
17.79 |
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Local Plan (LP): Authority Monitoring Reports |
11.82 |
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Planning Briefs: Adopted |
11.82 (per report) |
