Planning fees and charges

Service Provided (All Fees Inclusive of VAT)

Charge 2026-27 (£)

General

Fast Track Planning Application Service (in addition to the full planning application fee)

£600.00

Solicitors/Customer Inquiries - Per 30 minutes – or part thereof

£95.67

Trees and Hedges

Complaints - Arboriculturist fee

£1,106.42

Tree Preservation Orders - An additional charge will be required for the associated plan

£89.37

Plans (where permitted by Copyright Order 1989). A4

£38.14

High Hedges - Initial Payment

£762.73

Design Review Panel

Design Review Panel – Standard Review

£6,873.30

Design Review Panel – Large Scale Review

£7,930.65

Design Review Panel – Chair’s Review

£3,701.25

Planning Application Advice

Weekly list of Planning Applications or Planning Decisions

Available free online.

Returned / Invalid Application Charge

£70

Administrative fee associated with receiving an application by post

£115

 Administrative fee associated with receiving application by email

£115

Planning Decision Notices/Enforcement notices/Appeal Decisions/Committee Reports/Delegated Reports & Legal Agreements Charge is for 10 pages & under – an additional £2.10 will be charged for each further 10 pages or part thereof per page if request made for paper copies

Available Free online Paper copies - £38.13 + fee for additional pages

Planning Performance Agreements

Bespoke Fees Apply

Pre-Application Advice - Development proposals at a concept stage

£5,416.29

Pre - application Advice Category 1: Major Residential. 10 or more homes (no commercial element).

£7,393.22 for 10 newhomes. Additional £83.07 for each additional home

Pre - application Advice Category 2: Buildings other than dwellings over 1,000sqm of gross floor space (no residential element).

£7,393.22 for 1000 sqm of floor space. An additional £0.78 for each additional sqm

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)

The total fee will be calculated from the

relevant fee for each

category proposed

(Including category 1,

2, 4, 5 and 6)

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

Pre-application Advice, Category 4: Minor Residential. 1 or more homes, up to 9 homes.

£1,216.90 for a new home. £337.57 for each additional home (Up to 9 homes)

Pre-application Advice, Category 5: Buildings other than dwellings with gross floorspace up to 999 sqm (including changes of use)

£1,216.90 for 0/ 1 sqm of floorspace. £3.21 for each additional sqm (Up to 999 sqm)

Pre-application Advice, Category 6: Mixture of Minor Residential and buildings up to 999 sqm

The fee will be a combination of category 4 and category 5

Pre-application Advice, Category 7: Conversion of one house to flats

£1,216.90

Pre-application Advice, Advice, Category 8: Conversion of one house to a HMO

£1,450.92

Pre-application Advice, Category 9, Standalone advert hoardings and telecommunications masts

£2,251.38

Pre-application Advice, Category 10a: Householder developments, including extensions, outbuildings, walls - written response only, no meeting

£408.44

Pre-application Advice, Category 10b: Householder developments, including extensions, outbuildings, walls – written response and meeting

£558.55

Pre-application Advice Category 10c: householder development including extensions, outbuildings, walls - with site visit

£769.87

Pre - application Advice. Category 10d: Householder extension to listed building

£1,232.82

Pre - application Advice. Category 11a: Listed Building - Minor Works (Minor, unobtrusive alterations to a Listed Building)

£1.084.40

Pre-application Advice, Category 11b: Listed Buildings - Major Works (Major, substantive alterations to a Listed Building)

£1,945.12

Category 4-11 Single follow up meeting (within 6 months of original response)

75% of original fee

  Additional Meetings and ‘Bolt Ons’

Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Director - Per hour

£749.35

Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Head of Service - Per hour

£449.61

Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Manager/Section Head - Per Hour

£196.33

Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Principal/Senior - Per hour

£158.87

Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Planning Officer and CIL Officer - Per hour

£121.39

Additional Meetings – Officer Time: Administrative Officer - Per Hour

£102.80

Cost of expert consultant advice, such as viability assessments, assessments of energy statements

Hourly rate of Consultant

S106 Agreements

Discharge of a S106 obligation

£288.58

General s106 agreements: Negotiating and preparing simple agreements (categories 4-11)

£762.78

General s106 agreements: Negotiating and preparing more complex agreements (category 3)

£1,335.51

General s106 agreements: Negotiating and preparing complex agreements (category 2 )

£2,415.49

General s106 agreements: Negotiating and preparing very large and abnormally complex agreements (category 1)

£3,559.67

General s106 agreements: Monitoring s106 agreements other than Travel Plan and Construction Management Plan

£785.94 Per Clause

General s106 agreements: Re-negotiating s106 agreements

As per original fee requirement

General s106 agreements: Affordable Housing Deferred contribution S106 clause.

£222.79

S106: Solicitors/Customer requests for detailed information or reports - Per 60 minutes – or part thereof

£95.67

Planning Policy Advice

Local Plan (Adopted 15th September 2015): Part 1 Policies

£39.06

Local Plan (Adopted 15th September 2015): Part 2 Site Allocations and Appendix

£39.06

Local Plan (LP) (Adopted 15th September 2015): Set of 2

£65.69

Local Plan (LP) (Adopted 15th September 2015): Maps (Policies) - (East or West)

£19.59

Local Plan (LP) (Adopted 15th September 2015): Maps (Policies) - (East and West) - Set of 2

£32.61

Local Plan (LP) (Adopted 15th September 2015): Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD) - CIL and Planning Obligations (Adopted December 2015)

£19.59

Local Plan (LP): Authority Monitoring Reports

£13.02

Planning Briefs: Adopted

£13.02 (per report)