Planning permission pre-application fees
Pre-Application advice charges (effective 1 April 2023) – all charges inclusive of standard rate VAT @ 20%
Householder or advertisement development
- Development
- Alterations and/or extensions to dwelling Applications for adverts
- Charge
- £121 (100.83)
Minor developments
- Development
- Change of use Single dwelling
- Charge
- £308.00 (256.67) to cover one unaccompanied site visit and one letter
- Development
- Dwellings (2–9) or site area of less than 0.5ha where number of dwellings not given Non-residential where floor space is less than 1,000sqm or where site is less than 1ha Gypsy/traveller pitches (1–9)
- Charge
- £726.00 (605.00) to cover one unaccompanied site visit and one letter *Additional meetings £85.00 (70.83) per hour/per officer required to attend *To be agreed with you in advance
Small scale major developments
- Development
- Dwellings (10–199) or site area is between 0.5ha and 4ha where number of dwellings is not given Non-residential floor space between 1,000sqm and 9,999sqm or where site area is between 1ha and less than 2ha Gypsy /traveller pitches (10–199)
- Charge
- £1452.00 (1210.00) to cover one site visit and one letter *Additional meetings £85.00 (70.83) per hour/per officer required to attend *To be agreed with you in advance
Large scale major developments
- Development
- Dwellings (200) or more dwellings or site area of 4ha or more when number of dwellings not given Non-residential where floor space is 10,000sqm or more or site area is 2ha or more Gypsy/traveller pitches (200 or more)
- Charge
- £2420.00 (2016.67) to cover one site visit and one letter *Additional meetings £85.00 (70.83) per hour/per officer required to attend *To be agreed with you in advance
Minerals and other renewable energy proposals
- Proposal
- EIA proposals
- Charge
- £3025.00 (2520.83) to cover one site visit and one letter *Additional meetings £85.00 (70.83) per hour/per officer required to attend *To be agreed with you in advance
- Proposal
- Major non EIA proposal exceeding 1ha
- Charge
- £1815.00 (1512.50) to cover one site visit and one letter *Additional meetings £85.00 (70.83) per hour/per officer required to attend *To be agreed with you in advance
- Proposal
- All other proposals
- Charge
- £429.00 (357.50) to cover one unaccompanied site visit and one letter
- Proposal
- Compliance checking service, for compliance checking post-decision
- Charge
- £73.00 (£60.83)
Pre-application meetings (on site, at the agents/applicants office, at the nearest council office or online)
The current hourly rate is £85.00 (70.83) (excluding VAT) per member of council staff involved in meeting/site visit.
No charge will be made for pre-application enquiries which relate to applications for which there is no fee payable.