Planning Application Concessionary Fees & Exemptions

In some circumstances you will not have to pay a fee or the fee is reduced. The list below shows the exemptions and concessions.

The planning application fees increased on 6 April 2008, the |scale of fees can be viewed here.
Please note: The calculation fees are based on external measurements.

• Works to improve the disabled person's access to a public building or to his access, safety, health or comfort at his dwelling house.
  No fee
• Applications by parish councils etc (advertisement applications also)
  Half the normal fee
• Applications required because of the removal of permitted development rights by a condition or by an Article 4 direction.
  No fee
• Playing fields (for sports clubs etc)
  £335
• Revised or fresh application for development (or advertisement) of the same character or description within 12 months of refusal, or the making of the earlier application if withdrawn, or with 12 months of expiry of the statutory 8 week period where the applicant has appealed to the Secretary of State on the grounds of non-determination.
  No fee
• The first revised or fresh application for development of the same character or description within 12 months of receiving permission.
  No fee
• Duplicate applications made by the same applicant within 28 days.
  Normal fee for both applications
• Alternative applications for one site
  Highest of the fees applicable for each alternative and a sum equal to half the rest
• Development crossing planning authority boundaries, requiring several applications.
  Only one fee, paid to the authority having the larger site but calculated for the whole scheme, and a subject to special ceiling