A guide to the fees for planning applications
A guide to the fees for planning applications in accordance with the Town and Country Planning (fees for applications, deemed applications, requests and site visits) (England) regulations 2012.
These fees apply from April 2026 onwards. The fee should be paid at the time the application is submitted. If you are unsure of the fee applicable, please contact your local planning authority.
Full applications (and first submissions of reserved matters)
Operations connected with exploratory drilling for oil or natural gas
Operations (other than exploratory drilling) for the winning and working of oil or natural gas
Other operations (winning and working of minerals) excluding oil and natural gas
Other operations (not coming within any of the above categories)
Change of use of a building to use as one or more separate dwelling houses, or other cases
Application for non-material amendment following a grant of planning permission
£610 for each 01 hectare for sites up to 1 hectare Not more than 1 hectare £588 per 0.1 hectare | ||
£659 per 0.1 hectare for sites between 1 hectare and 2.5 hectares | Not more than 2.5 hectares | £659 per 0.1 hectare |
£16,291 plus £196 for each 0.1 in excess of 2.5 hectares to a maximum of £213,769 | More than 2.5 hectares | £16,291 plus £196 per 0.1 hectare |
Car parks, service roads or other accesses | For existing uses | £309 |
Waste (Use of land for disposal of refuse or waste materials or deposit of material remaining after extraction or storage of minerals) | ||
Site area | Not more than 7.5 hectares | £333 for each 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) |
Site area | More than 7.5 hectares | £49,786 plus £196 for each additional 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) in excess of 15 hectares up to a maximum of £111,159 |
Other operations (not coming within any of the above categories) | |
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Any site area | £309 for each 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) up to a maximum of £2,676 |
LDC – existing use – in breach of a planning condition | Same as full |
LDC – existing use LDC – lawful not to comply with a particular condition | £309 |
LDC – proposed use | Half the normal planning fee |
Agricultural and forestry buildings and operations or demolition of buildings | £249 |
Telecommunications code systems operators | £610 |
Application for approval of reserved matters following outline approval | Full fee due or if full fee already paid then £610 due |
Application for removal or variation of a condition following grant of planning permission | Non-major (other than householder) £608 Major development £2,076 |
Request for confirmation that one or more planning conditions have been complied with | £309 per request |
Application for Non-material Amendment following a grant of planning permission | |
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Applications in respect of householder developments | £46 |
Applications in respect of other developments | £309 |
Concessions - exemptions from payment
For alterations, extensions, etc. to a dwelling house for the benefit of a registered disabled person
An application solely for the carrying out of the operations for the purpose of providing a means of access for disabled persons to or within a building or premises to which members of the public are admitted
Listed building consent
Conservation area consent
Works to trees covered by a Tree Preservation Order or in a Conservation Area Hedgerow Removal
If the proposal relates to works that require planning permission only by virtue of an Article 4 Direction of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, i.e. where the application is required only because of a direction or planning condition removing permitted development rights.
If the application is for a lawful development certificate, for existing use, where an application for planning permission for the same development would be exempt from the need to pay a planning fee under any other planning fee regulation
If the application is for consent to display an advertisement following either a withdrawal of an earlier application (before notice of decision was issued) or where the application is made following refusal of consent for display of an advertisement, and where the application is made by or on behalf of the same person
If the application is for alternative proposals for the same site by the same applicant, in order to benefit from the permitted development right in Schedule 2 Part 3 Class E of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995
Concessions - reductions to payments
If the application is being made on behalf of a non-profit making sports club or works for playing fields not involving buildings then the fee is £610
If the application is being made on behalf of a parish or community council then the fee is 50%
If the application is an alternative proposal being submitted on the same site by the same applicant on the same day, where this application is of lesser cost then the fee is 50%
If two or more applications are submitted for different proposals on the same day and relating to the same site then you must pay the fee for the highest fee plus half sum of the others
Where an application relates to development which is within more than one fee category, the correct fee is simply the highest of the fees payable (if not including residential)
Where an application consists of the erection of dwellings and the erection of other types of buildings (categories 1-4) the fees are added together and maximum can be exceeded
Where an application crosses one or more local or district planning authorities then the fee is 150% and goes to the authority that contains the larger part of the application site or a sum of the fees it if is less than 150%