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New Planning Fees - 1 April 2025

The Government have announced changes to Planning Fees effective from 1st April 2025.

The Government recently published increases in planning fees following a consultation in August last year. The new increase in some specific planning fees are in addition to recent changes which will see all other planning fees go up in line with inflation. All of the fee increase come into effect from 1st April 2025.

The Planning Portal has set out a new fee schedule for the increase on 1 April 2025

This document is based upon:

The draft amending legislation ‘The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025’ (subject to parliamentary approval).

‘The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) Regulations 2012’ (as amended) including all amendments up to the end of 2024.

The Consumer Price Index 12-month rate for September 2024 of 1.7%.

Government fee increase webpage

A summary of the changes:

The following types of applications see specific fee changes:-

• Householder applications from £258 to £528
• Prior approval fees £120/£125/£258 rise to £240/£250/£516
• Discharge of planning conditions for householder decisions £43 to £86
• All other discharge of planning conditions £145 to £298
• Variation or Removal of a planning condition for householder permissions £293 down to £86
• Variation or Removal of non-major planning conditions £293 to £586
• Variation or Removal of major planning conditions £293 to £2,000
• All other planning fees will rise by 1.7% inflation

Please note - Any applications submitted on or after the 1st April 2025 will be subject to the increased fees. Any invalid applications submitted before this date and not registered may also trigger additional fee payments.

Current National Planning Fees 

The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 have been approved and made on 8th November.

The current regulations

The regulations from 2023 do the following:

• Increase planning application fees by 35% for applications for major development and 25% for all other applications.
• Introduce an annual indexation of planning applications fees, capped at 10%, from 1 April 2025.
• Remove the fee exemption for repeat applications (the ‘free-go’). An applicant will still be able to benefit from a free-go if their application was withdrawn or refused in the preceding 12 months, subject to all other conditions for the free-go being met.
• Reduce the Planning Guarantee for non-major planning applications from 26 to 16 weeks.
• Introduce a new prior approval fee of £120 for applications for prior approval for development by the Crown on closed defence sites.

The current fees will came into force from the start of 6th December 2023.

The Planning Portal has set out the fee schedule for planning fees from 6th December 2023

The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023. These Regulations amend the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2920) (“the 2012 Fees Regulations”).

The statutory instrument related to the fee increase can be viewed here, and relates to the The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

The Council will update its scale of fees in due course to reflect the fee increase. See Fees and Charges button on this page.