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2025 No. 342
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLAND
The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025
Made
12th March 2025
Coming into force
1st April 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 303(1) and (5) and 333(2A) and (2B) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
In accordance with section 303(8)(a) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
Propose a change1 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st April 2025.
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.
(4) In these Regulations, “the 2012 Regulations” means the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) Regulations 2012.
Propose a change2 Amendment of the 2012 Regulations
The 2012 Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 3, 4 and 5.
Propose a change3 Amendment of regulation 14
Regulation 14(1) (fees for certain applications under the General Permitted Development Order) is amended as follows—
(a) in sub-paragraphs (za), (zab), (zac), (a), (aa) and (ba), for “£120”, in each place it occurs, substitute “£240”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (zb), for “£258” substitute “£516”;
(c) in sub-paragraph (zc), for “£125” substitute “£250”.
Propose a change4 Amendment of regulation 16
(1) Regulation 16 (fees for confirmation of compliance with condition attached to planning permission) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “£43” substitute “£86”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (b), for “£145” substitute “£298”.
(3) After paragraph (1A) insert—
(1B) For the purposes of paragraph (1), reference to a condition or conditions includes reference to a condition or conditions attached to a grant of planning permission pursuant to provision in or under Part 2 of Schedule 7A to the 1990 Act (condition of planning permission relating to biodiversity gain).
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Propose a change5 Amendment of Schedule 1
(1) Schedule 1 (fees in respect of applications and deemed applications for planning permission or for approval of reserved matters) is amended as follows.
(2) In Part 1 (fees for planning applications and deemed applications), for paragraph 5 substitute—
5 (1) Where an application is made pursuant to section 73 of the 1990 Act (determination of applications to develop land without compliance with conditions previously attached) the fee payable in respect of the application shall be—
(a) if the application is a householder application, £86;
(b) if the application is an application for major development, £2,000;
(c) in any other case, £586.
(2) In this paragraph, “major development” has the same meaning as in article 2(1) of the Development Management Procedure Order.
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(3) In Part 2 (scale of fees), in the table—
(a) in the entry relating to category 2, in paragraph (3)(e), for “£30,680” substitute “£31,385”;
(b) in the entry relating to category 3, in paragraph (3)(d), for “£624”, in the first place it occurs, substitute “£5,077”;
(c) in the entry relating to category 6—
(i) in paragraph (1), for “£258” substitute “£528”;
(ii) in paragraph (2), for “£509” substitute “£1,043”.
Propose a change6 Transitional provision
(1) The amendments made in regulations 3, 4 and 5 do not apply to—
(a) any application—
(i) made before the commencement date, or
(ii) deemed to have been made, by virtue of section 177(5) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, in connection with an enforcement notice issued before the commencement date, or
(b) any request made under regulation 16(1) of the 2012 Regulations before the commencement date.
(2) Regulation 18A of the 2012 Regulations (fees payable on or after 1st April 2025) applies in respect of the relevant amended amounts as if, in paragraph (5), in the definition of “fee change date”, for “1st April 2025” there were substituted “1st April 2026”.
(3) In this regulation—
“the commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force;
“the relevant amended amounts” means the fees as amended by regulations 3, 4 and 5.
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