Pre-application charges

Development Category Type of Enquiry Charge

Householder enquiries

(including extensions or alterations to existing dwellings and boundary treatments around existing dwellings).

Not for a new or replacement dwelling, or change of use to dwelling(s)

Informal opinion of proposal (no meeting) £50

Householder enquiries 

Change of use to garden space. Not for a new or replacement dwelling, or change of use to dwelling(s).

Informal opinion of proposal with 1 meeting or 1 accompanied site visit £100
Advertisements Informal opinion of proposal with no meeting and no accompanied site visit £60

Minor development: residential

Residential schemes of 1-9 dwellings or if no number is specified 0.5ha or less.

Informal opinion of the proposal with 1 meeting and 1 written response

1 dwelling: £200

2 – 4 dwellings: £350

5-9 dwellings: £500

Commercial development

No new floorspace or resulting in new floorspace on sites smaller than 1ha or less than 1000sqm.

Informal opinion of the proposal with 1 meeting and 1 written response

No floorspace created or up to 40sqm (and not a change of use): £100

41sqm – 500 sqm floospace or site less than 0.5ha if no floorspace specified: £350

501 – 999 sqm floorspace or site 0.51 to 1.0 ha: £500

Changes of use less than 1000 sqm floorspace (not for dwellings)

Informal opinion of the proposal with 1 meeting and 1 written response

£200

Changes of use more than 1000sqm (not for dwellings Informal opinion of the proposal with 1 meeting and 1 written response £450
Telecommunications development Informal opinion of the proposal with 1 meeting and 1 written response £200
Minerals and waste proposals and renewable energy schemes (non householder) Informal opinion of the proposal with 1 meeting and 1 written response £200

Major development

10 - 199 dwellings or sites of 0.5ha to less than 4 ha. Between 1000sqm to 9,999sqm commercial / industrial floorspace  or sites of between 1ha and 2ha.

Informal opinion of the proposal with maximum of 2 meetings and 2 written responses £1800

Significant Major proposals

200 or more dwellings or the site area for residential development is 4 hectares or more. Commercial development: 10,000 sqm or more, or the site is 2 hectares or more.

  £ 3500

Listed building consent works

Works to alter or extend a dwelling to enable works for a disabled person or to create access for a disabled person

Applications which do not attract a fee e.g. Resubmission of a planning application which was refused and is resubmitted within 1 year of the refusal

  No fee

Any opinion expressed by a planning officer does not automatically pre-determine the final outcome of any proposed planning application. The opinions expressed are based on the information supplied. Nor will an officer express a view as to whether or not planning permission is required for a proposal.