The Government has introduced new fees for the discharge
of planning conditions which started on 6 April 2008. Full details
about this can be viewed by downloading the
Statutory Instrument 958
which was issued by Central Government on 2 April
2008. We are introducing the charges with effect from the 1
June 2008.
The new fee is payable where a written request is made for
the discharge of one or more conditions on the same permission. The
fee is payable for each request and not for each condition.
For example, if your planning permission was granted subject to 3
conditions that reserved details for approval at a later date and
you apply to discharge the first two conditions together
and then the third at a later date, you will have to pay two
separate fees.
The set fees are £85 per request or £25 where the related
permission was for extending or altering a dwelling house or
other development within the curtilage of a dwelling house. The fee
must be paid when the request is made, it does not matter
when the permission was granted. The request, identifying the
permission and the conditions concerned can be made using the
relevant national application form.
The government encourages authorities to deal with all requests
within 8 weeks. The submitted fee will be refundable if there isn't
a response sent within 12 weeks from the date of receipt of a valid
request.
Requests to discharge planning conditions or to confirm they
have been complied with that are received without the appropriate
fee and/or which do not clearly identify both the decision notice
and the relevant condition will not be considered. Please note that
you must provide whatever detail the condition specifies, for
example, samples of materials or a landscape plan (to scale, with
scale bar). Please use the relevant
national application form when
submitting your request and remember to refer to decision notice
reference number.
When submitting your request, please take into account the
following guidance, where relevant.
1. Contaminated Land
2. Disability
design guidance
3. Disabled
access ramp
4. Ecological survey
4a.
Ecological
Consultants
4b. Bat consultants
4c.
Bird and Bat boxes
5. Landscape
guidance
6. Waste Storage
7. External Materials
For more information contact our
Development
Management team.
