Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

1.—(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( 2).

Amendment of the 2012 Regulations

2.  The 2012 Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 3, 4 and 5.

Amendment of regulation 14

3.  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”.

Amendment of regulation 16

4.—(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)( 3) . ”.

Amendment of Schedule 1

5.—(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)( 4) 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. ”.

(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”.

Transitional provision

6.—(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( 5), 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.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

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 Regulations”).

Regulation 3 increases the fees for certain prior approval applications under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 ( S.I. 2015/596).

Regulation 4 increases the fees for requesting written confirmation of compliance with a condition attached to a planning permission and clarifies that this fee applies to written requests to confirm compliance with a statutory biodiversity net gain condition under Schedule 7A to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8).

Regulation 5 introduces a three-tier fee structure for section 73 applications. Regulation 5 also increases the fees for householder applications and two miscellaneous fee categories which had previously been erroneously set too low.

Regulation 6 makes related transitional provision. This includes provision to the effect that the annual increase of fees as provided for in regulation 18A of the 2012 Regulations applies to the fee amounts as amended by these Regulations from 1st April 2026.

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Planning – Development Management Division, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Third Floor, Fry Building, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF, and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside this instrument onwww.legislation.gov.uk.