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The Planning (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

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PART 2SCALES OF FEES

Category of DevelopmentFee payable
1. All buildings (other than a single dwellinghouse)

Outline Applications

£252 for each 0.1 hectare of the site area subject to a maximum of £10,066

2. Single DwellinghouseOutline Applications £425
3. The erection of a dwellinghouse

(a) Reserved matters

where the application is for a single dwellinghouse, £425.

(b) Full

where the application is for a single dwellinghouse, £851

(c) Full and reserved matters

  • For 2 or more dwellinghouses—

    (i)

    where the number of dwellinghouses to be created by the development is 50 or fewer, £1,000 for two dwellinghouses and £357 for each additional dwelling house;

    (ii)

    where the number of dwellinghouses to be created by the development exceeds 50, £18,136; and an additional £106 for each dwellinghouse in excess of 50 dwellinghouses, subject to a maximum in total of £265,806.

4. The extension, improvement or alteration of an existing dwellinghouse, including the erection of a building or the carrying out of other operations within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse for purposes ancillary to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse as such, or the erection or construction of gates, fences, walls or other means of enclosure along a boundary or a curtilage of an existing dwellinghouse.

£285 for each dwelling.
5. The erection of industrial, commercial, community and other buildings, other than dwellinghouses or buildings covered by category 4.

Full and Reserved Matters

(a)

where no floor space is to be created by the development, £181;

(b)

where the area of gross floor space to be created by the development does not exceed 40 sq.m., £181;

(c)

where the area of the gross floor space to be created by the development exceeds 40 sq.m., but does not exceed 75 sq.m., £357;

(d)

where the area of the gross floor space to be created by the development exceeds 75sq.m., but does not exceed 3,750 sq.m., £357 for each 75 sq.m of that area;

(e)

where the area of gross floor space to be created by the development exceeds 3,750 sq.m., £17,930; and an additional £106 for each 75 sq.m., in excess of 3,750 sq.m., subject to a maximum in total of £265,806.

6. The erection, alteration or replacement of plant and machinery including telecommunications/datacommunications equipment, a single wind turbine and wind farms.
(a)

where the site area does not exceed 5 hectares, £357 for each 0.1 hectare of the site area;

(b)

where the site area exceeds 5 hectares, £17,824; and an additional £106 for each 0.1 hectare in excess of 5 hectares, subject to a maximum in total of £265,806.

7. The erection, on land used for the purposes of agriculture, of buildings to be used for agricultural purposes and for agricultural and commercial glasshouses.

£949 for each 500sq.m., of floorspace subject to a maximum of £12,582.
8. The winning and working of peat.

£1,887 for each 5 hectares of the site area subject to a maximum of £33,971.

9. (a) The winning and working of minerals (other than peat).

(b) The carrying out of any operations connected with exploratory drilling for oil or natural gas.

(c) The use of land for the disposal of refuse or waste materials or for the deposit of material remaining after minerals have been extracted from land or the use of land for the storage of minerals in the open.

(d) The carrying out of any other operation not coming within any of the above categories.

£365 per 0.1 hectare of the site area subject to a maximum of £40,828.

10. The construction of single level car parks, service roads and other means of access on land used for the purpose of a single undertaking, where the development is required for a purpose incidental to the existing use of the land.

£252

11. (a) The continuance of a use of land or the retention of buildings or works on land, without compliance with a condition subject to which a previous planning permission has been granted (including a condition requiring discontinuance of the use of the removal of the building or works at the end of the specified period).

(b) An application to develop land without compliance with a condition subject to which a previous planning permission has been granted.

£252
12. An application for a material change of use.

(a) where the application relates to a dwellinghouse, £692 for the first dwellinghouse and £252 for each additional dwellinghouse subject to a maximum of £12,582.

(b) for any other change of use, £252 for each 75sq.m., of floorspace subject to a maximum of £12,582.

13.Any other application not falling within categories 1-12.£831

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