Planning

C1C212Fees for planning applications

1

The appropriate Ministers may by regulations make provision about fees for relevant planning applications.

2

Regulations under subsection (1) may in particular—

a

make provision for the payment to the authority to which a relevant planning application is made of a fee of a prescribed amount;

b

make provision for the remission or refunding of a prescribed fee (in whole or part) in prescribed circumstances;

c

make provision for a prescribed fee to be treated as paid in prescribed circumstances;

d

make provision about the time for payment of a prescribed fee;

e

make provision about the consequences of non-payment of a prescribed fee, including provision for the termination of the application concerned or any appeal against its refusal;

f

make provision for the resolution of disputes.

3

Regulations under subsection (1) may—

a

make such supplementary, incidental or consequential provision as the appropriate Ministers think fit, and

b

make different provision for different cases.

4

The power to make regulations under subsection (1) shall be exercisable by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

5

Nothing in regulations under section 303 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (fees for planning applications) shall apply to a relevant planning application.

6

In this section—

  • “appropriate Ministers” means the Secretary of State for F1Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Secretary of State for Transport acting jointly;

  • “prescribed” means prescribed in regulations under subsection (1);

  • “relevant planning application” means a request for approval under the planning permission deemed by section 10(1) to be granted.