Means of access etc. for disabled persons
7.—(1) No fee is payable under regulation 3 where the planning authority to which an application is made is satisfied as to the matters specified in paragraphs (2)(a) or (b).
(2) The matters are that the application relates solely to the carrying out of operations for—
(a)the alteration or extension of a dwellinghouse (but not including the erection of a dwellinghouse) or other operations within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse for the purpose of—
(i)providing means of access to or within the dwellinghouse for a disabled person who resides or proposes to reside in that dwellinghouse, or
(ii)providing facilities designed to secure that person’s greater safety, health or comfort,
(b)the purpose of providing means of access for disabled persons to or within a building or premises to which members of the public are admitted.
(3) In this regulation, “disabled person” has the meaning given by section 6 of the Equality Act 2010(1).