These Regulations amend the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) Regulations 1989 (“the 1989 Regulations”) which provide for the payment of fees for certain applications for planning permission and other consents.

Regulation 2 provides for fees to be charged for applications to the local planning authority for determination of an application for a new planning permission to replace an existing permission for development that has not yet commenced and for determination of applications for a non-material change to an existing planning permission.

Paragraph 6 of these Regulations provide for a decrease in the maximum fee from £250,000 to £1,690 in respect of paragraph 9(b) which sets out scales of fees for the carrying out of any operation not coming within the other categories set out in Part 2 (scale of fees in respect of applications made or deemed to be made on or after 6th April 2008), Schedule 1 to the 1989 Regulations.

An impact assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations. It has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament and copies may be obtained from Department for Communities and Local Government, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DU (Telephone 020 7944 3676).