These regulations amend the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) Regulations 1989.

The main change is that all fees currently payable under the 1989 Regulations are increased in two stages: the first when these Regulations come into force (28 days after they are made) and the second from 1st October, 1997. The first increase is of approximately 10% on the previous fees, and the second increase is of approximately 5% on the fees as first increased. Replacement scales of fees (Part II of Schedule 1, and Schedule 2, to the 1989 Regulations) are set out in the Schedules for each stage of increase.

Regulation 4 provides that a disabled child is a disabled person for the purposes of exemption from fees under regulation 4 of the 1989 Regulations.

Schedules 1 to 4 change only the amount of the fees and do not effect any change to the categories of development or the basis of calculation.