The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications and Site Visits) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Fees for applications for certificates of appropriate alternative development

3.—(1) The 2015 Regulations are further amended as follows.

(2) After regulation 16A insert—

““16B    Fees for applications for certificates of appropriate alternative development

(1) Where an application is made to a local planning authority under section 17 of the Land Compensation Act 1961 (certificates of appropriate alternative development) a fee must be paid to that authority.

(2) The fee payable in respect of an application to which this regulation applies is £230.

(3) Where an application is made by or on behalf of a community council, the fee payable is one half of the amount that would otherwise be payable.

(4) The fee due in respect of an application to which this regulation applies must accompany the application when it is lodged with the local planning authority.

(5) Where the local planning authority who receive the fee in accordance with paragraphs (1) to (4) are not the local planning authority who have to determine the application, they must remit the fee to that authority at the same time as they forward the application to them.

(6) Any fee paid pursuant to this regulation must be refunded if the application is rejected as invalid.”