Fees for planning applications

This consultation seeks views on proposals to:

• establish a new national default fee schedule, based on 90% of estimated costs, to bring planning fees to a level closer to cost recovery and act as a baseline from which a new local fee setting model will operate
• introduce new fees and restructure existing fee categories in order to reduce complexity for users
• implement a surcharge on planning fees for statutory consultees, set in the region of 10% of the national default fee
• establish the key principles behind local fee setting, as well as seek views on the potential to implement a cap on locally set fees
• review the future role of discretionary services such as Planning Performance Agreements and pre-application advice in light of proposed increases to default fees and the introduction of the local variation model