Tuesday 23 January 2024
The Development & Planning Authority has agreed to increase planning and building control fees.
This will be the first time that planning fees have been increased since January 2020 and the first time building control fees have been changed since September 2021.
These fees will be increased by 7.3%, which is based on RPI for the period from June 2022 to June 2023.
In addition to the increases, planning application fee category 3E has been amended to now include the application fee for the removal of a hedge, resulting in a lower fee for this type of application.
A new planning application fee category 8A has been added, which will include the installation of larger scale renewable energy equipment on land in the open air or on redundant glasshouse sites. This was previously in the general fee category 9 which is calculated on site area, so this may lead to a lower fee for these applications.
The fee increases and changes will come into effect from 5th February 2024.
