Costs, Fees and Budgeting – Page 11
What planning applications, reports, surveys and appeals cost, with published fee schedules.
Costs, Fees and Budgeting articles – page 11
355 articlesBudgeting a whole life carbon assessment
Three things drive the price of a whole life carbon assessment, and the fee rate is the last of them. How to scope the brief before asking for quotes.
Budgeting for CIL and the exemption paperwork
The levy is arithmetic, the exemption is administration, and it is the administration that goes wrong. How to budget for both, including the surcharge risk.
Appeal route costs: written reps, hearing or inquiry
The procedure decides the budget. Here is where your own costs arise in each route, which witnesses you actually need, and how to choose the one that fits the dispute.
Planning performance agreements: what you are paying for
Performance agreements sit outside the statutory fee regime. Here is how councils price officer time, what the agreed extension of time really costs you, and which clauses to press before signing.
Section 278 and section 38 highway costs explained
The figure people budget is the construction cost. The figure they pay adds design checks, audits, bonds, commuted sums and months of agreement time.
Why ecology survey costs vary so much between quotes
Three ecologists, three very different figures, and none of them wrong. The gap is in the assumptions about what the site will turn out to contain.
Section 106 costs beyond the contribution itself
The contributions are the number everyone budgets for. Legal fees, monitoring charges, mortgagee consents and indexation are the ones that arrive later.
CIL surcharges and what a missed commencement notice costs
The Community Infrastructure Levy punishes paperwork failures harder than it punishes anything else. Here is what a missed commencement notice actually costs, and the order to do things in.
How a Community Infrastructure Levy charge is calculated
A levy charge is rate times net floorspace, indexed between two years. The deduction for existing floorspace is where most liability notices go wrong.
Planning fees for a new dwelling and the sliding scale
New dwelling fees run per unit to a 50 dwelling threshold, then switch to a base plus increment. Outline applications are charged by site area, so the red line is a cost decision.
Judicial review costs risk for objectors
Judicial review tests legality, not merits, and winning sends the application back rather than stopping it. What the Aarhus costs caps cover, and the lower cost routes that remain open.
Highway agreement costs in a development budget
The works price is the easy part of a highway agreement. Technical approval fees, bond premiums, road safety audits and commuted sums are where appraisals fall short.
The real cost of an invalid planning application
Validation is an administrative gate, and failing it costs programme rather than money. What officers check, how the two-year local list rule works, and how to dispute an unreasonable requirement.
CIL instalment policies and the cost of missing a date
Instalment policies are local, not national, and the right to use one is fragile. One late payment collapses the schedule into a single immediate debt.
Reading a CIL liability notice and paying on time
The levy is procedural. Most of the money people lose to it is lost to a missed form rather than to the charging rate itself.
Planning Performance Agreements and when they pay
A planning performance agreement is a project management contract with the council, priced on officer time. It buys a timetable and named resources, not a recommendation.
When no planning fee is payable
The fee regulations exempt several categories of application entirely. Knowing which ones apply saves money on exactly the applications landlords and investors submit most often.
Outline application fees and the site area bands
Outline fees run on hectares with part units rounded up, while full applications are charged per dwelling. How the bands work and where the red line changes the sum.
Budgeting a householder extension from design to decision
The planning fee is the smallest line in an extension budget. Here is everything else, and the order of spending that wastes the least money.
Section 278 highway works: how the cost is built up
A section 278 agreement is six or more separate costs arriving at different times. Here is how each element is calculated and where developers most often underestimate.
Survey seasons and the cost of missing an ecology window
The real cost of an ecology survey window is the eleven months a scheme waits for it to reopen. Here are the windows that matter, the interim options that work, and how to sequence a year of survey work.
Section 38 adoption and the commuted sum negotiation
Bonds, inspection fees and commuted sums decide the real cost of adopting estate roads under section 38 of the Highways Act 1980. Here is how each is set and where the negotiation sits.
Calculating your CIL liability from the charging schedule
The levy is floorspace times an indexed rate, less any deduction you can evidence. Here is how to calculate it before the liability notice arrives.
Hearings and inquiries compared with written appeals
The Planning Inspectorate charges no appeal fee, so procedure drives cost. A comparison of written representations, hearings and inquiries for a developer budgeting an appeal.
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