Costs, Fees and Budgeting – Page 13
What planning applications, reports, surveys and appeals cost, with published fee schedules.
Costs, Fees and Budgeting articles – page 13
354 articlesVAT on planning and professional fees for self-builders
Construction services on a qualifying new dwelling are zero-rated. Professional fees are not, and the self-build refund scheme does not cover them. Budget them gross.
Budgeting an air quality evidence base
Air quality budgets usually price the report and forget the monitoring. Where the money and the months actually go, from screening through to the damage cost calculation.
What professional review and sign-off costs
A reviewer who signs a report puts their indemnity cover behind it, which is what sets the fee. Where review works, where it does not, and how to cut the time it takes.
The cost of archaeological evaluation and monitoring
Archaeological costs are staged, and the later stages are set by what comes out of the ground. How the desk study, geophysics, trenching, mitigation and archive deposition are priced.
Budgeting a daylight and sunlight assessment
Fees vary because assessors assume different scopes. Agree the study area and the assessed rooms first, and the quotes finally become comparable.
Section 278 works: bonds, fees and commuted sums
The works price is one line of four. Design checking, inspection, a bond uplifted above the contractor's figure and commuted sums all land on different triggers.
Section 106 legal and monitoring costs explained
The council's legal bill is only one part of a section 106 agreement's cost. Monitoring fees, variation costs and the carrying cost of delay usually matter more.
Budgeting ground investigation from desk study to Phase 2
The desk study is the small invoice. Phase 2, gas monitoring and the verification work that follows consent are where contamination budgets break.
Budgeting a BS 5837 tree evidence base
Arboricultural work comes in stages and the survey is only the first invoice. What drives the price, and why surveying after the layout is drawn costs most.
Budgeting biodiversity net gain on a small site
The survey is the small number. Off-site units, the legal agreement and thirty years of management are where a small site biodiversity budget goes wrong.
Getting a planning fee refunded for non-determination
Regulation 9A of the 2012 Fees Regulations refunds the planning fee where an application is not determined in 26 weeks. An agreed extension of time removes the entitlement.
What listed building consent and advertisement consent cost
Listed building consent is free and so is planning permission for relevant demolition in a conservation area. Advertisement consent is not, and a listed shopfront can need three applications at once.
The fee exemption for disabled persons adaptations
Works that provide access or facilities for a disabled person can carry no planning fee at all under the 2012 fees regulations. The claim is made at submission, and the evidence you attach decides whether it is accepted.
What the householder application fee actually covers
The householder fee buys a determination and nothing else. Which works sit inside the category, and the four exclusions that invalidate applications.
The free go: resubmitting a refused application free
One further application of the same character on the same site by the same applicant within 12 months avoids the planning fee. The conditions are applied strictly.
What a design and access statement costs to produce
The cost of a design and access statement is a question of hours: heritage constraints, how much design rationale already exists in writing, and how many client rounds the document absorbs.
What a householder planning application really costs
The council fee is the smallest line in a householder budget. Here is the rest of the stack, from measured survey to Building Regulations, and the two fee rules worth knowing before you pay.
Costs awards at appeal: when they are actually made
An award of costs at appeal needs two things: unreasonable behaviour and expense it caused. Here is what inspectors treat as unreasonable and how to apply.
What drives the price of a Planning Statement
Planning Statement quotes vary widely because the research behind them does. Here is what drives the price and where you can reasonably do more yourself.
CIL surcharges and how to avoid them
Community Infrastructure Levy surcharges punish paperwork failures, not underpayment. Here is what each one costs, when it bites and how to appeal within 28 days.
How a CIL charge is calculated on a new dwelling
The Community Infrastructure Levy calculation turns on four inputs: the rate, the gross internal area, the existing floorspace deduction and the index. Here is how each one works.
Pre-application advice charges and what they buy
Councils charge for pre-application advice under a general power to charge for discretionary services. Here is how the bands work, what a useful response contains, and when the fee is not worth paying.
The fee for a section 73 application to vary a condition
A section 73 application to vary a condition carries a fixed, annually indexed fee. The larger costs sit in the new permission it creates, the levy recalculation and the deed of variation.
Fees and charges when a permission is nearly expired
You cannot extend an expiring planning permission by varying the time condition. The options are lawful implementation, a fresh application, or losing it, and each carries a different bill.
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