Costs, Fees and Budgeting – Page 14
What planning applications, reports, surveys and appeals cost, with published fee schedules.
Costs, Fees and Budgeting articles – page 14
354 articlesBudgeting a contaminated land investigation
Contamination costs arrive in stages, and each stage sets the price of the next. Here is how the phased sequence to BS 10175 actually spends money on a housing site.
The cost of an unauthorised development put right
The application fee is the smallest line. Measured surveys, remedial works, lost rent and building control regularisation, plus the section 70C rule that closes off the easy route.
Fees where an application covers more than one category
A fee a pound short makes the application invalid. How to itemise a mixed scheme against the fee categories, apply the general provisions, and get the number confirmed before submission.
Budgeting an acoustic evidence base for a noisy site
The baseline survey is the largest line, and plant chosen after it is booked is what makes you pay twice. Which method applies, what conditions cost later, and where a draft helps.
The cost of a planning condition you did not negotiate
Conditions cost more than the application fee that bought them. What to price, how the six tests give you a script, and why the section 100ZA letter is the negotiation worth having.
Planning fees for prior approval applications
Prior approval fees are flat or per dwelling charges set by permitted development class, not discounted planning fees. What drives the real cost of the route.
Budgeting for professional review and sign-off of reports
Six report types legally require a licensed or competent author. Everywhere else, review is an hourly quality check. How to tell them apart and budget for each.
What an environmental impact assessment costs and why
Screening and scoping opinions carry no fee, so an EIA budget built from a fee schedule is always wrong. What actually drives the cost of an environmental statement.
Budgeting a heritage evidence base for a listed building
Listed building consent carries no application fee, but the evidence behind it does. What drives the price of a heritage statement, recording and archaeology, and how to scope each proportionately.
Budgeting a flood risk and drainage evidence base
The gap between a screening assessment and a modelled one is a factor of ten. What decides which you need, and how to sequence the work to control the fee.
Budgeting a transport evidence base for a major application
Trip data, survey windows, junction models and travel plan monitoring each carry their own cost. How to scope a transport evidence base before committing a fee.
Planning fees for outline applications and reserved matters
Outline fees follow the red line, not the unit count. How the area bands, the cap and the reserved matters aggregate rule shape the cost of a phased scheme.
Costs awards at appeal and how unreasonable behaviour is judged
Costs awards do not follow the result. What counts as substantive and procedural unreasonable behaviour, when to apply, and whether the sum is worth chasing.
Appeal costs: fees, procedures and what you actually spend
Planning appeals are free to lodge, so the real bill is your own time, any professional help and the months of delay. What each procedure costs, and when to resubmit instead.
The cost of delay when a survey season is missed
Seasonal survey windows do not move for a development programme. The cost of missing one is the carrying cost of the site until it reopens, which dwarfs the fee.
Budgeting an ecology package including biodiversity net gain
The ecology line in a small development budget is rarely one survey. It is a sequence, and the expensive part is usually the thirty year obligation nobody priced.
Section 73 and section 96A: which costs less and when
Two routes exist for changing a permission after it is granted. The cheaper one is limited to non-material amendments, and the other resets more than people expect.
Discharge of conditions fees and how to reduce them
Conditions are discharged by application, and the fee is charged for each request regardless of how many conditions it covers. Which changes how you should bundle them.
The free go: when a resubmission carries no fee
The fee regulations exempt one further application from the fee where the applicant, the site and the character of development are unchanged and twelve months have not passed. Here is exactly what that covers.
Building regulations charges compared with planning fees
Planning permission and building regulations approval are separate consents with separate charging structures. Here is how each is priced, where the routes differ, and the costs that sit outside both.
What a refusal costs once redesign is added in
A refused householder application costs far more than the fee once redesign, repeated surveys and months of delay are counted. Here is how the bill builds and how to decide between resubmitting and appealing.
Judicial review costs and the environmental cost cap
Judicial review is the only route to challenge a granted planning permission, and cost exposure decides most cases before the law does. Here is how the Aarhus cap works, what it leaves exposed and what to try first.
Highway agreement costs: technical approval, bonds and sums
Highway agreements under sections 278 and 38 of the Highways Act 1980 carry four charges beyond the works themselves. Here is how technical approval fees, bonds and commuted sums are calculated and where the programme risk sits.
Independent viability review fees and who pays them
Argue viability and the council appoints its own reviewer at your expense. How the fee is agreed, which inputs get tested hardest, and why the price paid for the land is not a benchmark.
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