Costs, Fees and Budgeting – Page 2
What planning applications, reports, surveys and appeals cost, with published fee schedules.
Costs, Fees and Budgeting articles – page 2
353 articlesWhat drives the cost of a basement impact assessment
Ground investigation and monitoring dominate basement impact assessment fees, not the writing. A single-storey basement within the existing footprint can end the process at the screening stage.
What drives the cost of a coal mining risk assessment
The desk study is the modest part. Mine entries, zones of influence and intrusive drilling are what move a coalfield site budget and programme.
Costing a water neutrality offset where policy requires one
Water neutrality cannot be met by efficient fittings alone. Here is how the demand calculation works and what drives the cost of offsetting the shortfall.
Budgeting the statutory metric and the biodiversity gain plan
The metric and the biodiversity gain plan are two separate pieces of work billed separately. Here is what drives the cost of each, and where the exemptions sit.
Applying for an award of costs at appeal
An award of costs at planning appeal turns on unreasonable behaviour that caused wasted expense, not on the outcome. Here is the test, when to apply, how partial awards work and which evidence persuades.
Budgeting a written representations appeal
Lodging a section 78 appeal costs nothing, so the budget is all preparation. Here is how the written representations procedure works, what drives the cost, and when a revised application is the better buy.
Reading a council pre-application charging schedule
Pre-application advice charges are set by each council, not by the national fee regulations. Here is how to read the bands, spot what a band excludes, and frame questions that produce a usable answer.
Section 192 certificates and the half fee rule
The fee for a section 192 certificate of lawfulness for proposed development is half the corresponding planning application fee. Here is what the certificate can confirm, how precisely to describe the proposal, and when a planning application is the better buy.
Budgeting a scheme that needs a habitats regulations assessment
The assessment is the council's duty and the applicant's cost. Why mitigation cannot be counted at screening, what secures it for the lifetime of the development, and how to programme the obligation.
Who pays when a consultee asks for more work
Consultee requests arrive after validation because validation never tested adequacy. The scoping agreement and the additional services clause decide who pays, and a condition is often the better answer.
Discharging an archaeological condition in phases
An archaeological condition has three limbs and each is a separate discharge. How to secure phased approval, what the curator charges for, and where the post-excavation tail hides.
Budgeting for Active Travel England engagement
The statutory thresholds are 150 dwellings, 7,500 m² of floorspace or 5 hectares. What the assessment tool looks for, which design changes follow an objection, and how to programme the engagement.
Temporary traffic orders and construction access costs
Construction access runs on statutory timetables set by the highway authority. Which works need an order, what the lead times are, and the charges that overrun on urban sites.
Party wall awards and the development programme
Party wall procedure runs on its own statutory clock, independent of planning permission. Notice periods, the dissent timetable, the award and what it does to your start date.
The cost of changing from outline to full application
Switching from outline and reserved matters to a single full application costs a fresh fee, a rerun of parts of the technical baseline and possibly a renegotiated section 106.
What an Article 4 direction does to a conversion appraisal
Withdrawing a permitted development right changes the consent route, the documents, the timetable and the unit mix. Four places an Article 4 direction belongs in a conversion appraisal.
Rights of light risk on an urban infill
Rights of light sit outside the planning system. The remedy is an injunction or damages based on development value, which makes this a project risk rather than a cost line.
Flood modelling where no published model exists
Published flood mapping covers main rivers in detail and ordinary watercourses barely at all. On those sites the choice is bespoke modelling or a defensibly conservative approach.
Electricity capacity enquiries and connection costs
Distance to the nearest cable is not what prices an electricity connection. The nominated point of connection and any reinforcement behind it are, and a free budget estimate tells you early.
Budgeting a second ecological season after a lapse
Ecology data has a working shelf life of roughly one to three years. When a permission lapses or a licence expires, the difference between an update visit and a second full season decides the budget.
Aerodrome safeguarding responses and what they cost you
Officially safeguarded areas extend several kilometres from a runway, and the en-route rules apply anywhere in the country once a structure reaches 91.4 metres.
Archaeological post-excavation and archive costs
An excavation produces a hole, a set of records and a quantity of material. The records and the material are liabilities until they have been analysed, published and deposited.
How a Grampian condition affects finance drawdown
The cost is almost never the off-site works themselves. It is the carry between holding a permission and holding one you can lawfully implement.
Licences to occupy the highway during construction
Highway occupation charges accrue whether or not work is happening, and they sit outside the planning fee and the building control charge. On an urban site they run for the whole programme.
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