New planning fees

[Alan Ambrose]

https://blog.planningportal.co.uk/2023/09/26/details-of-the-forthcoming-planning-application-fee-increase/

 

Fees up 25% and linked to inflation for future years.

 

No 'free go'.

 

Fee refund after 16 weeks for 'non-major' e.g. full applications for single dwellings.

This should be very helpful as hopefully it'll give LPAs a reason to be quicker to avoid losing revenue. That'll also probably mean than the 8 week 'limit' will effectively be 16 weeks in practice. Hopefully it should reduce the number of cases of 1 year turnaround for my LPA.