Planning application types and fees

The government sets all planning application fees. It's important to make sure you know what you need to pay, because we cannot process your application unless you've paid the right fee.

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The easiest way to make an application is on the Planning Portal (external website). You will pay your fee by card when you submit the application.

If you apply to us by email or post, you will need to make sure you pay your fee at the same time to avoid processing delays.

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Application types and fee

The most common application types are included in the table below. You can view a full list of application types and fees on the Planning Portal guide to the fees for planning applications in England (external download).

There is no fee for Listed Building Consent applications.

View a list of fees for our pre-application advice service and planning application amendment service.

Application type	What this includes	Fee
Residential development
Householder	Alterations and extensions to a single home, including works with the boundary	£206
Minor	Alterations and extensions to two or more homes or flats	£407
Major	Creation of 50 or fewer new homes	£462 for each home
Major	Creation of more than 50 new homes	£22,859 flat fee plus £138 for each new home
Non-residential development
Minor	Up to 40sqm increase in gross floor space	£234
Minor	Between 41sqm and 75sqm increase in gross floor space	£462
Minor (up to 1,000sqm) Major (over 1,000sqm)	Between 76sqm and 3,750sqm increase in gross floor space	£462 for each 75sqm
Major	More than 3,750sqm increase in gross floor space	£22,859 base rate, plus £138 for each additional 75sqm with a maximum fee of £300,000
Advertising
Advertisement consent	Relating to a business on the premises	£132
Advertisement consent	Advance signs which are not situated on or visible from the site, directing the public to a business	£132
Advertisement consent	Other advertisements	£462
Lawful Development Certificates
Lawful development certificate	Householder works	£103
Lawful development certificate	Proposed use or operation	Half the normal fee for the development type
Lawful development certificate	Existing use or operation	Same as full fee for the development type
Lawful development certificate	Existing use of operation – lawful not to comply with any condition or limitation	£234
Non-material amendments
Householder	Non-material amendment to a householder application following grant of planning permission	£34
Other	Any other non-material amendment to an application following grant of planning permission	£234
Planning conditions
All application types	Removal or variation of a condition following grant of planning permission (including material amendments)	£234
Householder	Discharge of a planning condition	£34
All other application types (not including householder)	Discharge of a planning condition	£116
Reserved matters
Outline approval	Approval of reserved matters following outline approval	Full fee due or if full fee already paid then £462 due
Prior approval
Prior approval	Fee rate includes: larger home extensions additional storeys on a home demolition of buildings changes of use from Class E, or Betting Office or Pay Day Loan Shop, to mixed use including up to two flats change of use of a building and land from Classes E, C1, C2, or C2A to a State Funded School development consisting of the erection or construction of a collection facility within the curtilage of a shop installation, alteration or replacement of other Solar Photovoltaics (PV), on the roofs of non-domestic buildings, up to a capacity of 1 megawatt	£96
Prior approval	Fee rate includes: change of Use of Agricultural Building to a Dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) change of Use of a building from retail or a mixed Retail and residential Use, to a use falling within Use Class C3 (Dwellinghouse) change of Use from Amusement Arcades/Centres and Casinos, (Sui Generis Uses) and any land within its curtilage to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) change of Use from Shops (Use Class A1), Financial and Professional Services (Use Class A2), Betting Offices, Pay Day Loan Shops and Casinos (Sui Generis Uses) to Restaurants and Cafés (Use Class A3)	£206 if it includes building operations in connection with the change of use
Prior approval	Communications (previously referred to as ‘Telecommunications Code Systems Operators’)	£462
Prior approval	Change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from Commercial/Business/Service (Use Class E) to dwellinghouses (Use Class C3)	£100 for each home
Prior approval	Construction of new homes	£334 per home (up to 50 homes) £16,525 plus £100 for each homes (more than 50 homes)

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Planning application types and fees

How to pay your fee

Application types and fee

Application type

What this includes

Fee

Residential development

Non-residential development

Advertising

Lawful Development Certificates

Non-material amendments

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Reserved matters

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