Exemptions from Fee Payment
Fees are not required for the following types of applications:
1. Applications for Listed Building
Consent.
2. Applications for certificate
of appropriate alternative development.
3. Applications to lop
or fell trees subject to tree preservation orders.
4. Applications by or on behalf of
registered disabled persons for extensions and alterations to their
dwelling house
or within its curtilage,
designed to secure their greater safety, health or comfort (including
applications made prior to the occupancy of a disabled person),
or involving the provision of means of access for disabled persons
to or within a building or premises to which members of the public
are admitted.
5. Applications required because of
the removal of permitted development rights by a condition or by
an Article 4 direction.
6. Application for the winning and working of minerals
involving the consolidation of two or more subsisting permissions
but not including permission for development not authorised by a
subsisting permission.
7. Revised applications which are submitted within
12 months of the original grant of planning
permission or approval of one or more reserved matters, provided
that:
a)the application relates to the same site
or to part of the site (save in a case where additional
land is shown for means of access);
b)in the case of reserved matters that it
relates to the same land or part of land;
c) if a full application, the previous application
was not in outline.
(Note: Only allowed for one subsequent application by or on behalf
of the same applicant).
8. Applicants for permission or approval of reserved
matters, following the withdrawal or refusal of
a previous identical application. This is provided that:
a) in the case of withdrawal, it is
received within 12 months of the lodging of the previous
withdrawn application;
b) In the case of refusal, it is received within
12 months of the refusal by the Local Planning
Authority (or Secretary of State on appeal) of the previous application;
c) the application relates to the same
site, or to part of the site (save in the case where additional
land is shown for means of access);
d) in the case of reserved matters
that it relates to the same land or part of land;
e) if a full application, the previous
application was not in outline.
Advertisement applications required by virtue of a direction
under regulation 7 of the 1992 Regulations removing the right to
display an advertisement under regulation 6 of the 1992 Regulations.
10. Advertisement applications made following the withdrawal
or refusal of a previous identical application made by or on behalf
of the same applicant and relating to the same site or to part of
the site provided the application is received:
a) in the case of a withdrawal,
within 12 months of the lodging of the previously withdrawn application;
b) in the case of a refusal, within
12 months of the date of the refusal by the Local Planning Authority
(or Secretary of State on appeal) of the previous application.
(Note: Only one subsequent application allowed).
