Notes for the guidance of applicants
The Town and Country Planning (Fees for
Applications and Deemed Applications) (Amendment) (England) Regulations
2005 provide for the payment of fees to local planning authorities
in respect of applications for planning permission, approval
of matters reserved by an outline planning permission and applications
for consent for the display of advertisements. The following notes
contain a summary of the requirements; the Regulations in full are
available at the Council offices.
CALCULATION OF FEES
The amount of fee payable is determined by reference to the scale
of charges. If you are in doubt as to which fee is appropriate you
are advised to contact the Development Control Administration
Office for assistance. Tel: 01322 343071 or e-mail Planning.Admin@dartford.gov.uk
In some categories the scale of charges is related to site areas
and floor space.
In cases where the fee is related to the site area, the area used
is the total site area to which the application relates. In cases
where the fee is related to the floor space, this is the gross floor
space involved or created by the development and should be ascertained
by external measurement. In both cases any fraction of unit of measurement
is treated as a whole for calculation of the fee.
For applications involving mixed development, i.e. residential and
non-residential, the fees appropriate for each proportion of the
development should be added for the final fee.
Where an application involves a single development, which by its
nature falls within more than one fee category, then the fee payable
is the higher one.
Where an application for approval of reserved matters is made following
a previous application or applications, made in respect of the same
outline permission by or on behalf of the same application and the
full fees have been paid as if an application had been made in respect
of all the reserved matters relating to the whole development, then
a flat fee is payable (see Schedule for fee payable).
Applications for alternative proposals by or on behalf of the same
applicant relating to the same site and submitted on the same day
are charged a total fee comprising an amount equal to the highest
fee that is required, plus an amount equal to half of the total
fees that would be required for the other application.
For advertisement applications which relate to advertisements on
more than one site, the fee is the aggregate of the sums payable
for each advertisement. Where the application relates to more than
one advertisement on the same site, a single fee is required.
If an advertisement application relates to the placing of advertisements
on parking meters, litter bins, bus shelters, etc., within a specific
area then the whole area is treated as one site.
Applications made by or on behalf of a Parish or community council
require half the appropriate fee.
Where applications involve land within more than one Local Authority area, you are advised to contact the Local Authority within which the greater part of the land falls.
