{"id":36246,"date":"2023-04-21T17:27:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36246"},"modified":"2023-04-21T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:27:39","slug":"technical-consultation-increasing-planning-fees-and-performance-closes-25-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36246","title":{"rendered":"Technical consultation Increasing planning fees and performance: Closes 25\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23388\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Planning_BetterBuilding_Open_Gov_Licence3-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>The consultation on proposals to increase planning fees within local planning authorities in England closed on 25 April.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 tell us what you think about the proposals to\u2026. increase planning fees by 35%&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>GOV.UK writes (in the online <a href=\"https:\/\/consult.levellingup.gov.uk\/planning\/fees-and-performance\/\">Survey<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>This consultation seeks views on proposals to increase planning fees and to improve the performance of local planning authorities. We want you to tell us what you think about the proposals to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increase planning fees by 35% for major applications and 25% for all other applications<\/li>\n<li>additional fees for bespoke or \u2018fast track\u2019 services<\/li>\n<li>make an annual inflation-related adjustment to planning fees<\/li>\n<li>ring-fence additional fees income<\/li>\n<li>double fees for retrospective applications<\/li>\n<li>remove the \u2018free-go\u2019 for repeat applications<\/li>\n<li>introduce a prior approval fee for the permitted development right allowing the Crown to develop sites within the perimeter of a closed defence site<\/li>\n<li>build planning capacity and capability within local authorities, including challenges in recruitment and retention, and how these can be addressed<\/li>\n<li>reduce the Planning Guarantee from 26 weeks to 16 weeks for non-major applications<\/li>\n<li>improve the quality of the local authority planning service by monitoring more performance measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/consult.levellingup.gov.uk\/planning\/fees-and-performance\/\">Survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For background see the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/increasing-planning-fees-and-performance-technical-consultation\/technical-consultation-stronger-performance-of-local-planning-authorities-supported-through-an-increase-in-planning-fees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technical Consultation<\/a>: Stronger performance of local planning authorities supported through an increase in planning fees<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consultation on proposals to increase planning fees within local planning authorities in England closed on 25 April. image: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36248,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246\/revisions\/36248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}