{"id":46447,"date":"2026-04-21T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46447"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:28:15","slug":"government-uk-consultation-on-fees-for-planning-applications-to-18-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46447","title":{"rendered":"Government UK consultation on \u2018Fees for planning applications\u2019, to 18\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This consultation seeks views on proposals to establish a new national default fee schedule for planning applications and on the principles of local fee setting, closing on 18 May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Government UK writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This consultation seeks views on proposals to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>establish a new national default fee schedule, based on 90% of estimated costs, to bring planning fees to a level closer to cost recovery and act as a baseline from which a new local fee setting model will operate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>introduce new fees and restructure existing fee categories in order to reduce complexity for users<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>implement a surcharge on planning fees for statutory consultees, set in the region of 10% of the national default fee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>establish the key principles behind local fee setting, as well as seek views on the potential to implement a cap on locally set fees<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>review the future role of discretionary services such as Planning Performance Agreements and pre-application advice in light of proposed increases to default fees and the introduction of the local variation model<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/fees-for-planning-applications\/fees-for-planning-applications\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This consultation seeks views on proposals to establish a new national default fee schedule for planning applications and on the principles of local fee setting, closing on 18 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,9,16,214],"class_list":["post-46447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-consultation","tag-government","tag-planning","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46447","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46448,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46447\/revisions\/46448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}