National planning fee increase

National planning fee increase - Planning fees will increase on 6 December 2023

Following debates in Parliament, the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 have been approved and made on 8 November.

The new regulations are as follows:

• increased planning application fees by 35% for applications for major development and 25% for all other applications
• introduction of an annual indexation of planning applications fees, capped at 10%, from 1 April 2025
• removal of the fee exemption for repeat applications (the ‘free-go’) - you'll still be able to benefit from a free-go if their application was withdrawn or refused in the preceding 12 months, subject to all other conditions for the free-go being met
• reduction of the Planning Guarantee for non-major planning applications from 26 to 16 weeks
• introduction of a new prior approval fee of £120 for applications for prior approval for development by the Crown on closed defence sites

The new fees will come into force from 6 December 2023. Read the full details here.