Planning Application Fees
Method of Calculation
3.1 The calculation of certain fees is based on the area to be developed. It is important that applications should clearly show the area which it is proposed to develop. This should be done by means of submitting a plan using metric measurement with the application site edged, or shaded, in red. This area will be taken as the application site for the purposes of calculation of the fee. Where an applicant wishes to develop only a part of his property there is no reason why he should not restrict his application to the part of the property where the development will be located by edging or shading that part of the property in red.
3.2 Normally, measurement of the gross floorspace should be ascertained by the internal measurement of the floorspace. However, for the purposes of the Fees Regulations (Schedule 1, Part 1 General Provisions Regulation 6), floorspace in the following categories should be calculated using the external measurement - that is including external walls:-
- The erection of industrial, commercial, community and other buildings (including the construction or extension of a non-nuclear electricity generating station) (Category 4);
- The erection on land used for the purposes of agriculture, of buildings to be used for agricultural purposes and for agricultural and commercial glasshouses (Category 6).
- An application for any material change of use which does not relate to a dwellinghouse/s (Category 11b).
If you are in doubt, your Divisional Planning Office will be able to help you.
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