The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
| Year | 2020 |
2020 No. 836
Town And Country Planning, England
The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Made 5th August 2020
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 303(1), (5) and (6) and 333(2A) of the Town and Country Planning Act 19901, makes the following Regulations.
In accordance with section 303(8)(a) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020.
(2) These Regulations come into force on the twenty eighth day after the day on which they are made.
(3) In these Regulations “the 2012 Regulations” means the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) Regulations 20122.
Amendments in relation to fees for certain applications under the General Permitted Development Order
2.—(1) Regulation 14 of the 2012 Regulations is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
(a)
(a) omit “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (a); and
(b)
(b) at the end of sub-paragraph (b) insert—
“; and
(c)
(c) for an application under Part 20 (construction of new dwellinghouses) of that Schedule—
where the number of new dwellinghouses proposed by the development as specified in the written statement accompanying the application is 50 or fewer, £334 for each new dwellinghouse;
where the number of new dwellinghouses proposed by the development as specified in the written statement accompanying the application exceeds 50, £16,525, and an additional £100 for each new dwellinghouse in excess of 50, subject to a maximum in total of £300,000.”.
(3) After paragraph (1B), insert—
“1C. Where all the conditions set out in paragraph (1D) are satisfied, this regulation shall not apply to impose a fee in relation to an application of a type described in paragraph (1)(c) (“the approval application”) which is made following the determination or withdrawal of an earlier valid application of a type described in paragraph (1)(c) by or on behalf of the same applicant (“the earlier approval application”).
1D. The conditions referred to in paragraph (1C) are—
(a) that the approval application is made within 12 months of—
in the case of an earlier approval application which was withdrawn, the date when that application was received by the local planning authority; or
in any other case, the...
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