FOI release

Planning application fees

Case reference FOI2025/00666

Received 4 June 2025

Published 25 June 2025

Request

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please could you provide answers to as many of the following questions as possible: * Please provide a breakdown of how the additional income generated from the increase in planning application fees introduced on 6 December 2023 has been allocated or spent. Where possible, please specify the services or functions supported and the amount allocated to each. * Has the additional income generated from the planning application fee increase introduced on 6 December 2023 been used exclusively to support the delivery of the Local Authority's planning function? * What percentage of residential planning applications (minor and major), submitted after 6 December 2023, have resulted in an agreed extension of time? * What percentage of residential planning applications (minor and major), submitted after 6 December 2023, have resulted in fee refunds under the Planning Guarantee?

Response

  • Please provide a breakdown of how the additional income generated from the increase in planning application fees introduced on 6 December 2023 has been allocated or spent. Where possible, please specify the services or functions supported and the amount allocated to each.

    We do not breakdown our income in this way, our fees go directly into the General Fund.

  • Has the additional income generated from the planning application fee increase introduced on 6 December 2023 been used exclusively to support the delivery of the Local Authority’s planning function?

    No.

  • What percentage of residential planning applications (minor and major), submitted after 6 December 2023, have resulted in an agreed extension of time?

    This information is available online in the planning performance section of gov.uk  

    Live tables on planning application statistics - GOV.UK

  • What percentage of residential planning applications (minor and major), submitted after 6 December 2023, have resulted in fee refunds under the Planning Guarantee?

    0%.

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