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Charging for Pre–application Planning Advice
Members Seminar 31 March 2014
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Background
• Part of budget saving exercise• Safer Communities Overview and Scrutiny 20
November 2013: Potential Mitigation Options• Council 28 January 2014 approved mitigation
measures
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Statutory Duties of LPA:Core Function
• LPA has a statutory duty to process planning applications
• Fees for applications are set nationally by WG• Majority of applications should be determined
within 8 weeks (mandatory requirement)• Statutory duty to discharge conditions• No fee for discharging conditions
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Non Statutory Functions
• Pre application advice• Advice on whether planning permission
required• Other general planning enquiries
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Pre Application Advice
• Not statutory but encouraged by WG• Service currently provided free of charge• Includes advice from other Departments –
highways, countryside, recreation, housing, education etc
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Pre application advice
• Local Government Act 2003 provides Councils with the ability to charge for discretionary services
• Some neighbouring LPA’s already charging for this service:
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Benefits of pre application advice
• Speeds up planning application process• Improves quality of proposed developments• Early identification of issues• Early identification of community and/or local
concerns• Helps to foresee problems early when
solutions more readily found• Reduces unacceptable planning applications
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category Service offered Newport CCStrategic (100+ houses) Meeting + letter £850 Additional meeting + letter £400Large Major letter £300 (25 – 99 houses) Meeting + letter £500 Additional letter £150 Additional meeting + letter £250Major letter £200 (10 – 24 houses) Meeting and letter £300 Additional letter £100 Additional meeting and letter £200Minor Letter £60 (under 10 houses) Meeting and letter £120 Additional letter £30 Additional meeting and letter £60Householder and other minor
No charge. £30 for meeting or SV
other minor, LB’s, TPO’s, voluntary organisations etc
No charge
General enquiries £50 per hour
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Consultation Document:Positive Planning
• Development Management NOT Development Control
• Frontloading: pre app advice should become the norm
• Identify community and local concerns early in the process where solutions may be more readily found
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Consultation Document:Positive Planning
• Introduce legal duty to provide pre app service
• Requirement for pre application engagement with the community for major development
• Reasonable for a LPA to recover cost of such a service
• Consultation paper on fees for pre app advice to be issued shortly
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Advice on whether planning permission required
• Householder permitted development rights recently amended and now more complex.
• Officer advice on the need for planning permission is not a statutory function, nor is it binding on the LPA.
• But, application can be submitted for a formal determination which is binding. Fee is half the cost of an equivalent planning application
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Advice on whether planning permission required
• Advice available on line– Eg. Interactive House and Interactive Terrace
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk• Number of LPA’s referring customers to online
guidance or requiring submission of an application.
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Proposals: Pre app advice
• Introduce charge for pre application advice• Fees to be proportional to the development
proposed• No charge for householder pre application
advice unless site meeting requested • Service operated in accordance with a pre
application delivery service statement
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Proposals: Advice on ‘permitted development’
• Significantly reduce the level of advice on ‘permitted development’ rights
• Actively encourage submission of applications for Lawful Development Certificates (LDC’s) to ascertain whether planning permission required.
• Direct customers to existing guidance and on-line services
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Next Steps
• Customer Panel• Report to be circulated to all Members• Circular letter to local agents• Approval of fee levels from Executive Member• Preparation of a service delivery statement• Anticipated implementation Spring 2014