Planning Application Fees

Please note- planning and certain other types of applications are subject to fees which have to be sent in with your application. An application under the building regulations may also be required in addition to a planning application and has to have a separate fee in addition.

Fees may be paid in cash. Cheques should be made payable to South Staffordshire District Council. Switch and credit cards can also be used to pay fees but please contact the Council first.

Applications required to be made only because of a direction under Article 4 of the General Permitted Development Order or only because a condition imposed on a previous planning permission took away the permitted development rights do not require a fee.

Where an application for planning permission or advertisement consent has been refused, withdrawn or where an appeal has been dismissed, one further application by the same applicant may be made without a fee, providing the later application is for the same character or description of development or advertisement on the same site, and is made within 12 months of the first decision or, in the case of a withdrawal, the date of the submission of the application.

A similar exemption applies when an appeal has been made against the council's failure to determine an application provided that the new application is made within 12 months of the expiry of the period for the determination.

Applications for a variation to a development previously permitted, made by the same applicant, provided that the development remains of the same character or description on the same site and the application is made within 12 months of the planning permission also do not require a fee.

Scale of planning fees for the most common types of application
Householder development (extensions, alterations, garages, sheds, fences/walls, new access to road)	£150
If two or more dwellings are involved	£295
Change of use If to create extra dwellings i.e. flat conversions	£335
per dwelling created	£335
New dwelling Full application (per dwelling)	£335 over 50 dwellings -£16,565 plus £100 for every additional dwelling up to a max of £250,000
Outline Application (per 0.1 hectare of site area)	£335 over 2.5ha -£8,285 plus £100 for every 0.1ha up to a max of £125,000
Other new buildings Full Application based on floorspace. If no increase or less than 40m². If 40m² - 75m². If 75m² - 3750m² If over 3750m² If in doubt ask for advice.	£170 £335 £335 per 75m² £16,565 plus £100 per every 75m²
Agricultural buildings (Other than dwellings, mobile homes, and stables)	Ask for advice
Conditions Continue use of land/building, without complying with condition. Variation of Condition. Renewal of permission	£85 per request £25 where the request relates to a specific permission for the extension or alteration of a dwelling or for other domestic development in the curtilage of a dwelling house.
Notifications Agricultural. Telecommunications. Demolition of Building	£ 70 £335 £ 70
Adverts Adverts on business premises Adverts not visible from the site to which they relate All other adverts	£ 95 £ 95 £335
Lawful Development Certificates	Ask for advice
Listed building and conservation area consents	No fee
Reduced/exemptions Parish Council Application	(50%)
Disabled applicant - when for works of improvement to a dwelling, or within curtilage of a dwelling to provide greater safety, health or comfort for resident/proposed resident of dwelling.	No fee