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How much does it cost?

Click on link to Planning Portal below

Planning Portal Fee Calculator

(Please note that this is an external website link and you need to enter Oswestry in the location field and login or register if you are a first time user, more information below)

A fee is payable to the Borough Council for most types of planning applications and for applications to display advertisements. These fees are additional to any which have to be paid under the Building Regulations.

Details of the basic charges, and particulars of exemptions from charges, are given with the planning application forms when they are given out. If any further help is needed in calculating the fee for your application, please telephone the Planning Department 01691 677252.

Requests for confirmation of compliance with planning conditions

1. Article 21 of The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995 provides that where an application has been made to a local planning authority for any consent, agreement, or approval required by condition or limitation attached to a grant of planning permission (other than an application for approval under Part 24 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995(a))2 or if the request would be in respect of a reserved matter, which should be the subject of a reserved matters application), the authority shall give notice to the applicant of its decision on the application within a period of eight weeks from the date when the authority received the application, or any longer period agreed in writing by the applicant and the authority. This remains as the usual mechanism by which a developer seeks to clear a condition.
    
2. A fee will henceforth be payable where a written request to the relevant local planning authority is made for any application, in accordance with article 21 of the General Development Procedure Order, where written confirmation is required that one or more conditions imposed on the same permission have been complied with. The fee chargeable by the authority is £85 per request (or £25 where the related permission was for extending or altering a dwellinghouse or other development in the curtilage of a dwellinghouse). The fee must be paid when the request is made, and cannot be required retrospectively. For these purposes, it does not matter when the relevant planning permission was granted. It may be that some conditions on a permission have already been discharged by 6 April 2008 (the earliest point at which a request can be made under regulation 11D of the Fees Regulations as amended). The request, identifying the permission and the conditions concerned, can be made in any written form which is clear and legible.
    
3. In most cases the local planning authority will be able to respond in less than eight weeks. Indeed, authorities should endeavour to respond within 21 days for simple approvals, though a longer period may be justified if an authority has itself to obtain evidence or confirmation of compliance from a third party, such as a statutory consultee. Where confirmation or indication that-confirmation cannot be given, has not been supplied within twelve weeks of receipt of the request, the request fee must be refunded. The period of twelve weeks is in order to provide sufficient time to the authority to confirm compliance, particularly where it needs to get confirmation from third parties.
    
4. If the local planning authority considers that a condition has not yet been complied with, the authority should explain to the applicant what remains to be done. It is expected that there will be an exchange of information in either written or other form in order to provide evidence of compliance. Where the exchange of information to secure compliance of a condition is ongoing, it is not necessary for a new request to be made to the authority. The authority should issue confirmation of compliance when satisfied, unless it finds that enforcement action or a retrospective planning application would be more appropriate in the circumstances.
    
5. To confirm clearance of more conditions, a further request, and a further fee, would be required if the developer needs written confirmation. An additional request for confirmation that a revised detail achieves compliance with a condition would be charged as if it were the first such request; there is no discount or 'free go' in this context.
    
6. The facility just described is not available if the is in respect of conditions imposed on a minerals or waste permission under Fee Categories 9(a) or 11 for which the inspection arrangements provided for in Statutory Instrument 2006 / 994 and regulation 11B already cater.
    
7. In order to vary the terms of a condition, it will still be necessary to make an application under section 73 or 73A of the Act. It is for the planning authority to decide which part of the Fees Regulations is applicable to an individual case.
    
8. Local planning departments may choose to 'clear' some conditions informally without seeking the new fee, where they find it appropriate and more efficient to do so. It will be for the developer to decide whether any approval provided will suffice, or whether he or she should pay the new fee and request a more formal statement of compliance.
    
9. Although administrative practices in one local planning authority may differ from those in another, planning department staff should make every effort to ensure that requests from different applicants within the same authority area are handled fairly and with similar attention to the timing and quality of outcome; inconsistency of treatment should be avoided.