Planning - Charges for Documents and Services
Planning History Enquiries and Document Copying
Planning and Building Control
We can copy all development consents but there is a charge
| Item | Charges inc. VAT |
| Planning Decision Notices, Listed Building Approvals, Enforcement Notices. Order Copies and Pay Online. | £20.00 |
| Copies of Tree Preservation Orders - Whole Document. Order Copies and Pay Online. | £20.00 |
| Building Regulation Approval Notices and Completion Certificates. Order Copies and Pay Online. | £20.00 |
| We can supply photocopies of letters/reports etc. per page. However we cannot supply copies of submitted architects drawings or building plans. Nor can we supply copies of Ordnance Survey Plans. Both these items are the copyright property of the originator. | £1.00 |
| We can undertake an informal search of our records for your property and copy certain documents but there will be a charge for this service. You can Request a search of the Planning records or order a list of documents. | £25.00 per copied document |
| You can search Building Regulations database for records of work under construction | Free (currently being developed and not available) |
| You can request a manual search of the Building Regulations records by using the Building Regulations Online Form or sending a written request to Building Control. Note: this service will take approximately 1 week for a response to be returned. For urgently required information a written application for information can be sent in, together with a £35 charge payment and a response will be provided within 3 working days from receipt of the request. For more complicated or multiple record searches these will be subject to the minimum charge and additional hourly rate to be agreed before the search commences, depending upon the search complexity. |
£25.00 £35.00 Charges to be agreed on a job by job basis |
| Provision of late completion inspections and issue of completion certificates – this applies for jobs where no inspection have been made for 3 years or where we have formally written off the application. Payments are to be made in advance of inspection and completion request are to be made in writing. NOTE: Completion Certificates cannot be issued on projects prior to 1st January 2000. | £75 |
| Administration fee for building control refunds and adjustment of paperwork | £35 |
| Dangerous Building Callout rates: As each case has an individual set of circumstances and actions taken - individual charges will be due based upon the amount of time spent on the callout. All costs incurred by the council and its contractors will be recovered off the building owner. Callouts during normal working week hours Out of hours callouts. |
Minimum £75 callout rate (allows for upto 1hr spent on the callout) and our standard hourly rate there-after. Additional charges for contractors used to make safe the situation will also be charged Minimum £150 callout rate (allows for upto 1hr spent on the callout) and our standard out of hours hourly rate there-after. Additional charges for contractors used to make safe the situation will also be charged |
Page last updated: 11 September 2008