updated Planning Application Fees 2025

In April 2025, significant changes to planning application fees in England took effect. These planning appication fee changes stemmed from the 2024 consultation  by Governemnt on the National Planning Policy Framework .

The aim of the changes is to amend the fees to better reflect the actual osts incurred by Local Planning Authorities in determining householder and prior approval applications, as well as to the cost of applications that seek to discharge, vary, or remove conditions on planning consents

What are the key changes to planning application fees in 2025?

​Inflationary Uplift
A 1.7% inflationary increase will be applied to all planning fees,

Cost Recovery Changes
Targeted fee increases for:

• Householder applications
• Prior approval applications
• Discharge of conditions and variation/removal of conditions applications

Householder Application Fees

• For alterations or extensions to houses, the application fee will more than double, rising from £258 to £528.
• For smaller ancillary works the increase will be much smaller from £258 to £262.

Prior Approval Fees

• Fees for most prior approval applications will also see a significant increase, doubling in many cases. The following is a breakdown of these increases:
  • Large home extension (less the 8 metres deep) - from £120 to £240
  • Additional storeys on a home - from £120 to £240
  • Demolition of buildings - from £120 to £240
  • Change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from Commercial/Business/Service (Use Class E) to a house(s) is (Use Class C3) from £125 to £250 for each house
  • Change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from an Agricultural Building to house (Use Class C3) - £240; or £516 if it includes building operations in connection with the change of use. This is also known as a Class Q Application 

Discharge of Conditions Fees

• Fees for discharging conditions will also double:
  • Householder development: £43 to £86
  • Any other development: £145 to £298

Variation/Removal of Condition Fees

• These fees will now be split into three bands:
  • Householder development: £86 
  • Non-major development: £586
  • Major development: £2,000

Corrections
Corrections have also be made to previous fee schedules:

• The base fee for buildings where floorspace exceeds 3,750 square metres will be corrected to £30,860 (instead of £30,680), with the inflationary increase applied to the corrected value.
• The banding for agricultural buildings will be fixed to ensure more consistent transitions between fee categories. Previously, the fee for agricultural buildings exceeding 1,000 square metres dropped to £624, which was not intentional.

​No Changes to Fee ExemptionsIt’s important to note that no changes are being made to the current fee exemptions. This means that some types of planning applications, such as those for certain small developments or changes, will not be subject to these fee increases.

Applications submitted via the Planning Portal
The new Planning Portal Service Charge will be £85