Payment of fees
3.—(1) Subject to Part 3 (applications where no fee is payable) and regulation 5 (waiving or reducing of fees), where an application to which these Regulations apply is made to a planning authority a fee is payable to that planning authority in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the fee payable for—
(a)an application for—
(i)planning permission,
(ii)planning permission in principle,
(iii)approval, consent or agreement required by a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission in principle,
(iv)a certificate of lawful use or development under section 150 or a certificate of proposed use or development under section 151 of the 1997 Act,
(v)a determination as to whether the planning authority’s prior approval is required in relation to development under schedule 1 of the General Permitted Development Order,
is the fee calculated in accordance with schedule 1,
(b)an application for a consent for the display of advertisements under regulation 15 of the 1984 Regulations is £300 in respect of each site on which one or more than one advertisement is to be displayed.
(3) The fee payable for an application for planning permission made under section 42 (applications to develop land without complying with previous conditions) of the 1997 Act, is £300.
(4) Any fee payable under this regulation must—
(a)accompany the application, and
(b)be refunded if the application is rejected as invalidly made.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b)—
(a)“site” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the 1984 Regulations, but
(b)where an application for a consent for the display of advertisements under regulation 15 of the 1984 Regulations relates to the display of advertisements on parking meters, litter bins, public seating benches or bus shelters within a specified area, the whole of the area to which the application relates is to be treated as one site.