The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Regulations 1997

Application, citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on the twenty-eighth day after the date on which they are made.

(2) These Regulations apply to:–

(a) applications made on or after the day these Regulations come into force for–

(i) any planning permission or deemed application for planning permission;

(ii) approval of reserved matters;

(iii) a certificate of lawful use or development under sections 90 or 90A of the 1972 Act(1);

(iv) consent for the display of advertisements;

(v) a determination as to whether the planning authority’s prior approval will be required in relation to development under Schedule 1 to the General Permitted Development Order.

(b) deemed applications for planning permission in connection with an enforcement notice issued on or after the day these Regulations come into force.

(3) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–

“the 1972 Act” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972(2);

“the 1984 Regulations” means the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Scotland) Regulations 1984(3);

“the General Permitted Development Order” means the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992(4);

“dwellinghouse” means a building or part of a building which is used as a single private dwellinghouse, and for no other purpose;

“outline planning permission” and “reserved matters” have the same meaning as in the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) (Scotland) Order 1992(5);

“the Schedule” means the Schedule to these Regulations;

“use of land” includes use of land for the winning and working of minerals.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, expressions used in these Regulations have, unless the context otherwise requires, the meaning which they bear in the 1972 Act.

(3) Expressions used in regulation 14 have, unless the context otherwise requires, the meaning which they bear in the 1984 Regulations.

(4) Any reference in these Regulations–

(a) to a numbered regulation, is a reference to the regulation so numbered in these Regulations;

(b) to a numbered paragraph, is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(c) to a numbered Table is a reference to the Table so numbered in Part III of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Fees for planning applications

3.—(1) Subject to regulations 4 to 9 and paragraph 8(3) of the Schedule, where an application is made to a planning authority for planning permission or for the approval of reserved matters, a fee shall be paid to that authority in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations.

(2) The fee payable in respect of the application shall be calculated in accordance with the Schedule.

(3) Where a fee is due in respect of an application it shall be paid to the planning authority with whom the application is lodged and shall accompany the application.

(4) Any fee paid under this regulation shall be refunded if the application is rejected as invalidly made.

Exceptions

4.—(1) Regulation 3 shall not apply where the planning authority to whom the application is made are satisfied that it relates solely to the carrying out of operations–

(a) in the curtilage or for the alteration or extension of a dwellinghouse, other than the erection of a dwellinghouse, for the purpose of providing means of access to or within the dwellinghouse for a disabled person who resides or proposes to reside in that dwellinghouse, or of providing facilities designed to secure his greater safety, health or comfort; or

(b) for the purpose of providing means of access for disabled persons to or within a building or premises to which members of the public are admitted.

(2) In this regulation, “disabled person” means a person who is blind, deaf, dumb, or substantially and permanently handicapped by illness, injury or congenital deformity, and includes a mentally disordered person of any description.

5.—(1) Regulation 3 shall not apply where the planning authority to whom the application is made are satisfied–

(a) (i) that the application relates solely to development which is within one or more of the classes, other than Class 18, specified in Schedule 1 to the General Permitted Development Order; and

(ii) that the permission granted by article 3 of that Order does not apply in respect of that development by reason of and only by reason of–

(aa) a direction made under article 4 of that Order which is in force on the date when the application is made; or

(bb) the requirements of a condition imposed on a permission granted or deemed to be granted under Part III of the 1972 Act otherwise than by that Order; or

(b) that the application relates to development on land used for the purposes of agriculture, other than dwellinghouses or the buildings excluded by virtue of paragraph (2)(d) of Class 18 in Schedule 1 to the General Permitted Development Order from that class, and the development is to be used for purposes incidental to that use.

(2) The reference in paragraph (1)(a)(i) to an application which relates to development which is within one or more of the classes specified in Schedule 1 to the General Permitted Development Order shall include an application for planning permission for the continuance of a use of land, or the retention of buildings or works, without compliance with a condition subject to which a previous planning permission has been granted, and which prohibits or limits the carrying out of any development which is within one or more of the said classes.

6.  Regulation 3 shall not apply where the planning authority to whom the application is made are satisfied–

(a) that the application relates solely to the use of a building or other land for a purpose of any class specified in the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1989(6);

(b) that the existing use of that building or other land is for another purpose of the same class; and

(c) that the making of an application for planning permission in respect of the use to which the application relates is necessary by reason of and only by reason of a condition imposed on a permission granted or deemed to be granted under Part III of the 1972 Act.

7.  Where all the conditions set out in regulation 8 and applicable to paragraph (a) or (b), as the case may be, are satisfied, regulation 3 shall not apply to an application which is made by the same applicant for–

(a) planning permission for development of the same character or description as development to which an earlier application relates and to no other development and following–

(i) the withdrawal, before notice of decision was issued, of that earlier application for planning permission;

(ii) the granting of planning permission for the development;

(iii) the refusal of planning permission; or

(iv) the making of an appeal to the Secretary of State under Section 34 of the 1972 Act (appeal in default of planning decision) in relation to an application for planning permission; or

(b) approval of one or more reserved matters following–

(i) the withdrawal before notice of decision was issued of an application for approval of the same reserved matters;

(ii) the granting of approval of the same reserved matters;

(iii) the refusal to approve the same reserved matters; or

(iv) the making of an appeal to the Secretary of State under section 34 of the 1972 Act in relation to an application for approval of the same reserved matters,

authorised by the same outline planning permission.

8.  The conditions referred to in regulation 7 are–

(a) that the application is made within 12 months of the date–

(i) when the earlier application was made, in the case of a withdrawn application;

(ii) of the relevant grant of planning permission or grant of approval of details of reserved matters, as the case may be;

(iii) of the refusal; or

(iv) when under the relevant provisions of the General Permitted Development Order, the period for the giving of notice of a decision on the earlier application expired, in the case of an application which is made following an appeal under section 34 of the 1972 Act;

(b) in the case of an application for planning permission which is not made in outline, that the planning permission which has been granted is not an outline planning permission or that the earlier application was also not made in outline;

(c) in the case of an application for planning permission, the application relates to the same site as that to which the earlier application related, or to part of that site, and to no other land except land included solely for the purpose of providing a different means of access to the site;

(d) in the case of an application for approval of reserved matters, the application relates to the same site as that to which the earlier application related, or to part of that site and to no other land;

(e) no application made by or on behalf of the same applicant in relation to the whole or any part of the site has already been exempted from regulation 3 by virtue of regulation 7 and this regulation; and

(f) the fee payable in respect of the earlier application was paid.

9.  Regulation 3 shall not apply to impose a fee in relation to an application to a planning authority for permission to carry out development consisting of the winning and working of minerals where the application–

(a) is for a permission which consolidates 2 or more subsisting permissions; or

(b) does not seek permission for development which is not authorised by a subsisting permission.

Fees for deemed applications

10.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (6), a fee shall be paid to the Secretary of State where an application for planning permission is deemed to have been made by virtue of section 85(7) of the 1972 Act(7) (in consequence of an appeal against an enforcement notice).

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) and regulation 15(2), the fee payable in respect of a deemed application shall be calculated in accordance with the Schedule.

(3) (a) This paragraph applies where an application is deemed to have been made by virtue of section 85(7) of the 1972 Act;

(b) where this paragraph applies–

(i) a fee shall be paid in respect of the application by every person who has made a valid appeal against the relevant enforcement notice;

(ii) the fee payable shall be twice the fee calculated in accordance with the Schedule;

(iii) half the fee shall be paid to the Secretary of State and the other half shall be paid to the planning authority which served the relevant enforcement notice.

(4) The fee due in respect of a deemed application shall accompany the written notice of the relevant appeal to the Secretary of State.

(5) In the case of an application deemed to have been made by virtue of section 85(7) of the 1972 Act, this regulation shall not apply where the person who has appealed against the relevant enforcement notice had–

(a) before the date when the notice was served, made an application to the planning authority for planning permission for the development to which the relevant enforcement notice relates and had paid the fee payable in respect of that application; or

(b) before the date specified in the notice as the date on which the notice is to take effect, made an appeal to the Secretary of State under section 33 of the 1972 Act,

and at the date when the relevant enforcement notice was served that application or, in the case of an appeal made before the date on which the enforcement notice is to take effect, that appeal, had not been determined.

(6) Regulations 4, 5 and 6 shall apply to a deemed application as they apply to an application for planning permission made to the planning authority, with the following modifications:–

(a) references to the planning authority to whom the application is made shall be construed as references to the Secretary of State; and

(b) references to the development to which the application relates shall be construed as references to the use of land or the operations to which the relevant enforcement notice relates.

Refunds of fees for deemed applications

11.—(1) In the case of an application deemed to have been made by virtue of section 85(7) of the 1972 Act, the amount of any fee paid in respect of the deemed application shall be refunded to the appellant in the following circumstances:–

(a) where the Secretary of State declines jurisdiction on the relevant appeal under section 85 of the 1972 Act(8) on the grounds that it does not comply with one or more of the requirements of subsection (1) of that section;

(b) where the Secretary of State under section 85(2C)of the 1972 Act(9) –

(i) dismisses the appeal on the grounds that the appellant has failed to comply with subsection (2A) within the time prescribed under subsection (2B)(a) of that section; or

(ii) allows the appeal and quashes the enforcement notice on the grounds that the planning authority failed to comply with any requirement imposed by virtue of paragraph (b), (c) or (e) of subsection (2B) of that section;

(c) where the planning authority withdraws the relevant enforcement notice before it takes effect or if the Secretary of State considers that there was no subject matter to appeal against since the purported enforcement notice had no legal effect; and

(d) save in the case of an application deemed to have been made in connection with an enforcement notice alleging a breach of planning control by the use of land as a caravan site or where, on the determination of the appeal, the Secretary of State issues a certificate under section 90 of the 1972 Act in accordance with section 85(5)(d) of that Act(10), where the Secretary of State allows the appeal against the relevant enforcement notice on any of the grounds set out in section 85(1)(b) to (e) of the 1972 Act.

(2) (a) In the event of the relevant appeal under section 85 or 91 of the 1972 Act(11) being withdrawn with the result that there are at least 21 days between the date of withdrawal and–

(i) the date or, in the event of postponement, the latest date appointed for the holding of an inquiry into that appeal; or

(ii) in the case of an appeal which is being dealt with by way of written submissions, the date or, in the event of postponement, the latest date appointed for the inspection of the site to which the enforcement notice relates,

any fee paid in respect of the deemed application shall be refunded to the appellant.

(b) For the purposes of this paragraph an appeal shall be treated as being withdrawn on the date on which notice in writing of the withdrawal is received by the Secretary of State.

(3) The reference in paragraph (2) to an appeal being dealt with by way of written submissions shall be construed as a reference to an appeal in respect of which no local inquiry is to be held under section 267 of the 1972 Act(12).

Fees for applications for certificates of lawful use or development

12.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), where an application is made to a planning authority under section 90 or 90A (certificate of lawful use or development) of the 1972 Act a fee shall be paid to that authority.

(2) This regulation shall not apply where the planning authority to whom the application is made are satisfied that it relates solely to the carrying out of operations specified in regulation 4 for the purposes specified in that regulation.

(3) Where all of the conditions set out in paragraph (4) are satisfied, this regulation shall not apply to–

(a) an application which is made following the withdrawal (before notice of decision was issued) of an application made by or on behalf of the same applicant;

(b) an application which is made following the refusal of an application (whether by the planning authority or the Secretary of State on appeal) made by or on behalf of the same applicant.

(4) The conditions referred to in paragraph (3) are–

(a) that the application is made within 12 months of–

(i) the date when the earlier application was made, in the case of a withdrawn application; or

(ii) the date of refusal, in any other case;

(b) that the application relates to the same site as that to which the earlier application related, or to part of that site and to no other land;

(c) that the planning authority to whom the application is made are satisfied that it relates to a use, operation or other matter of the same description as the use, operation or matter to which the earlier application related and to no other use, operation or matter;

(d) that the fee payable in respect of the earlier application was paid; and

(e) that no application made by or on behalf of the same applicant in relation to the whole or any part of the site has already been exempted from this regulation by paragraph (3).

(5) Subject to paragraphs (6) to (10), the fee payable in respect of an application to which this regulation applies shall be–

(a) in the case of an application under section 90(1)(a) or (b) (or under both paragraphs), the amount that would be payable in respect of an application for planning permission to institute the use or carry out the operations specified in the application (or an application to do both, as the case may be);

(b) in the case of an application under section 90(1)(c), £90, and on or after 1 October 1997, £95;

(c) in the case of an application under section 90A(1), half the amount that would be payable in respect of an application for planning permission to institute the use or carry out the operations specified in the application (or an application to do both, as the case may be).

(6) Where a use specified in an application under section 90(1)(a) is use as one or more separate dwellinghouses, the fee payable in respect of that use shall be £180 for each dwellinghouse, subject to a maximum of £9,000, and on or after 1st October 1997, shall be £190 for each dwellinghouse, subject to a maximum of £9,500.

(7) Where an application is made under section 90(1)(a) or (b) (or under both paragraphs) and under section 90(1)(c), the fee payable shall be the sum of the fees that would have been payable if there had been an application under section 90(1)(a) or (b) (or under both paragraphs, as the case may be) and a separate application under section 90(1)(c).

(8) In the case of an application which relates to land in the area of 2 or more planning authorities, paragraph 8 of Part II of the Schedule shall apply for the purpose of determining the authority to whom the fee shall be payable and the amount payable as it applies in the case of an application for planning permission which relates to such land.

(9) Where an application is made by or on behalf of a community council, established under section 51 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(13), the fee payable shall be one-half of the amount that would otherwise be payable in accordance with paragraphs (5) to (8).

(10) The fee due in respect of an application to which this regulation applies shall accompany the application when it is lodged with the planning authority.

(11) Any fee paid pursuant to this regulation shall be refunded if the application is rejected as invalidly made.

Fees for certain applications for the prior approval of the planning authority

13.—(1) Where an application is made to a planning authority for their determination as to whether the prior approval of the authority will be required in relation to development under Schedule 1 to the General Permitted Development Order a fee shall be paid to that authority of £33, and on or after 1 October 1997, £35.

(2) Any fee paid under this regulation shall be refunded if the application is rejected as invalidly made.

Fees for applications for consent for advertisements

14.—(1) Where an application is made to a planning authority under regulation 15 of the 1984 Regulations for consent for the display of an advertisement, a fee shall accompany the application and shall be paid to that authority in accordance with this regulation.

(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (3) to (7) the fee payable in respect of each site on which one or more than one advertisement is to be displayed shall be £90, and on or after 1 October 1997, £95.

(3) Where the application 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 shall be treated as one site for the purpose of this regulation.

(4) Where the application is made by a community council established under section 51 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 the amount of the fee payable in respect of the application shall be reduced by one half.

(5) Where all of the conditions set out in paragraph (6) are satisfied, this regulation shall not apply to an application for the display of advertisements which is made following–

(a) the withdrawal before notice of decision was issued; or

(b) the refusal of consent whether by the planning authority or by the Secretary of State on appeal,

in respect of an application for the display of advertisements made by the same person.

(6) The conditions referred to in paragraph (5) are–

(a) that the application is made within 12 months of–

(i) the date when the earlier application was made, in the case of a withdrawn application; or

(ii) in any other case, the date of refusal;

(b) that the application relates to the same site as that to which the earlier application related, or to part of that site;

(c) that the planning authority to whom the application is made are satisfied that it relates to an advertisement or advertisements, of the same description other than content, as the advertisement or advertisements to which the earlier application related;

(d) that the fee payable in respect of the earlier application was paid; and

(e) that no previous application has at any time been made by the same applicant which related to–

(i) the same site as the site to which the earlier application related; and

(ii) an advertisement of the same description other than content as any advertisement to which the earlier application related, and which was exempted from the provisions of this regulation by paragraph (5).

(7) No fee is payable under this regulation in respect of an application for consent to display an advertisement if the application is occasioned by direction under regulation 11 of the 1984 Regulations disapplying regulation 10 in relation to that advertisement.

(8) Any fee paid under this regulation shall be refunded if the relevant application is rejected as invalidly made.

Revocation

15.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), and insofar as they have not been revoked already, the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Regulations 1990(14), the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990(15), the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991(16), the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992(17), the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1992(18) the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993(19) and the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994(20) are hereby revoked.

(2) The Regulations referred to in paragraph (1) shall continue to apply to applications for planning permission deemed to have been made by virtue of section 85(7) of the 1972 Act in connection with an enforcement notice served before the date when these Regulations come into force.

George Kynoch

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Scottish Office

2nd January 1997