{"id":147695,"date":"2025-01-24T07:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T07:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=147695"},"modified":"2025-01-23T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:53:26","slug":"mpa-say-increased-planning-application-fees-wont-boost-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/mpa-say-increased-planning-application-fees-wont-boost-budgets\/147695\/","title":{"rendered":"MPA say increased planning application fees won\u2019t boost budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Mineral Products Association have released a statement stating that the government\u2019s price increases for planning applications will not have the desired effect on local authority\u2019s budgets<\/h2>\n<p>The Government has stated that the increase to planning application fees will bring in an extra \u00a350m per year to fund local planning authority services<\/p>\n<p>The proposed increases will see an increase from \u00a3258 to \u00a3528 for enlargement, improvement, or other alteration of a single dwelling house, while for two or more will see a price increase from \u00a3509 to \u00a31,043.<\/p>\n<h3>The planning application fees increase is set to go in effect on 1 April<\/h3>\n<p>Other price increases in the proposal, <a href=\"https:\/\/commonsbusiness.parliament.uk\/Document\/91437\/Html?subType=Standard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">originally put before parliament on 12 January<\/a>, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior approval applications that don\u2019t involve building operations \u2013 increase from \u00a3120 to \u00a3240<\/li>\n<li>Prior approval applications that involve building operations \u2013 increase from \u00a3258 to \u00a3516<\/li>\n<li>Prior approvals relating to the change of use of Class E uses to residential uses \u2013 increase from \u00a3125 to \u00a3250<\/li>\n<li>Householder applications will be \u00a386<\/li>\n<li>Non-major developments will be \u00a3586<\/li>\n<li>Major developments will be \u00a32,000<\/li>\n<li>Application for approval of details reserved by condition will increase from \u00a343 to \u00a386 for householders, and from \u00a3145 to \u00a3298 for any other development<\/li>\n<li>Base payment for applications over 50 dwellings from \u00a330,860 to \u00a331,3856<\/li>\n<li>Base payment for agricultural development between 1,000-4,215sqm increasing from \u00a3624 to \u00a35,077<\/li>\n<li>Submission fee for the Biodiversity Gain Plan increasing from \u00a3145 to \u00a3298<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many businesses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/bcc-says-planning-reform-must-move-quickly\/144068\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously indicated<\/a> that they would be willing to pay increased planning fees, so long as they led to real improvements in the services they receive.<\/p>\n<h3>The Mineral Products Association warns against planning application fees<\/h3>\n<p>Instead of just flat increases, the MPA has instead called for \u2018ring-fenced\u2019 in order to boost investment and improvement for under-funded planning departments. This has previously been recommended to the Government, in order to help face shortfalls in other Government areas.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Russell, MPA executive director for Environment and Mineral Planning, said: \u201cThe suggestion from MHCLG that raising planning fees will enable local authorities to provide a quicker, better service is na\u00efve and completely ignores the fact that there is no guarantee this income will be invested in planning services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the funding challenges and statutory obligations on local authorities, without safeguarding the money for planning departments, we have zero confidence that there will be any noticeable improvement from the fee increases, with the\u00a0additional\u00a0income simply being used to offset council budget deficits elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is widespread agreement, even in Government, that planning teams need investment in capacity and skills to deliver the quality and speed of service the mineral products industry relies on. Without planning consent to extract, produce and transport construction materials, Government ambitions for housing and infrastructure could be restricted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlanning bureaucracy is often cited as a key barrier to investment and growth, so this is a missed opportunity that doesn\u2019t just create a problem for our industry but for UK construction and manufacturing, and the UK economy as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mineral Products Association have released a statement against the proposed increases to planning application fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":147698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[276,679,649],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-local-plan","10":"tag-planning-applications"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MPA say increased planning application fees won\u2019t boost budgets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mineral Products Association have released a statement against the proposed increases to planning application fees\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/mpa-say-increased-planning-application-fees-wont-boost-budgets\/147695\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MPA say increased planning application fees won\u2019t boost budgets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Mineral Products Association have released a statement against the proposed increases to planning application fees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/mpa-say-increased-planning-application-fees-wont-boost-budgets\/147695\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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