Planning circular 1/2026: planning fees for applications, local reviews and appeals

Fees for applications for certificates of lawful use or development

C.34 Certificates of lawfulness of existing use or development

An appeal relating to an application for a certificate of lawfulness of existing use is subject to a fee which would be payable in respect of an appeal in respect of an application to institute the use or carry out the operations specified in the application (except where the application was made under section 150(1)(c) of the 1997 Act in which case the fee is £149).

C.35 Certificates of lawfulness for proposed use or development

For an appeal relating to whether any proposed use of buildings or other land is lawful or if any operations which are proposed to be carried out in, on or over land would be lawful the fee is half the amount that would be payable in respect of an appeal 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).

Where the proposed use specified is use as one or more separate dwellinghouses the fee is £297 for each dwellinghouse, subject to a maximum of £74,210.