Local authority fees under High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013: FOI release
- Published
- 24 March 2021
- Directorate
- Safer Communities Directorate
- FOI reference
- FOI/202100158151
- Date received
- 16 February 2021
- Date responded
- 2 March 2021
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Information requested
Detail on the fees set by each local authority in Scotland to proceed with an application under the high hedges act.
Response
The Scottish Government does not routinely collect or hold the information requested as these are matters for individual local authorities. However, as part of an ad hoc information gathering exercise in 2020/21, the Scottish Government did receive the information collated in the table below:
| Local Authority |
Fee Applied |
| Aberdeen City |
£395 |
| Aberdeenshire |
£450 |
| Angus |
£275 |
| Argyll and Bute |
£450 |
| City of Edinburgh |
£350 plus £100 for any additional property to be assessed plus £100 if more than 6 hedge owners. |
| Clackmannanshire |
£401 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar |
£382 |
| Dumfries and Galloway |
£450 |
| Dundee City |
£400 |
| East Ayrshire |
£400 |
| East Dunbartonshire |
£401 |
| East Lothian |
£402 |
| East Renfrewshire |
£477.50 |
| Falkirk |
£401 |
| Fife |
£385 |
| Glasgow City |
£500 |
| Highland |
£450 |
| Inverclyde |
£202 |
| Midlothian |
£300 |
| Moray |
£425.39 |
| North Ayrshire |
£382 |
| North Lanarkshire |
£450 (£225 for disabled applicants) |
| Orkney Island |
£401 |
| Perth and Kinross |
£300 |
| Renfrewshire |
£200 |
| Scottish Borders |
£400 |
| Shetland Islands |
£0 |
| South Ayrshire |
£495 |
| South Lanarkshire |
£401 |
| Stirling |
£192 |
| West Dunbartonshire |
£404 |
| West Lothian |
£401 |
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