Question follow-through · 49985
Planning Permission: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether councils can account for costs of planning appeals when calculating the level of planning fees in the context of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 2 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether councils can account for costs of planning appeals when calculating the level of planning fees in the context of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill contains a measure which would allow local planning authorities to set their own planning fees. The process for setting these fees will be set out in regulations. We will also publish guidance on the costs that may be ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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