# The Beacon Fen Energy Park Order 2026, Paragraph 27: Fees


(1) Where an application is made to the relevant planning authority for any consent, agreement or approval required by a requirement, a fee is to apply and must be paid to the relevant planning authority for each application.
(2) The fee payable for each application under sub-paragraph (1) is as follows—
(a) a fee of £2,578 for the first application for the discharge of each of the requirements 56 (detailed design approval), 57 (battery safety management), 58 (landscape and ecological management plan), 59 (biodiversity net gain) 61 (surface and foul water drainage), 63 (construction environmental management plan), 64 (construction traffic management plan), 67 (soils management), requirement 68 (skills, supply chain and employment), 70 (decommissioning and restoration), requirement 71 (flood risk) and requirement 73 (operational waste);
(b) a fee of £588 for each subsequent application for the discharge of each of the requirements listed in paragraph (a) and any application under requirement 56 in respect of the requirements listed in paragraph (a); and
(c) a fee of £298 for any application for the discharge of—
(i) any other requirements not listed in paragraph (a);
(ii) any application under requirement 54 (approved details and amendments to them) in respect of requirements not listed in paragraph (a); and
(iii) any approval required by a document referred to by any requirement or a document approved pursuant to any requirement.
(3) Any fee paid under this Part of this Schedule must be refunded to the undertaker within four weeks of—
(a) the application being rejected as invalidly made; or
(b) the relevant planning authority failing to determine the application within the relevant period in paragraph 24(1),
unless within that period the undertaker agrees, in writing, that the fee is to be retained by the relevant planning authority and credited in respect of a future application.
(4) The fees specified in sub-paragraph (2) shall be adjusted on each anniversary of the date this Order comes into force by a percentage equal to the index value of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) most recently published prior to that anniversary, provided that in no event shall any annual adjustment exceed 5%.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1025/schedule/2/paragraph/27 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/beacon-fen-energy-park-order-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-27
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