Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) Regulations 1989 (the 1989 Regulations). The 1989 Regulations make provision for the payment of fees to local planning authorities in respect of applications made under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and for the payment of fees to the Secretary of State in respect of applications for planning permission which are deemed to have been made in connection with an appeal against an enforcement notice.

These Regulations amend the 1989 Regulations to provide for the payment of fees in respect of site visits carried out by local planning authorities to mining sites and landfill sites to monitor compliance with the planning permissions to which they are subject. The Regulations also provide for situations where there is more than one operator on site, where the site is inactive, and where two or more sites are grouped together for the purpose of monitoring, and limit the number of chargeable visits in any one year.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations. It has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament and copies may be obtained from MWP Division, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Zone 4/C2, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DU (Telephone: 020 7944 8138).