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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sizewell-c-nuclear-generating-station-order-2022/schedule-24/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/853",
  "legislation_title": "The Sizewell C (Nuclear Generating Station) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sizewell-c-nuclear-generating-station-order-2022",
  "path": "schedule/24/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Fees",
  "text": "(1) Where an application is made to the discharging authority for agreement, endorsement or approval in respect of a requirement, a fee shall be paid to that discharging authority as follows—\nRequirement\nFee\nCategory 1: reserved matters (major)\nRequirement 17: Main development site: reserved matters\nIn accordance with sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4)\nCategory 2: minor reserved matter and other details\nRequirement 5: Project wide: surface and foul water drainage\nRequirement 15: Main development site: outage car park\nRequirement 18: Sports facilities: reserved matters\nRequirement 19: Main development site: marine infrastructure\nRequirement 20: Main development site: SSSI Crossing\nRequirement 22: Main development site: ancillary structures, other buildings and plant\nRequirement 23: Main development site: highway works\nRequirement 24: Main development site: landscape works\nRequirement 30: Accommodation campus: buildings and structures\nRequirement 33: Associated development sites: buildings and structures and landscape\nRequirement 35: Highway works\nRequirement 36: Associated development: highway landscape works\n£2,028\nCategory 3: re-approvals and ‘unless other agreed’\n(i) In respect of any Category 1 or Category 2 requirement where an application is made for discharge in respect of which an application has been made previously; and\n(ii) Approval of variations pursuant to the ‘unless otherwise agreed’ provisions of the following requirements\nRequirement 2: Project wide: code of construction practice\nRequirement 4: Project wide: terrestrial ecology monitoring and mitigation plan\nRequirement 8: Project wide: estate management\nRequirement 9: Main development site: site clearance\nRequirement 13: Main development site: temporary construction-related development\nRequirement 14: Main development site: construction lighting\nRequirement 16: Main development site: approved buildings, structures and plant\nRequirement 28: Main development site: permanent operational lighting\nRequirement 31: Rail infrastructure\nRequirement 32: Associated development sites: site clearance\n£462\nCategory 4: Other\nRequirement 3: Project wide: archaeology and peat\nRequirement 6: Project wide: emergency planning\nRequirement 7: Project wide: navigation lighting\nRequirement 10: Project wide: public rights of way\nRequirement 11: main development site: water monitoring and management plan\nRequirement 12: main development site: coastal processes monitoring and mitigation plan\nRequirement 25: main development site: fen meadow\nRequirement 26: main development site: wet woodland\nRequirement 27: main development site: marsh harrier\nRequirement 38: associated development sites: removal and reinstatement\nRequirement 39: rail noise\n£116\nCalculation of Category 1 fees\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) and (4) below, applications for discharge of requirement 17 shall be calculated as follows—\n(a) where the area of gross floor space to be created by the development does not exceed 40 metres, £234;\n(b) where the area of the gross floor space to be created by the development exceeds 40 square metres, but does not exceed 75 square metres, £462;\n(c) where the area of the gross floor space to be created by the development exceeds 75 square metres, but does not exceed 3750 square metres, £462 for each 75 square metres of that area;\n(d) where the area of gross floor space to be created by the development exceeds 3750 square metres, £19,049; and an additional £115 for each 75 square metres.\n(3) For the purpose of the calculation of fees pursuant to paragraph 3(2)—\n(a) the area shall be taken as consisting of the area of land to which the application relates;\n(b) the area of gross floor space created by the development shall be ascertained by external measurement of the floor space, whether or not it is bounded (wholly or partly) by external walls of a building;\n(c) the gross floor space to be created by the development exceeds 75 square metres and is not an exact multiple of 75 square metres, the area remaining after division of the total number of square metres of gross floor space by the figure of 75 shall be treated as being 75 metres.\n(4) The maximum total fee payable for discharge of requirement 17 shall be £300,000.\nRefund of fees\n(5) Any fee paid under this Schedule shall be refunded to the undertaker within 8 weeks of—\n(a) the application being rejected as invalidly made; or\n(b) the discharging authority failing to determine the application within the decision period as determined under paragraph 1, unless within that period the undertaker agrees, in writing, that the fee shall be retained by the discharging authority and credited in respect of a future application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/853/schedule/24/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:56:59.101250+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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