# The Sunnica Energy Farm Order 2024, Paragraph 5: Fees

Extent: E+W

(1) Where an application is made to the relevant authority for consent, agreement or approval in respect of a requirement only, a fee is to be paid to that relevant authority as follows—
Requirement
Fee
Category 1: Design and management approval – first application made under a requirement to the relevant authority
Requirement 6: Detailed design approval
Requirement 8: Landscape and ecology management plan
Requirement 10: Stone curlew
Requirement 11: Fencing and other means of enclosure
Requirement 12: Surface and foul water drainage
Requirement 14: Construction environmental management plan
Requirement 15: Operational environmental management plan
Requirement 21: Permissive paths
Requirement 22: Decommissioning and restoration
£2,028
Category 2: Design approval – subsequent applications made under a requirement to the relevant authority following the first application pursuant to Category 1
Requirement 6: Detailed design approval
Requirement 8: Landscape and ecology management plan
Requirement 10: Stone curlew
Requirement 11: Fencing and other means of enclosure
Requirement 12: Surface and foul water drainage
Requirement 14: Construction environmental management plan
Requirement 15: Operational environmental management plan
Requirement 21: Permissive paths
Requirement 22: Decommissioning and restoration
£462
Category 3a: re-approvals for applications made under Category 1 and 2, and applications made under Requirement 5
(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
(ii) Requirement 5: Approved details and amendments to them
£462
Category 3b: re-approvals for applications made under Category 4
In respect of re-approvals of matters previously approved under Category 4.
£116
Category 4: all applications made under other requirements set out below
Requirement 3: Phasing of the authorised development and date of final commissioning
Requirement 7: Fire safety management
Requirement 13: Archaeology
Requirement 16: Construction traffic management plan
Requirement 17: Operational noise
Requirement 18: Ground conditions
Requirement 19: Water management plan
Requirement 20: Skills, supply chain and employment
Requirement 23: Crash site exclusion area
Requirement 24: Public rights of way
£116
(2) Any fee paid under this Schedule must be refunded to the undertaker if the relevant authority fails to determine the application within 8 weeks, unless—
(a) within that period the undertaker agrees, in writing, to a longer period; or
(b) within that period the undertaker agrees, in writing, that the fee is to be retained by the relevant authority and credited in respect of a future application to be made under this Schedule.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/802/schedule/13/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sunnica-energy-farm-order-2024/schedule-13/paragraph-5
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