Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Appeals) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (“the Fees for Appeals Regulations”) and the Town and Country Planning (Hazardous Substances) (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 3 of the Fees for Appeals Regulations to increase the fees for an appeal in respect of the consent for the display for advertisements under regulation 15 of the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Scotland) Regulations 1984 and for an application to develop land without complying with previous conditions.

Regulation 4(a)(i)-(iii) changes the respective categories referred to in provisions about maximum fees for appeal in respect of planning permissions in principle granted in different time periods.

Regulation 4(a)(iv) inserts a new paragraph 9A into Part 1 of the schedule of the Fees for Appeals Regulations to set a maximum fee for certain fees for appeal in respect of applications for planning permission granted on or after 9 June 2025 and before 1 April 2026.

Regulation 4(b) amends Part 2 of the schedule to the Fees for Appeals Regulations to increase the fees for appeal in respect of the applications for planning permission for the provision of facilities for sport or recreation and applications for approval, consent or agreement required by a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission in principle.

Regulation 4(c) also makes changes to fees for appeal in relation to planning permission. It substitutes new tables for those in Part 3 of the schedule of the Fees for Appeals Regulations.

Regulation 5 provides that the changes made by these Regulations apply only to appeal made after 1 April 2026.

Regulation 6 amends the Town and Country Planning (Hazardous Substances) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 to increase fees for appeal in relation to applications made under those Regulations.