Submission of details pursuant to planning conditions

 

Many planning permissions are granted subject to planning conditions. Some of the planning conditions require further details to be submitted to the Council for approval.

There is a fee payable to the Council when you submit details pursuant to planning conditions. The fee payable is £85 per request to discharge conditions (or £25 if the discharge of condition relates to a planning permission for extending or altering a dwellinghouse or other development in the curtilage of a dwelling). The fee must be paid when the request is made. Until the fee has been paid planning officers will not carry out any work in respect of the submitted details.

All requests for discharging planning conditions should be made in writing and ideally on the national application form designed for this purpose (which can be submitted electronically via the Planning Portal (this is an external hyperlink) or a paper copy (this is an external hyperlink) printed off.  If you submit the details on paper, you must supply four copies of any supporting plans or information with your submission.

If you choose to send a covering letter rather than fill in the national application form you must ensure that all the relevant information requested in the application form is contained within your covering letter.

By way of clarification, if details are submitted to discharge a number of conditions at the same time then just one fee of either £85 or £25 would be payable. If details to discharge conditions are submitted on a number of separate occasions then a fee of either £85 or £25 would be payable on each occasion.

We will send an acknowledgement letter to you confirming the receipt of the details pursuant to conditions. We will endeavour to provide you with a decision upon your submission as soon as possible. Should we refuse your submission or if we do not make a decision within 8 weeks, you have a right of appeal to the Secretary of State. The Regulations also require that we pay back your fee if we do not provide you with a decision within 12 weeks.

Wherever possible, and having regard to the timescales set out above, we will contact you to discuss details we are unhappy with before making any decisions. If however a submission is considered to fall short of what is required by Government guidance  (e.g. a superficial contamination assessment is submitted for a site with known contamination) we will issue a refusal notice without discussion. The Regulations do not provide for a ‘free go’ and therefore a further submission would require a further fee. If you are in any doubt as to what level of information needs to be submitted, please contact us in advance so that we can discuss the requirements with you.

For further information contact Regulatory Services on email planningadvice@fareham.gov.uk.