Decision details

Further to Minute No. 145 of the meeting of the Planning Committee held on 8 February 2012, the Cabinet considered the report of the Director of Built Environment on the proposed fees and charges levied within the Planning Portfolio for 2012/13.

The report indicated that the Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations 2010 required the Council to annually review its Scheme of Building Regulation Charges.  The aim of the Scheme was to ensure that, taking one financial year with another, the income derived from performing the chargeable Building Control functions, as near as possible equates to the costs incurred in performing these functions.

This was a Key Decision and was included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions.

RESOLVED: That

(1)       approval be given to the revised fees and charges for 2012/13 set out in Annex A of the report and the revised contributions to be set out in Supplementary Planning Guidance; and

(2)       the Planning Committee be given delegated authority to approve the implementation of the proposed scale of fees for applications as soon as it becomes available and that the fees, together with any proposed subsequent amendments, be ratified by the Cabinet before their mandatory implementation.