Planning application fees are to increase from 01 April 2022, the Scottish Government has announced.

The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 means that fees will increase, in most cases, between 25% and 50%.

Details of the fees will be published in due course. Notable changes are:

• Applications for extensions and other alterations to dwellinghouses increase from £202 to £300

• Applications to build new dwellinghouses increases from £401 to £600 per dwellinghouse for the first 10 homes, £450 per additional dwellinghouse between 11 and 49 and £250 for each further additional dwellinghouse from 50 upwards. The maximum fee will be £150,000


• Applications to change the use of a building increase from £401 to £600

• Applications to change the use of land increase from £401 to £500 per 0.1 hectares of site area

• Discretion to charge for pre-application discussions, the variation of planning permissions, confirmation of compliance with planning conditions

• Discretion in limited circumstances to waive or reduce application fees

• Discretion to impose a surcharge on retrospective applications

This is the first fee increase in 8 years to the standard planning application fee.

The intention of Scottish Government is that the increase will help planning authorities move towards fully recovering the cost of dealing with planning applications and additional planning duties coming from NPF4 and the Scottish Government transforming planning agenda.