Issue - meetings

To consider changes to the charging structure for non statutory planning advice to provide consistency county-wide.

(Report and Appendix 1 attached.  Appendix 2 to follow.)

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the schedule of charges, detailed at Appendix 1, be adopted and implemented by Planning Services from 1st April 2010; and

2)                 authority be delegated to Officers to maintain the fees at a standard county-wide level in future.

(Officers were asked to circulate Appendix 2 prior to the meeting of Council on 29th March 2010.)

Members considered a report which sought approval to alter the current scale of fees for Permitted Development enquiries and pre-application advice to a common county-wide scale of charges and approach to service provision and to maintain the fees at the same level as other districts within Worcestershire.  Officers were asked to circulate Appendix 2 prior to the meeting of Council on 29th March 2010.

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the schedule of charges, detailed at Appendix 1, be adopted and implemented by Planning Services from 1st April 2010; and

2)                 authority be delegated to Officers to maintain the fees at a standard county-wide level in future.

(Officers were asked to circulate Appendix 2 prior to the meeting of Council on 29th March 2010.)