Pre-application Advice and Planning Fees

Pre-application advice and planning fees

The council will provide advice to prospective applicants to improve the quality of planning submissions by offering a pre-application service. The pre-application service is an additional chargeable service that the council provides.

The use of the pre-application service is encouraged as the more issues that can be resolved at the pre-application stage, the greater the benefits for all parties, for example, early engagement about a proposal can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the planning application process.

Please note – the council will only provide planning advice on proposals that come through the re-application paid for service. Planning advice from the council cannot be provided through any other route.

If you are seeking free of charge general planning advice, please visit the Government's Planning Portal website.

Pre-application forms as well as all of the Fees and Charges related to services that the Planning Department provide can be found below.

In addition you can find details of the Planning Application Fee (does not include pre-application fees) increase that is in place from 1 April 2025 here.

You can find details of the up-to-date Planning Application Fees here.

Planning pre-application advice - Approved fees and charges 2025-2026 (PDF Document, 59.52 Kb)

Pre-application forms

Form 1 - General pre-application advice form (Word Document, 80.64 Kb)

Form 1 should be used for all pre-application advice requests, other than those proposing the development of new homes.

Form 2 - New home(s) pre-application advice form (Word Document, 82.6 Kb)

Form 2 should be used for all pre-application advice requests relating to the development of new homes.