As part of your application you will need to pay the correct fee. A list of fees is provided along with details of how and when to submit your payment. Alternatively an online fee calculator is available from the Planning Portal website. It can assist you by working out the cost of any particular planning application.
Making your Payment
In Person
The council operates 4 payment offices, details and opening times are as follows:
l Carmarthen - Council Offices, 3 Spilman Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1LE
l Llanelli - Ty Elwyn, Town Hall Square, Llanelli, SA15 3AP
Opening times: Monday to Thursday 8.45am to 5.00pm and Friday 8.45am to 4.30pm
l Ammanford - Town Hall, Iscennen Road, Ammanford, SA18 3BE
l Llandeilo - Municipal Offices, Crescent Road, Llandeilo, SA19 6HW
Opening times: Monday to Thursday: 8.45am to 1.00pm,1.45pm to 5.00pm
Friday: 8.45am to 1.00pm, 1.45pm to 4.30pm
(Please attach duplicate receipt to planning application as proof of payment)
By Post
Please attach the cheque, made payable to 'Carmarthenshire County Council' to the planning application and send to Planning Services, Civic Offices, Crescent Road, Llandeilo, SA19 6HW.
Online
Applications made Via the Planning Portal
The scale of fees apply from 6 April 2009. The following fees apply for planning applications:
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Householder Applications |
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Alterations/extensions to a single dwelling, including works within boundary such as domestic garages, garden sheds, gates, fences, boundary walls etc |
Single dwelling (excluding flats) |
£166 |
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All Outline Applications |
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£330 per 0.1 hectare for sites up to and including 2.5 hectares |
Not more than 2.5 hectares |
£330 per 0.1 hectare |
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£8,232 + £84 for each 0.1 in excess of 2.5 hectares to a maximum of £125,000 |
More than 2.5 hectares |
£8,232 + £84 per 0.1 hectare |
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FULL APPLICATIONS (and First Submissions of Reserved Matters) |
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Alterations/extensions to two or more dwellings, including works within boundaries |
Two or more dwellings (or one or more flats) |
£330 |
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New dwellings (up to and including 50) |
New dwellings (not more than 50) |
£330 per dwelling |
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New dwellings (for more than 50) £16,464 + £84 per additional dwelling in excess of 50 up to a maximum fee of £250,000 |
New dwellings (more than 50) |
£16,464 + £84 per additional dwelling |
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Erection of buildings (not dwellings, agricultural, glasshouses, plant nor machinery): |
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Increase of floor space
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No increase in gross floor space or no more than 40m² |
£166 |
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Increase of floor space
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More than 40m² but no more than 75m² |
£330 |
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Increase of floor space
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More than 75m² |
£330 for each 75m² or part thereof to a maximum of £250,000 |
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The erection of buildings (on land used for agriculture for agricultural purposes) |
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Site area |
Not more than 465m² |
£61 |
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Site area
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More than 465m² but not more than 540m² |
£330 |
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Site area
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More than 540m² |
£330 for first 540m² + £330 for each 75m² (or part thereof) in excess of 540m² up to a maximum of £250,000 |
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Erection of glasshouses (on land used for the purposes of agriculture) |
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Gross Floor space
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Not more than 465m² |
£61 |
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Gross Floor space
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More than 465m² |
£1,870 |
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Erection/alterations/replacement of plant and machinery |
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Site area
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Not more than 5 hectares |
£335 for each 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) |
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Site area
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More than 5 hectares |
£16,464 + additional £84 for each 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) in excess of 5 hectares to a maximum of £250,000 |
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Applications other than Building Works |
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Car parks, service roads or other accesses
On land used for or by a single undertaking, and where the development is required for a purpose incidental to the existing use of the land. |
For existing uses |
£166 |
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Waste (Use of land for disposal of refuse or waste materials or deposit of material remaining after extraction or storage of minerals) |
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Site area
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Not more than 15 hectares |
£166 for each 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) |
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Site area
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More than 15 hectares |
£24,852 + £84 for each 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) in excess of 15 hectares up to a maximum of £65,000 |
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Operations connected with exploratory drilling for oil or natural gas |
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Site area
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Not more than 7.5 hectares |
£330 for each 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) |
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Site area
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More than 7.5 hectares |
£24,852 + additional £84 for each 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) in excess of 7.5 hectares up to a maximum of £250,000 |
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Other operations (winning and working of minerals) |
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Site area
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Not more than 15 hectares |
£166 for each 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) |
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Site area
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More than 15 hectares |
£24,852 + additional £84 for each 0.1 in excess of 15 hectare up to a maximum of £65,000 |
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Other operations (not coming within any of the above categories) |
Any site area |
£166 for each 0.1 hectare (or part thereof) up to a maximum of £250,000 |
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Lawful Development Certificate |
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LDC – Existing Use - in breach of a planning condition |
Same as Full |
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LDC – Existing Use LDC - lawful not to comply with a particular condition |
£166 |
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LDC – Proposed Use |
Half the normal planning fee |
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Prior Approval |
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Agricultural and Forestry buildings & operations or demolition of buildings |
£61 |
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Telecommunications |
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Prior approval determination (56 days) |
£330 |
| Planning applications |
£330 |
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Removal or Variation of a condition |
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Application for removal or variation of a condition following grant of planning permission |
£166 |
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Renewal |
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Application to renew an unexpired permission |
£166 |
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Change of Use of a building to use as one or more separate dwelling houses, or other cases |
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Number of dwellings |
Not more than 50 dwellings |
£330 for each |
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Number of dwellings
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More than 50 dwellings |
£16,464 + £84 for each in excess of 50 up to a maximum of £250,000 |
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Other Changes of Use of a building or land |
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£330 |
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Advertising |
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· Relating to the business on the premises |
£90 |
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· Advance signs which are not situated on or visible from the site, directing the public to a business |
£90 |
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· Other advertisements |
£330 |
CONCESSIONS - EXEMPTIONS FROM PAYMENT
l For alterations, extensions, etc. to a dwelling house for the benefit of a registered disabled person.
l An application solely for the carrying out of the operations for the purpose of providing a means of access for disabled persons to or within a building or premises to which members of the public are admitted.
l Listed Building Consent
l Conservation Area Consent
l Works to Trees covered by a Tree Preservation Order or in a Conservation Area
l Hedgerow Removal
l If the proposal is the first revision of an application for development of the same character or description on the same site by the same applicant within 12 months of making the earlier application if withdrawn or the date of decision if granted or refused (including signs only if withdrawn or refused) and NOT a duplicate application made by the same applicant within 28 days.
l If the proposal relates to works that require planning permission only by virtue of an Article 4 Direction of the Town & Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 ie where the application is required only because of a direction or planning condition removing permitted development rights.
l If the application is for a lawful development certificate, for existing use, where an application for planning permission for the same development would be exempt from the need to pay a planning fee under any other planning fee regulation.
l If the application is for consent to display an advertisement following either a withdrawal of an earlier application (before notice of decision was issued) or where the application is made following refusal of consent for display of an advertisement, and where the application is made by or on behalf of the same person.
l If the application is for consent to display an advertisement which results from a direction under Regulation 7 of the Control of Advertisements Regulations 1992, dis-applying deemed consent under Regulation 6 to the advertisement in question.
l If the application is for alternate proposals for the same site by the same applicant, in order to benefit from the permitted development right in Schedule 2 Part 3 Class E of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995.
CONCESSIONS - REDUCTIONS TO PAYMENTS
l If the application is being made on behalf of a parish or community council then the fee is 50%
l If the application is an alternative proposal being submitted on the same site by the same applicant on the same day, where this application is of lesser cost then the fee is 50%
l In respect of reserved matters you must pay a sum equal to or greater than what would be payable at current rates for approval of all the reserved matters. If this amount has already been paid then the fee is £316.
l If the application is for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed use or development, then the fee is 50%
l If two or more applications are submitted for different proposals on the same day and relating to the same site then you must pay the fee for the highest fee plus half sum of the others.
l Where an application relates to development, which is within more than one fee category, the correct fee is simply the highest of the fees payable (if not including residential).
l Where an application consists of the erection of dwellings and the erection of other types of buildings (categories 1-4) the fees are added together and maximum can be exceeded.
l Where an application crosses one or more local or district planning authorities then the fee is 150% and goes to the authority that contains the larger part of the application site or a sum of the fees if it is less than 150%