SCHEDULE CALCULATION OF FEES

PART 2Modified fees

Appeals by community councils

10.  Where the appeal is made by a community council established under section 51 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(1), the amount of the fee payable in respect of the appeal is reduced by one half.

Appeals in respect of applications in conservation areas

11.—(1) Where all the conditions in sub-paragraph (2) are satisfied, the amount of fee payable in respect of an appeal is reduced by one quarter.

(2) The conditions are—

(a)the application in respect of which the appeal is made relates solely to—

(i)the carrying out of operations for the alteration of a dwellinghouse (but not including the extension of or the erection of a dwellinghouse), or

(ii)other operations within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse (but not including the extension of or the erection of a dwellinghouse),

(b)the dwellinghouse is in a conservation area,

(c)the application in respect of which the appeal is made relates solely to development within one or more of the classes specified in schedule 1 of the General Permitted Development Order, and

(d)the only reason planning permission is not granted by article 3(1) of the General Permitted Development Order is that the development would be in a conservation area.

Appeals in respect of applications for the provision of facilities for sport or recreation

12.—(1) Where an appeal is made by or for a club, society, trust or other organisation which is not established or conducted for profit and whose objects or purposes, as the case may be, are the provision of facilities for sport or recreation, and the conditions specified in sub-paragraph (2) are satisfied, the fee payable is £286.

(2) The conditions are—

(a)that the application in respect of which the appeal is made relates to—

(i)the making of a material change in the use of land to use the land as a playing field, or

(ii)the carrying out of operations other than the erection of a building containing floor space, for purposes ancillary to the use of the land as a playing field,

and to no other development, and

(b)that the Scottish Ministers are satisfied that the development is to be carried out on land which is, or is intended to be used wholly or mainly for the carrying out of the objects or purposes, as the case may be, of the club, society, trust or organisation.

Appeals in respect of applications for approval, consent or agreement required by a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission in principle

13.  Where—

(a)an appeal is made in respect of an application for approval, consent or agreement in respect of one or more matters requiring such approval, consent or agreement in terms of a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission in principle (“the current application”), and

(b)the fee payable to the planning authority in respect of the current application was the fee payable in terms of paragraph 10(3) of schedule 1 of the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) (Scotland) Regulations 2022(2),

the fee payable for the appeal in respect of the current application is £238.