Charges are applicable for all pre-application planning advice and enquiries within Northumberland National Park. These charges are set out below.
The prices are listed below and are inclusive of VAT.
Please note increase in fees from 1st January 2023
(Extensions/alterations/outbuildings – existing residential properties)
Advice on Householder Development proposals, including:
Different levels of advice can be provided:
A written response will be provided confirming whether planning permission is required, based on the information provided by you. This does not include a site visit, or advice on whether a proposal would be likely to be supported.
Price: £50 from 1st January 2023
This includes an informal site visit from a planning officer where required, along with research and a written response detailing the planning history of a site, a list of known constraints, an assessment of the acceptability of your proposal against national and local planning policies and a list of documents that would be required for submission with a planning application.
Price: £100
Price: £50
Advice on Small scale development proposals, including:
A written response will be provided confirming whether planning permission is required, based on the information provided by you. This would not include a site visit, or advice on whether a proposal would be likely to be supported.
Price: £50 from 1st January 2023
This includes an informal site visit from a planning officer where required, along with research and a written response detailing the planning history of a site, a list of known constraints, an assessment of the acceptability of your proposal against national and local planning policies and a list of documents that would be required for submission with a planning application.
Price: £200
Where the planning officer determines an internal specialist response (for example the Historic Buildings Advisor, the Historic Environment Advisor, Ecologist, the Landscape and Forestry officer or Access and Recreation (rights of way) officer) is essential there will be an additional fee of £75 charged at the outset.
Where this relates to the same scheme on the same site within 12 months of the previous advice being given.
Price: £100
From 1st January 2023
Advice on Large scale proposals, including:
Is my project likely to be supported if I apply for planning consent?
This includes an informal site visit from a planning officer where required, along with research and a written response detailing the planning history of the site, a list of known constraints, an assessment of the acceptability of your proposal against national and local planning policies and a list of documents that would be required for submission with a planning application.
Price: £500
Additional charges
Where the planning officer determines an internal specialist response (for example the Historic Buildings Advisor, the Historic Environment Advisor, Ecologist, the Landscape and Forestry Officer or Access and Recreation (rights of way) Officer is essential there will be an additional fee of £125 charged at the outset.
Any additional follow-up meetings and/or written advice required
Where this relates to the same scheme on the same site within 12 months of the previous advice being given.
Price: £250
Advice on Major development proposals, including:
Is my project likely to be supported if I apply for planning consent?
This includes an informal site visit from a planning officer where required, along with research and a written response detailing the planning history of the site, a list of known constraints, an assessment of the acceptability of your proposal against national and local planning policies and a list of documents that would be required for submission with a planning application.
Price: £1000
Additional charges
Where the planning officer determines an internal specialist response (for example the Historic Buildings Advisor, the Historic Environment Advisor, Ecologist, the Landscape and Forestry Officer or Access and Recreation (rights of way) Officer is essential there will be an additional fee of £250 charged at the outset.
Any additional follow-up meetings and/or written advice required
Where this relates to the same scheme on the same site within 12 months of the previous advice being given.
Price: £500
Advice will be provided by NNPA Planning Officers (and, where required, NNPA Specialist Officers) however will not include advice from external organisations, who may be relevant statutory consultees on planning applications.
Many of these organisations will offer preapplication advice to individuals and developers on a direct basis and NNPA will endeavour to identify and suggest that you make contact with other statutory consultees where they may be relevant. NNPA will highlight which statutory consultees we consider are relevant to your proposal.
The following pre-application enquiries will not incur a charge:
Payment must be received at the time of the enquiry and can be made by cash, cheque or BACS transfer.
Cheques should be made payable to Northumberland National Park Authority.
To make a payment via BACS transfers please contact planning@nnpa.org.uk for our account details.
It is ESSENTIAL that you provide a BACS reference so that the fee can be identified as relating to your enquiry. References should state ‘PLNG’ followed by the relevant site address.
For example, for an enquiry at Eastburn, the reference would be ‘PLNGEastburn’.
Please email planning@nnpa.org.uk as soon as you have made your payment to ensure that this is identified.
When we receive your enquiry (and fee, if appropriate) we will send you an email or
acknowledgement letter telling you the name and contact details of the Officer dealing with your enquiry.
We will endeavour to deal with the enquiry in writing (by post, or preferably by e-mail) within 28 days. This will allow us time for research and a possible site visit to be undertaken.
If this timescale is likely to be exceeded due to the nature of the enquiry or the need to consult with specialists, we will let you know as soon as possible and give you a revised response time.
