Pass-through at cost
What your council charges.
These are statutory fees, set by regulation, paid to the local planning authority. Wren collects them and passes them on unchanged. They are itemised separately on your quote, your invoice and your receipt, so you can check every one of them against this page.
England · from 1 April 2026
England
Uprated 3.8% on 1 April 2026 by the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026, tracking September 2025 CPI.
| Application | Fee |
|---|---|
| Householder | £548 |
| Dwellings, under 10 unitsper dwelling | £610 |
| Dwellings, 10 to 50 unitsper dwelling | £659 |
| Dwellings, over 50 unitsplus £196 per unit over 50, capped at £427,537 | £32,578 |
| Change of use | £610 |
| Lawful Development Certificate, proposed | £274 |
| Lawful Development Certificate, existing | Same as the full application fee |
| Listed building consent | £0 |
| Prior approvalClass MA office to residential is £260 per dwelling | £249 |
| Advertisement, own premises or directional | £174 |
| Advertisement, other | £610 |
| Section 78 appeal | £0 |
| Planning Portal service chargeper submission | £91 |
The £427,537 ceiling on the largest residential schemes is a shared cap: the top band of commercial floorspace, plant and machinery, and agricultural buildings all sit under the same figure.
The portal
The £91 Planning Portal charge
A separate charge, levied by the Planning Portal rather than by your council, on each submission.
It is stated here as the gross amount you pay, and it is never broken into a net figure plus tax on any surface Wren produces. The reason is specific: Wren is not VAT registered, and printing a VAT breakdown next to a Wren price would read as Wren charging VAT.
There is no portal charge on an appeal, because an appeal is lodged with the Planning Inspectorate rather than through the portal.
Devolved
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Each sets its own fees, and Wren does not quote an England figure wearing a devolved badge.
The fee calculator returns a clear instruction to check with your authority rather than an England number that would be confidently wrong. Every result the calculator does give carries a confidence of either exact or estimate, and a citation to the instrument that sets it, shown under the fee itself so you can audit it rather than trust it.
The national framework differs too, and the drafting engine knows it: the National Planning Policy Framework in England, National Planning Framework 4 in Scotland, Planning Policy Wales edition 12 in Wales, and the Strategic Planning Policy Statement in Northern Ireland.
Also payable
The levy, where your council charges it
The Community Infrastructure Levy is not an application fee and is not collected by Wren. It is charged by your council after permission, on new floorspace.
Around 175 English councils have adopted a charging schedule. Where yours has, the rate is on its council page and on your appraisal, indexed to the current year rather than quoted at the rate the schedule was adopted at. That distinction matters more than it sounds: on a schedule adopted in 2016, the 2026 indexation factor is 1.476, so the unindexed number understates the levy by nearly half.
Where a council charges different rates by zone and Wren does not hold the zone geometry, the appraisal says the charging area is unknown rather than guessing one. In Westminster, the small-scale affordable housing rate differs by a factor of 2.6 between areas, so an assumed zone is a six-figure error rather than a rounding one.
Next
See your own council's figures.
Every authority in the United Kingdom has a page: approval rate, decision times, local plan, levy rate and the policies your application will be judged against. Free, and indexed.