Planning permission guidance (business)

Planning advice service charges (all fees shown include VAT)

Fees can be paid by: 

  • Debit card - call us on 0191 424 7440
  • Cheque - make cheques payable to South Tyneside Council

The fee must be paid in advance of any work commencing on your enquiry.

If you require further advice from us following receipt of response letter, further charges will apply and these will be based £40 per hour or part thereof (inclusive of VAT).

Planning advice service charges
Type of developmentCharge from 1 November 2023
Commercial Development - Change of use, advice letter only about whether planning permission is needed£113
Unusual or complex householder proposals£125

Minor Development:

  • Residential development of 1 to 2 dwellings
  • Residential development on sites of less than 0.25 hectare in area
  • Non-residential development of less than 250 square metres  
  • Non-residential development of sites less than 0.25 hectare in area
  • Change of use, less than 250 square metres
  • Other minor development included listed buildings, if not a householder development
£273

Major Development [level 1]:

  • Residential development of 3 to 9 dwellings
  • Residential development on sites of more than 0.25 hectare in area but less than 0.5 hectare in area
  • Non-residential development of more than 250 square metres but less than 500 square metres
  • Non-residential development on sites of more than 0.25 hectare in area but less than 0.5 hectare in area
  • Change of use, more than 250 square metres but less than 500 square metres  
£889

Major Development [level 2]:

  • Residential development of 10 to 99 dwellings
  • Residential development on sites of more than 0.5 hectare in area but less than 2.5 hectares in area
  • Non-residential development of more than 500 square metres but less than 2,500 square metres  
  • Non-residential development on sites of more than 0.5 hectare in area but less than 2.5 hectare in area
  • Change of use, more than 500 square metres but less than 2,500 square metres 
£1369

Strategic Development:

  • Residential development of 100 or more dwellings
  • Residential development on sites of more than 2.5 hectares in area
  • Non-residential development of more than 2,500 square metres 
  • Non-residential development on sites of more than 2.5 hectares in area 
  • Change of use, more than 2,500 square metres
£2052
Business and commercial advice not falling within any of the above categoriesPrice on application

Status of advice

All pre-application advice is provided in good faith and is based on the information you provide.

Furthermore, all advice is given without prejudice to the formal consideration of any subsequent planning application, which would include a statutory publicity process being carried out and/or consultations with statutory agencies. For this reason this we cannot offer any guarantees about the outcome of a planning application when providing advice.

All requests for advice are potentially subject to disclosure in response to Freedom of Information or Environmental Information Regulations requests. Confidentiality cannot therefore be guaranteed when using the service.

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