Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the average cost to a local planning authority of determining an application for prior consent for a two-storey upward extension to a dwelling house.

The fee for this type of prior approval will be set at a level that is proportionate to the cost to a local authority in determining the prior approval and consistent with fees for other similar prior approvals. This should be less than where the development would have come forward as a planning application.