Environment Fees and Charges
2024/2025
Private Water Supplies
| Activity | 2024/25 charge | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Risk Assessment (including write-up) up to 2 hours | £298.00 | A risk assessment is required for all private water supplies except for single domestic dwellings |
| Risk Assessment per hour after 2 hours | £41.00 | |
| Risk Assessment report per hour after 2 hours | £41.00 | |
| Sampling visit | £110.00 | Sampling visit only, does not include analysis costs |
| Investigation | £86.00 | An investigation must be carried out to determine the cause of a failure including service of notice |
| Authorisation | £112.00 | Issued for a temporary basis whilst remedial work is carried out to improve the supply |
| Missed or Cancelled visits | £64.00 | |
| Laboratory/analysis costs: | ||
| Regulation 9 supply (standard suite*) | £108.10 | Laboratory costs for analysis as at 1st October 2023 |
| Regulation 9 supply (standard suite*) | £111.21 | PRICE INCREASE from 1st October 2024 Laboratory costs for analysis |
| Regulation 10 supply (standard suite*) | £27.65 | Laboratory costs for analysis as at 1st October 2023 |
| Regulation 10 supply (standard suite*) | £28.45 | PRICE INCREASE from 1st October 2024 Laboratory costs for analysis |
*Certain parameters may be removed from the monitoring suite if specific criteria is met over a period of three years under Regulation 5 of the amendment regulations.
Additional parameters may also be added if the risk assessment and/or local geology identifies a specific risk
High Hedge investigation
If complaint is accepted, the following fees are applicable;
| Description | Fee |
|---|---|
| Part 1 - Initial fee to review the complaint and determine next steps | £40.00 |
| Part 2 - Inspection, survey, calculations and report | £336.00 |
| Part 3 - Prepare legal notices if required | £98.00 |
Green Burial
| Description | Fee |
|---|---|
| Green burial permission | £364.00 |
Regulated Installations - Permits for Part A(2) and Part B
| Part A(2) Fees Type of Charge |
Local Authority Element |
|---|---|
| Application | £3,363.00 |
| Additional fee for operating without a permit | £1,188.00 |
| Annual Subsistence Low | £1,446.00 |
| Annual Subsistence Medium | £1,610.00 |
| Annual Subsistence High | £2,333.00 |
| Late Payment Fee | £52.00 |
| Substantial Variation | £202.00 |
| Transfer | £235.00 |
| Partial Transfer | £698.00 |
| Surrender | £698.00 |
| Part B Application Fees Type of Charge |
Fee |
|---|---|
| Standard process (includes solvent emission activities) | £1,650.00 |
| Additional fee for operating without a permit | £1,188.00 |
| PVR I and dry cleaners | £155.00 |
| PVR I and II combined | £257.00 |
| Vehicle refinishers (VRs) and other reduced fee activities | £362.00 |
| Reduced fee activities: Additional fee for operating without a permit | £99.00 |
| Mobile plant, for the first and second permits | £1,650.00 |
| for the third to seventh applications | £985.00 |
| for the eighth and subsequent applications | £498.00 |
| Where an application for any of the above is for a combined | £808.00 |
| Part B and waste application, add an extra £310.00 to the above amounts |
| Part B Annual Subsistence charge | Fee | Low | Medium | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard process | £772.00 | £1,161.00 | £1,747.00 | |
| PVR I and dry cleaners | £79.00 | £158.00 | £237.00 | |
| PVR I and II combined | £113.00 | £226.00 | £341.00 | |
| Vehicle refinishers and other reduced fees | £228.00 | £365.00 | £548.00 | |
| Mobile plant, for the first and second permits | £646.00 | £1,034.00 | £1,551.00 | |
| for the third to seventh applications | £385.00 | £617.00 | £924.00 | |
| for the eighth and subsequent applications | £198.00 | £314.00 | £473.00 | |
| Late payment fee | £52.00 |
| Part B Substantial Change | Fee |
|---|---|
| Standard Process | £1,050.00 |
| Standard Process where the substantial change results in a new PPC activity | £1,650.00 |
| Reduced fee activities | £102.00 |
| Part B Transfer and Surrender | Fee |
|---|---|
| Standard process transfer | £169.00 |
| Standard process partial transfer | £497.00 |
| New operator at low risk reduced fee activity (extra one-off subsistence charge - see Art 15(2) of charging scheme) |
£78.00 |
| Surrender: all Part B activities | No fee |
| Reduced fee activities: transfer | No fee |
| Reduced fee activities: Partial transfer | £47.00 |
| Temporary Transfer for Mobiles | Fee |
|---|---|
| First Transfer | £53.00 |
| Repeat following enforcement or warning | £53.00 |
| Part B LAPPC mobile plant charges (Not using simplified permits) |
Application Fee |
Subsistence Low |
Subsistence Medium |
Subsistence High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £1,650.00 | £646.00 | £1,034.00 | £1,506.00 |
| 2 | £1,650.00 | £646.00 | £1,034.00 | £1506.00 |
| 3 | £985.00 | £385.00 | £617.00 | £924.00 |
| 4 | £985.00 | £385.00 | £617.00 | £924.00 |
| 5 | £985.00 | £385.00 | £617.00 | £924.00 |
| 6 | £985.00 | £385.00 | £617.00 | £924.00 |
| 7 | £985.00 | £385.00 | £617.00 | £924.00 |
| 8 and over | £498.00 | £198.00 | £316.00 | £473.00 |