Monitoring Planning Obligations

Planning permissions might be subject to legal agreements requiring the delivery of planning obligations. These might relate to payments for the provision of infrastructure or its delivery in kind.

Once any planning obligations associated with planning permissions have been agreed, it is important that their delivery is monitored in an efficient and transparent way, in order to ensure the impacts of a development are addressed and that the associated development contributes to the sustainability of the area. This will require monitoring by the Local Planning Authorities, which in turn may involve joint working by different parts of the Authority.

There are two aspects to monitoring and managing legal agreements, these being:

• Financial monitoring and management of the monies associated with receiving the income; and
• Physical monitoring where obligations are delivered in kind

In order to cover the counci’s costs for this work the charge for the monitoring of planning obligation is as follows:

• For minor development (PS Code 13 to 24) £350 per agreement relating to financial monitoring and £400 per agreement relating to physical monitoring. (if the agreement includes both the monitoring fee would be £750)
• For major development (PS Code 1 to 12) £500 per obligation.

For further information please contact us. .

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Updated 11/06/2025