Prior Approval Expired?

We can prepare and submit your Prior Approval application again for a fixed £600

If your previous Prior Approval has expired and you want to proceed with the same development, we can review the original application and prepare a fresh submission.

Fixed professional fee: £600

Planning application fees and any specialist reports that may be required are additional.

Check your previous application

Enter your previous planning application reference and we will check the application to establish whether it is suitable for our straightforward resubmission service.

[Check my application]

Already had Prior Approval?

You may not need to start from scratch.

If the proposed development remains substantially the same, we can use the previous application as the starting point for a new submission.

Our service is designed for straightforward cases where:

  • Prior Approval was previously granted

  • The previous permission has now expired

  • You want to proceed with substantially the same development

  • The site and proposed development have not materially changed

  • The existing application information can be reused or updated

We will review the previous application before confirming that it is suitable for the service.

What is included for £600?

We handle the application from review through to submission.

This includes:

  • Review of your previous Prior Approval application

  • Review of the previous decision and approved proposal

  • Review of the planning history

  • Checking the information required for the new submission

  • Updating the application documents where required

  • Preparing the new Prior Approval application

  • Completing the Planning Portal application

  • Uploading the supporting documents

  • Submitting the application to the Local Planning Authority

You do not need to work out what forms to complete or how to submit the application.

You simply give us your previous application reference.

What about the site notice?

Some Prior Approval applications require a site notice to be displayed.

If your application requires one, you can put it up yourself at no extra cost.

We will provide the notice and tell you where and when it needs to be displayed.

Don't want to put it up yourself?

We can arrange for a local person to attend the property and display the notice for you.

Notice installation service: £100

This is completely optional.

Do it yourself: £0
We arrange it: £100

What isn't included?

The £600 is our fixed professional fee.

The following are additional where applicable:

  • Local Planning Authority application fee

  • Specialist surveys or reports

  • Updated specialist consultant information

  • Additional architectural work where the proposal has materially changed

  • Work required because the application falls outside our straightforward resubmission service

We will tell you about any additional requirements before proceeding.

How it works

1. Enter your previous application reference

We use the reference to find the previous application and review the available information.

2. We check whether it qualifies

We look at the previous approval, proposal, planning history and available supporting information.

3. Pay the fixed fee

If the application is suitable for our straightforward resubmission service, the professional fee is £600.

4. We prepare the application

We reuse the previous information wherever possible and update what is required.

5. You deal with the site notice, or we arrange it

You can display the notice yourself, or pay £100 for us to arrange local installation where a notice is required.

6. We submit the application

We complete the Planning Portal submission and send the application to the Local Planning Authority.

Had Prior Approval before?

Give us your previous application reference and we will check whether we can resubmit it for you.

£600 fixed professional fee

[Check my previous application]

Planning application fees and any required specialist reports are additional. We cannot guarantee that a new application will be approved. The service is intended for straightforward, substantially like-for-like resubmissions.