Fees for Highways Development Management

Our fees for planning services (before you start construction):

Officer time is charged at £169 (billed retrospectively).

Caps on fees will be considered where appropriate and monitored to ensure control of spend.

The overall cost is dependent on the scale of development and level of input from officers. Time will only be charged for hours spent.

Fees are inclusive of VAT.

For mixed-use sites, we will add half of the lower category fee to the higher category fee to calculate the total cost.

Model runs are bespoke, and costs vary dependent on scenarios and data output.

The scope of strategic modelling is to be agreed with the Highway Authority before commencement.

View fees for accessing our strategic transport models.

There is a fee for developers to review models such as VISSIM and SATURN. A fee of 20% of consultancy costs applies and covers the administrative costs incurred by the council.

Our fees for other services:

These exclude street lighting and structure fees.

Section 38 and 278 licences will cost whichever is larger of either:

• £5,000
• 12% of the total cost of the value of the engineering (including statutory undertakers works, any traffic signal installations and street lighting)

You will need to pay £5,000 up front before any work has been started.

Fees over the minimum to be collected on completion of the agreement or as otherwise may be agreed.

Transportation fees on engineering works over £500,000 are to be calculated as below:

• reduce rate to 9% for element of works costs between £500,000 and £1,500,000
• reduce rate to 6% for element of works costs between £1,500,000 and £2,000,000
• reduce rate to 4% for element of works costs more than £2,000,000

A section 184 licence costs £2,468.55.

Up to 500 metres of adopted carriageway or footway:

Our fee for a standard agreement in principle submission technical approval (in accordance with CG300) is £5,012.72, which includes:

• 2 technical design reviews
• 1 review of your design certificate and construction completion certificate
• collation of asset management documentation
• updating asset management system

Fees for complex structures are decided on a case-by-case basis.

View additional fees below:

View our commuted sums below:

Our fee is £270.20.

Any highway trees that the developer wishes to remove must be agreed in advance with us. A fee of £5000 per tree must be paid for the replacement and maintenance of the tree.

View the fees below:

£10,000 deposit, with any unused monies refunded.

Examples of other consultations include controlled crossing points and traffic calming features.

The fee for Emergency Traffic Management Maintenance Contribution is £10,000.

Traffic System fees include costs associated with toucan crossings, signal controlled crossings, CCTV etc.

These fees cover both Technical Approval and Inspections.

Our Internal Traffic Systems team will provide a cost estimate. Turnaround time for this will be advised once the initial request is made.

These fees will need to be paid before the Technical Review.