Its increasingly common, as resources are stretched, for Councils to charge for pre-application advice. Rare to date in North Wales although Denbighshire has made some limited charges for some time.
Anglesey County Council has now adopted such practice and with effect from 1st April 2013 is charging for pre-application advice as shown below:
As a practice, we welcome sound, robust pre-application advice services and it's encouraged by national guidance. Undertaken well it delivers some certainty and better development, often quicker. We genuinely hope the introduction of charges results in improvements to the quality, speed and usefulness of pre-application advice.
We advise all clients to not rely solely on such services and that we are well placed to lead and inform (cost effectively) prior to such pre-application advice from the Council being sought. Please contact us for more details.
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