Once the Planning and Infrastructure Bill receives Royal Assent, the Secretary of State must make regulations to allow local planning authorities to take into account the cost of local and regional plan-making when calculating local planning fees. Local planning authorities and Strategic Authorities should be allowed to spend these contributions from planning fees on staffing and resources to deliver their core functions and improve local plan coverage. (Recommendation, Paragraph 49)

Once the Planning and Infrastructure Bill receives Royal Assent, the Secretary of State must make regulations to allow local planning authorities to take into account the cost of local and regional plan-making when calculating local planning fees. Local planning authorities and Strategic Authorities should be allowed to spend these contributions from planning fees on staffing and resources to deliver their core functions and improve local plan coverage. (Recommendation, Paragraph 49) Type: conclusion | Number: 8 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: 51. In 2024, the Government consulted on setting indicative benchmark land values for land released from or developed in the Green Belt. The Government does not believe a national benchmark land value would sufficiently account for variation in land values or types of land and, if set too low, would