Note fees will be increasing from 01st April 2026 – I will be adjusting the calculator appropriately.
Planning application fees continue to be challenging for even professional agents to calculate so I am always looking for a way to facilitate calculation. I know the Scottish Government has a good application but nonetheless I tried to write my own. Feel free to use it but for important projects please double check the calculations.
AI is kind of outstanding at code. I took my flow diagram previously published here and used it as instruction for an AI coding platform here’s the resulting application.
Features
- Adjusts parameters as you adjust the Category of Development
- Category of development as per Part 3 Table 1 & Table 2 of the Town and Country (Fees for Applications)(Scotland) Regulations 2022
- December 2025 I added Planning Permission in principle items and I improved the wording around calculation of fees for short term lets
- Should keep you right on what parameters are required to determine the fee associated with the most important Categories of development
- Copy button to allow easy transfer of calculations
Not quite one shotted it more like 3 but seems competent to me although be warned I haven’t done extensive testing.
For comparison here’s the eplanning.scot caclulator