Most planning applications require a fee in order to be processed. You can check the cost of your application on the Planning Portal's fee calculator. The calculator tool will ask you a few questions to help you find out the correct fee.
You can also check the Planning Portal's fee guidance for further information.
How to pay
You can pay online or by telephone. No other methods of payment are acceptable. If a cheque is received, this will be securely disposed of (not returned to the sender).
Online
You can pay the statutory application fee securely online through the Planning Portal when you submit your application. This is the fastest way to submit and pay for your application.
Please note you cannot make the additional fast track payment through the Planning Portal (as this a Redbridge service). Please see details in the next section on how to pay for fast track.
Phone
All payments directly to the Planning Service must be made using our automated telephone payments line. Please call 0208 708 4708 and press 9 for Planning Services.
When making payment, you will need to input your Redbridge reference number without any letters or special characters (you cannot use your Planning Portal PP number). For example, paying for planning application 0100/21 - you would need to type 010021 into our automated payment line. If you use the incorrect reference number when paying then this will delay your application.