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Costs

You don’t have to pay to make an appeal, but you will have some expenses. The time and money it takes to make an appeal depends on how complicated the appeal is.

The overall cost of your appeal will depend on whether you employ professional advisers or representatives.

You and the Local Planning Authority normally have to pay your own expenses for your appeal. If the appeal is decided by a hearing or inquiry, and either side is shown to have behaved unreasonably, then one side may have to pay all or part of the costs for the other side, as well as their own. This does not happen in cases decided by Written Representations.

More information can be found in the Planning Inspectorate's costs guidance booklet.

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