Fees and Charges

We charge fees for some services. This means the people who actually use individual services help pay for what they receive. If we did not do this we would have to increase our Council Tax.

 Fees and Charges 2012-2013 (100kB PDF)  

Please Note: the fees and charges in the document above are correct as of April 2012. Some fees and charges may have changed since then. Please visit the relevant service area pages of our website or contact us to view current fees.

Here are each department's fees and examples of the charges that the department deals with:

Law and Governance:

• Election and electoral registration
• Copies of legal documents

Town Hall Management:

• Hourly room hire
• Hire of rooms for social events
• Civil wedding ceremonies
• Catering

Building Control:

• Charges relating to all building regulations submissions

Direct Services:

• Recycling
• MOT fees
• Abandoned vehicle collection
• City Centre car parking
• Parking fines
• Garage rents
• Parking spaces
• Mobility scheme
• Commercial lets rent

Leisure and Parks

• Sports pitches
• Outdoor Tennis
• Bowls
• Crazy golf
• Hire of parks for events
• Balloon launches

Planning:

• Planning permission fees           

Leisure

• Swimming 
• Ice Skating
• Gyms
• Slice cards

Environmental Development:

• Food safety courses
• Dog warden services
• Pest control services
• Street trading licenses
• Other premises licenses
• Air quality reports
• Pollution and contaminated land
• Copying docs 
• Taxi Licensing

Community Housing:

• Private lease scheme

Page last reviewed 30 March 2012