Pollution Control

Costs and Recurring Costs

Last updated: 3 May 2011

Fees and Charges for Farming Activities

From 1 April 2011 the following charges shall apply to a farming activity which falls into these three bands:

Band	Poultry	Pigs *
Band 1	40,000 - 80,000	2000 - 4500 production pigs
Band 2	80,000 - 150,000	750 - 1000 sows or 4500 - 6500 production pigs
Band 3	More than 150,000	More than 1000 sows or 6500 production pigs

A copy of the fees and charges scheme can be viewed at our fees and charges page.

Please note:

Where an installation has sows and production pigs greater than 30kg present and either the number of sows or production pigs, or both, exceeds the threshold, the charge shall be calculated based on the number of 'production pig places'.
A sow is equal to five places and a production pig equal to one place, therefore, a farm with 800 sows and 3000 finishers over 30kg would have the equivalent of 7000 production pig places and would fall into charging band 3.

Non Recurring Costs

Permit Application Charge

(1) The permit application charge for a farming activity is:

	Standard	Standard & Land Spreading	Non Standard
Band 1	£ 2,122	£372	£4,959
Band 2	£ 2,539	£ 493	£6,074
Band 3	£ 3,025	£622	£7,313

Recurring Costs

Subsistence Charge

(2) Subject to the provisions of article 9 of this Scheme, the annual subsistence
charge for a farming activity is:

	Standard	Standard & Land Spreading	Non Standard
Band 1	£1,100	£234	£2,325
Band 2	£ 1,514	£ 346	£2,907
Band 3	£ 1,823	£465	£3,458

Variation Application Charge

(3) Initial Variation Applications (plus fee) must be made as a standard variation.

If the application is deemed as a substantial variation (as defined in article 24(3) of this Scheme) the additional substantial variation fee must be paid:

	Standard Variation	Substantial Variation
Standard Farm Permit	301	1399
Non Standard Farm permit	1273	2683