Planning (Fees) Rules 2014 - Singapore Statutes Online

No. S 537

Planning Act

(CHAPTER 232)

Planning
(Fees) Rules 2014

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 61(1) and (2) of the Planning Act, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Planning (Fees) Rules 2014 and shall come into operation on 12 August 2014.

Definitions

2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“ancillary facility” includes —

(a)	a separate building, structure or facility within a development (such as a bin centre, an electric sub‑station or a guard house) that is intended to house or provide services or amenities to the development or part thereof or to users of the development; and
(b)	an open space within the development,

but excludes a separate car park building within a development;

“application with multiple proposals” means any application referred to in items 1 to 15(a) and 20 of the First Schedule where at least 2 but not more than 3 proposals may be submitted by the applicant in the same application and where the written permission of the competent authority for such application, if granted, will be for only one of the proposals;

“authorised”, in relation to the development of any land, means any development of that land —

(a)	authorised under the Act or the repealed Act; or
(b)	effected or carried out pursuant to any written approval granted under any written law before 1 February 1960;

“Broad Land‑Use Group” means a Broad Land‑Use Group set out in the Third Schedule, and a reference to a numbered Broad Land‑Use Group is a reference to a Broad Land‑Use Group so numbered in that Schedule;

“calculation plans” means the plans that are required to be submitted to the competent authority in relation to any application or matter set out in the first column of the First Schedule and which show the computation of floor area for a development or part thereof;

“Category 1 Works” means any works of a type specified in Part 1 of the Fourth Schedule;

“Category 2 Works” means any works of a type specified in Part 2 of the Fourth Schedule;

“conserved building” means any building located within a conservation area and required by the competent authority to be conserved;

“extensive open area development” means any development comprised wholly or mainly of open areas with no or little built‑up areas and includes a development set out in Part 1 of the Second Schedule;

“floor area” has the same meaning as in the Planning (Development Charges) Rules (R 5);

“good class bungalow area” means an area specified by the competent authority, with the approval of the Minister, as a good class bungalow area for the development of detached houses only;

“highest fee amount proposal”, in relation to an application with multiple proposals, means the proposal for which the applicable fee in the second column of the First Schedule is the higher or highest fee applicable to the proposals;

“historic conservation area” means a conservation area set out in the Fifth Schedule;

“land extensive development” includes a development set out in Part 2 of the Second Schedule;

“land intensive development” means a development which is not an extensive open area development, a land extensive development or a development for landed dwelling‑houses, and which is comprised wholly or mainly of built‑up areas;

“landed dwelling‑house” means any of the following types of houses used wholly or mainly for the purpose of human habitation but does not include a landed dwelling‑house comprised in a development that is strata subdivided or intended for or capable of strata subdivision:

(a)	detached house;
(b)	semi‑detached house;
(c)	terrace house;

“monument” means any monument in respect of which there is in force a preservation order under the Preservation of Monuments Act (Cap. 239);

“plot” means the whole of the one or more lots of land on which a single landed dwelling‑house is to be constructed;

“proposal amount”, in relation to any land, means the amount that is a product of multiplying the following:

(a)	the floor area of the land for which the competent authority grants provisional permission to develop for any purpose (including any modifications thereto); and
(b)	the rate specified in Part II of the First Schedule to the Planning (Development Charges) Rules that corresponds to the appropriate geographical sector in which the land falls and the Use Group in Part I of that Schedule within which the purpose falls;

“Repair and Maintenance Works” means any works of a type specified in Part 3 of the Fourth Schedule;

“storey” includes any attic, basement, mezzanine or roof storey;

“storey plans” means the plans that are required to be submitted to the competent authority in relation to any application or matter set out in the first column of the First Schedule and which show the layout and use proposed for a storey of a building;

“strata landed dwelling‑house” means a landed dwelling‑house comprised in a development the strata subdivision of which is permitted under a written permission granted by the competent authority under section 14(4) of the Act or authorised by the Minister under section 21(6) of the Act.

(2) For the purpose of these Rules —

(a)	a use of land is permissible under a Broad Land‑Use Group if, in accordance with the Master Plan, it is a permissible use for any zoning under that Broad Land‑Use Group; and
(b)	a use of land is permissible under a zoning in a Broad Land‑Use Group if, in accordance with the Master Plan, it is a permissible use for that zoning under that Broad Land‑Use Group.

(3) In the definition of “highest fee amount proposal”, a reference to a fee applicable to a proposal is a reference to the fee applicable to a proposal under the second column of the First Schedule.

(4) For the purpose of determining the fees under items 4(c), 5(1)(d), 6(d), 23, 24 and 43 in the First Schedule —

(a)

2 or more storeys of a building shall be counted as a single storey, if —

(i)	the storey plans in the case of items 4(c), 5(1)(d) and 6(d) of the First Schedule; or
(ii)	the calculation plans in the case of items 23, 24 and 43 of the First Schedule,

for such storeys are identical to one another; and

(b)

all ancillary facilities within a development shall be deemed to be a separate building having a number of storeys equivalent to that of any ancillary facility with the higher or highest number of storeys in that development, and where no such ancillary facility within the development is a building or structure, the ancillary facilities shall be deemed to be a separate building with a single storey.

Fees

3.—(1) There shall be paid to the competent authority —

(a)

in respect of the matters set out in the first column of the First Schedule, the appropriate fee specified opposite in the second column of that Schedule; and

(b)

in respect of an application with multiple proposals —

(i)

for the highest fee amount proposal, the appropriate fee specified in the second column of the First Schedule; and

(ii)

for each proposal other than the highest fee amount proposal —

(A)	in the case of item 15(a) of the First Schedule, half of the appropriate fee specified in the second column of that Schedule; and
(B)	in the case of items 1 to 14 and 20 of the First Schedule, three‑quarters of the appropriate fees specified in the second column of that Schedule.

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Rules, no fee shall be payable in respect of an application for conservation permission under section 13 of the Act to carry out only Repair and Maintenance Works to a conserved building.

(3) The fees specified in the First Schedule are inclusive of the goods and services tax chargeable under the Goods and Services Tax Act (Cap. 117A).

Fees for application for outline permission

4.—(1) The fee for an application for outline permission under section 18(1) of the Act shall be —

(a)

$25,466, inclusive of the goods and services tax chargeable under the Goods and Services Tax Act (Cap. 117A), if the application —

(i)	is in relation to a proposed development of land which on the date of the application is not in accordance with the provisions of the Master Plan with regard to land use, intensity, use quantum or the planning guidelines issued by the competent authority relating to the control of building height for the land; and
(ii)	is to be determined by the competent authority in consultation with a committee appointed by the Minister for the purpose of advising on the application; or

(b)

half of the fee specified in the second column of the First Schedule, in any other case.

(2) Where, after the grant of the outline permission and during the validity period of the outline permission, an application for planning permission or conservation permission is made under section 18(5) of the Act, the fee for such application shall be the appropriate fee specified in the second column of the First Schedule.

(3) The fee for an application for outline permission with multiple proposals shall be —

(a)

for the highest fee amount proposal, half of the appropriate fee specified in the second column of the First Schedule; and

(b)

for each proposal other than the highest fee amount proposal —

(i)	in the case of item 15(a) of the First Schedule, one‑quarter of the appropriate fee specified in the second column of that Schedule; and
(ii)	in the case of items 1 to 14 and 20 of the First Schedule, three‑eighths of the appropriate fees specified in the second column of that Schedule.

(4) The fee for an application with multiple proposals for planning permission or conservation permission made under section 18(5) of the Act after the grant of outline permission shall be —

(a)

for the highest fee amount proposal, the appropriate fee specified in the second column of the First Schedule; and

(b)

for each proposal other than the highest fee amount proposal —

(i)	in the case of item 15(a) of the First Schedule, half of the appropriate fee specified in the second column of that Schedule; and
(ii)	in the case of items 1 to 14 and 20 of the First Schedule, three‑quarters of the appropriate fees specified in the second column of that Schedule.

(5) Paragraph (3) shall not apply to an application for outline permission referred to in paragraph (1)(a).

(6) Paragraph (4) shall not apply to an application for planning permission or conservation permission referred to in paragraph (2) where the outline permission is granted pursuant to an application specified in paragraph (1)(a).

Dominant use to determine Broad Land‑Use Group

5.—(1) Where, in an application for a development mentioned in item 3(1) of the First Schedule, the proposed or approved use of the land to be developed is, or (where applicable) the proposed and approved uses of the land to be developed are, permissible under —

(a)	the zoning “White” within the Broad Land‑Use Group 1;
(b)	the zoning “Commercial & Residential” within the Broad Land‑Use Group 1; or
(c)	the zoning “Residential/Institution” within the Broad Land‑Use Group 2,

the total floor area for such use or any of such uses (whether proposed or approved) that is not less than 80% of the total floor area for the development on the land shall be the only use to be considered in determining the Broad Land‑Use Group under which the proposed or approved use is, or (as the case may be) the proposed and approved uses are, permissible.

(2) The fee for the application under item 3(1) of the First Schedule shall be calculated according to the Broad Land‑Use Group determined under paragraph (1).

Revocation

6. The Planning (Fees) Rules (R 7) are revoked.

Made on 12 August 2014.

BENNY LIM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

[ND 101/7-23 V9.; AG/LLRD/SL/232/2010/13 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 61(4) of the Planning Act).

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