Legal costs
8.1 The Council will require the developer to pay the Council’s legal fees of preparing the planning obligation or checking any draft agreement or unilateral undertaking. These costs vary according to the type of agreement or unilateral undertaking and the scale or complexity of the associated development. The Council’s Legal Department will be able to advise on the cost of dealing with the agreement once they have received instructions from the Planning Department.
8.2 The majority of the Council’s section 106 agreements are outsourced to the Council’s appointed external advisers save in a minority of cases where they are legally unable to act for the Council, in which case the matter will be dealt with by the Council’s internal legal team.