Guidance document

Travel plan and monitoring fee thresholds

Depending on the size and location of a development, different types of travel plans will be required. 

New Planning Codes and Monitoring Fees Update April 2025
Land use pre-2020 Land use post-2020 Size of development Type of travel plan Monitoring fee (Index linked April 2024) (£)

A1 Food retail - sale of food goods to the public:

  • food superstores,
  • supermarkets
  • convenience food stores.
E(a) Display or retail sale of goods, other than hot food Over 3500m² Travel Plan £3,347
1000-3499m² Travel Plan £2,035
250–999m² Travel Plan Statement None

A1 Non-food retail - sale of non-food goods to the public:

  • includes sandwich bars – sandwiches or other cold food purchased and consumed off the premises
  • internet cafés
E(a) Display or retail sale of goods, other than hot food Over 3500m² Travel Plan £3,347
1500-3499m² Travel Plan £2,035
800–1499m² Travel Plan Statement None

A2 Financial & professional services  

Financial services, including banks, building societies & bureaux de change Professional services (other than health or medical services) including estate agents & employment agencies Other services- betting shops, principally where services are provided to visiting members of the public.

E(c)(i) Financial services, 

E(c)(ii) Professional services (other than health or medical services)

Over 3500m² Travel Plan £3,347
2500-3499m² Travel Plan £2,035
1000–2499m² Travel Plan Statement None
A3 Restaurants & Cafes - selling food to be eaten on the premises. Excludes internet cafés (now A1). E(b) Sale of food and drink for consumption (mostly) on the premises Over 3500m² Travel Plan £3,347
2500-3499m² Travel Plan £2,035
300–2499m² Travel Plan Statement None
A4 Drinking Establishments public houses, wine-bars or other drinking establishments. Sui Generis Over 1000m² Travel Plan £3,347
300–999m² Travel Plan Statement None
A5 Hot Food takeaway eaten on or off the premises Sui Generis Over 1000m² Travel Plan £2,035
250 to 999m² Travel Plan Statement None

B1 Business - 

  • (a)Offices (not included in Class A2)
  • (b) Research and development, laboratories and studios.
  • (c) Light industry

E(g) Uses which can be carried out in a residential area without detriment to its amenity: 

E(g)(i) Offices to carry out any operational or administrative functions, E(g)(ii) Research and development of products or processes 

E(g)(iii) Industrial processes

Over 5000m² Travel Plan £3,347
2500-4999m² Travel Plan £2,035
1500-2499m² Travel Plan Statement None
B2 General Industrial (not included in B1) The former ‘special industrial‘ use classes (B3 to B7), are now all included in B2. B2 General industrial - Use for industrial process other than one falling within class E(g) (previously class B1) (excluding incineration purposes, chemical treatment or landfill or hazardous waste) Over 5000m² Travel Plan £3,347
4000-4999m² Travel Plan £2,035
2500–3999m² Travel Plan Statement None

B8 Storage or distribution 

  • wholesale
  • warehouses;
  • distribution centres
  • repositories.
B8 Storage or distribution - This class includes open air storage. Over 7500m² Travel Plan £3,347
3000-7499m² Travel Plan £2,035
2000-2999m² Travel Plan Statement None
C1 Hotels Includes: Hotels boarding houses & guest houses where ‘no significant element of care is provided‘. C1 Hotels - Hotels, boarding and guest houses where no significant element of care is provided (excludes hostels) Over 150 bedrooms Travel Plan £3,347
100 to 149 bedrooms Travel Plan £2,035
75 to 99 bedrooms Travel Plan Statement None
C2 Residential institutions hospitals or nursing homes providing care to people. C2 Residential institutions – Residential care homes, hospitals and nursing homes Over 75 beds Travel Plan £3,347
50 to 74 beds Travel Plan £2,035
30 to 49 beds Travel Plan Statement None

C2 Residential institutions 

  • residential education,
  • boarding schools,
  • training centres
C2 Residential institutions - Boarding schools, residential colleges and training centres Over 225 students Travel Plan £3,347
150 to 224 students Travel Plan £2,035
50 to 149 students Travel Plan Statement None

C2 Residential institutions 

  • institutional hostels
  • homeless shelters
  • accommodation for people with learning difficulties
  • accommodation for people on probation.
C2A Secure Residential Institution - Use for a provision of secure residential accommodation, including use as a prison, young offenders institution, detention centre, secure training centre, custody centre, short term holding centre, secure hospital, secure local authority accommodation or use as a military barracks Over 600 residents Travel Plan £3,347
400 to 599 residents Travel Plan £2,035
250 to 399 residents Travel Plan Statement None

C3 Dwelling Houses - includes dwellings for individuals, families, or not more than six people living together as a single household. Not more than six people living together includes: 

  • students or young people sharing a dwelling;
  • small group homes for disabled people living together in the community. 

C4 Houses in multiple occupation - Small shared houses occupied by between three and six unrelated individuals, as their only or main residence, who share basic amenities such as a kitchen or bathroom.

C3 Dwellinghouses - This class is formed of three parts 

  • C3(a) covers use by a single person or a family (a couple whether married or not, a person related to one another with members of the family of one of the couple to be treated as members of the family of the other), an employer and certain domestic employees (such as an au pair, nanny, nurse, governess, servant, chauffeur, gardener, secretary and personal assistant), a carer and the person receiving the care and a foster parent and foster child
  • C3(b) covers up to six people living together as a single household and receiving care e.g. supported housing schemes such as those for people with learning disabilities or mental health problems
  • C3(c) allows for groups of people (up to six) living together as a single household. This allows for those groupings that do not fall within the C4 HMO definition, but which fell within the previous C3 use class, to be provided for i.e. a small religious community may fall into this section as could a homeowner who is living with a lodger
  • C4 Houses in multiple occupation - Small shared houses occupied by between three and six unrelated individuals, as their only or main residence, who share basic amenities such as a kitchen or bathroom.
Over 400 homes Travel Plan £3,347
200 to 399 homes Travel Plan £2,035
80 to 199 homes Travel Plan £2,035
50 to 79 homes Travel Plan Statement None
10 to 49 homes Travel Information Pack None

D1 Non residential institutions, Medical and health services:

  • clinics and health centres;
  • crèches or day nurseries;
  • day centres and consulting rooms (not attached to the consultant‘s or doctor‘s house)
  • museums;
  • public libraries;
  • art galleries;
  • exhibition halls;
  • non-residential education and training centres

Places of worship, religious instruction and church halls.

  • E(e) Provision of medical or health services (except the use of premises attached to the residence of the consultant or practitioner)
  • E(f) Creche, day nursery or day centre (not including a residential use)
  • F1(a) Provision of education
  • F1(b) Display of works of art (otherwise than for sale or hire)
  • F1(c) Museums
  • F1(d) Public libraries or public reading rooms
  • F1(e) Public halls or exhibition halls
  • F1(f) Public worship or religious instruction (or in connection with such use)
Over 1500m² Travel Plan £3,347
1000 to 1499m² Travel Plan £2,035
500 to 999m² Travel Plan Statement None

D2 Assembly & Leisure

  • cinemas;
  • dance and concert halls;
  • sports halls & swimming baths;
  • skating rinks;
  • gymnasiums;
  • bingo halls;
  • casinos 

other indoor and outdoor sports and leisure uses not involving motorised vehicles or firearms.

F2(c) Areas or places for outdoor sport or recreation (not involving motorised vehicles or firearms)

F2(d) Indoor or outdoor swimming pools or skating rinks

Sui generis:

  • cinemas;
  • dance and concert halls;
  • sports halls & swimming baths;
  • gymnasiums;
  • bingo halls;
  • casinos 
Over 2250m² Travel Plan £3,347
1500 to 2249m² Travel Plan £2,035
500 to 1499m² Travel Plan Statement None

Schools / education

Monitoring fee for schools
Land use Type of development Type of travel plan Monitoring fee (Index linked April 2024) (£)
Schools / Education New Travel Plan £3,347
Increase in the school roll Updated Travel Plan £2,035

Others (fall outside of land uses above) for example:

  • stadium
  • nightclubs
  • theatres
  • retail warehouse clubs
  • amusement arcades
  • Petrol filling stations
  • taxi businesses
  • car and vehicle hire
  • businesses selling and displaying motor vehicles
  • hostels
  • travel and ticket agencies
  • funeral directors
  • dry cleaners
  • hairdressers
  • launderettes
  • post offices
  • builders' yards
  • hire shops
  • garden centres
    Discuss with Highways Authority

Additional considerations

Additional considerations - if outside of the threshold above
Land use Type of Travel plan Monitoring Fee (Index Linked April 2024) (£)
Development proposals generating more than 30 two-way vehicular movements in any hour, or more than 100 two-way vehicular movements in 24 hours, or more than 100 parking spaces Travel Plan Min £2,035
Development proposals not conforming to adopted development plan Travel Plan Min £2,035
An extension to an existing development that causes the total travel impact or size of the site to exceed the threshold for a Travel Plan Travel Plan Min £2,035
Any traffic-generating development in, or within 100 metres of an air quality management area (AQMA) Travel Plan Discuss with Highway Authority
Any development that lies within an area (or along a corridor) which has been identified by Oxfordshire County Council for the delivery of specific initiatives or targets for the reduction of traffic, or the promotion of walking, cycling and public transport Travel Plan Discuss with Highway Authority
Development that is likely to exacerbate local congestion and safety problems Travel Plan Discuss with Highway Authority
Developments or their access routes are adjacent to Sites of Special Scientific Interest etc. Travel Plan Discuss with Highway Authority

For mixed-use developments, a framework travel plan covering all land uses will be required to accompany outline planning applications developments and then a supplementary plan, using the thresholds in the table, for each use land use elements on the site produced for each land use that links to the overall site targets and objectives.

The travel plan monitoring fee is to cover biennial monitoring over five years (baseline, years 1, 3, and 5). The fee may be higher if it is decided that monitoring needs to extend beyond year 5.

The base fee level for the travel plan monitoring is set in the Oxfordshire County Council Guidance Document Transport for New Developments; Transport Assessments and Travel Plans (March 2014). This fee has been uplifted in line with RPI-x. The current fee uplift is set to April 2025 (RPI-x) index base.

Index base data: RPI-x March 2014 = 254.3, RPI-x Dec 2020 = 296.6