Consultation on our regulatory fees and charges for 2026/2027

Results updated 1 Apr 2026

As a Welsh Government (WG) sponsored body, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) must comply with requirements set out in ‘Managing Welsh Public Money.’ This means that wherever possible, we fully recover the costs of the regulatory services we provide from those who use them, rather than having those services funded through general taxation.

For the period from 1st April 2026, we have as far as possible, maintained our regulatory charges at current levels. However, adjustments are necessary to manage inflationary and other cost pressures and to manage deficits in specific regimes.

We commenced a long-term programme of work to ensure that charging across NRW is cost reflective and our regulatory work is sustainably funded. We implemented the recent Strategic Review of Charging for applications in April 2023 and have started work to review subsistence charging for Water Resources and Water Quality.

Files:

Closed 12 Jan 2026

Opened 20 Oct 2025

Contact

Regulatory Business Management Team

sroc@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk

Overview

We are consulting on our proposals to update the charges for some of our permits, licences and compliance activities. You can find the full charging proposals below. Please read this before proceeding with the questions.

Our consultation questions ask you for your views on our proposals. We will use the feedback to inform our final proposals, which we intend to implement from April 2026, subject to Welsh Government approval.

Please fill in the sections headed About You and the General Questions before moving on to the regime specific sections. 

If you have any queries, please contact us by email at: sroc@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk

Areas

  • All Areas

Audiences

  • Adfer afonydd
  • Anglers
  • Arbenigwyr adfer mwyngloddiau
  • Citizens
  • citizens
  • Coal Authority
  • Coastal Group Members
  • Cockles
  • Community Volunteers
  • DCWW
  • Designated Landscapes
  • Educators
  • EPR and COMAH facilities
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Flooding
  • Fly-fishing
  • Forest Management
  • Gwent
  • Gwirfoddolwyr Cymunedol
  • Llifogydd
  • marine developers
  • marine planners
  • Metal mines
  • Mine recovery specialists
  • Mwyngloddiau metel
  • National Access Forum
  • Network Completion Project Task and Finish Group
  • Newport Green and Safe Spaces
  • NFU
  • River restoration
  • Rivers
  • SoNaRR2020
  • South West Stakeholder group
  • Tirweddau dynonedig
  • Wales Biodiversity Partnership
  • water companies
  • Woodland Opportunity Map users

Interests

  • Strategic review of charging