The discussion about the methodology of the calculations and the issue of which element of planning the fees are supposed to relate to highlights our members’ concern about the fact that we are still not clear how the figures have been arrived at.To give a crude, back-of-an-envelope example, a £100,000 maximum fee would equate to a 425-house development, which in the scheme of things is not a huge development—it is significant, but not huge; it is certainly not of the scale of a sustainable new...