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Building Approval Fee Calculator

Estimate the UDA building-approval bill for a Sri Lankan project — Preliminary Planning Clearance (where it applies), Development Permit fee, Certificate of Conformity and the Post-Permit Follow-up fee — line by line, from the current gazetted schedule.

Source: every figure is taken directly from Schedule 2 of the Urban Development Authority Planning & Development Regulations 2021 (Gazette Extraordinary No. 2235/54 of 22 July 2021), which applies directly in UDA-declared areas and is the schedule Colombo Municipal Council (and other local authorities exercising delegated UDA powers) work from as the City Planning Division's "Development Permit" / "Certificate of Conformity" process. A council's own Planning Committee can still set or vary a fee at its discretion in specific cases (the City of Colombo Development Plan, for instance, leaves some processing fees to Committee discretion rather than a fixed rate), and a Pradeshiya Sabha area outside UDA jurisdiction sets fees under its own gazetted by-law. Treat this as a grounded estimate and confirm the exact figure with the relevant authority before relying on it for budgeting.

Changing this does not change the total below. No published source gives a different, authority-specific rate table — the Development Permit and Certificate of Conformity fees in Schedule 2 apply UDA-wide, and this is the schedule CMC and other authorities work from. Your selected authority may still add its own site-specific or discretionary charges; confirm directly before budgeting.

Schedule 2's Development Permit and Certificate of Conformity fees only price three rate categories — commercial, mixed-use, industrial and religious & charity projects all use the same non-residential rate, since the gazette doesn't price them separately.

Total approved built-up area. For an extension, enter only the new/additional area.

Used only to approximate height (storeys × 3.0 m) against the 15 m Preliminary Planning Clearance trigger.

The Authority may exempt these from Preliminary Planning Clearance fees, subject only to a Rs 5,000 administrative charge (Schedule 2, item 21) — does not affect the Development Permit or CoC fee, which have no published exemption.

Badulla, Nuwara Eliya, Kandy, Kegalle, Ratnapura, Matale, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, or Hambantota (some sub-areas are exempted — confirm with NBRO). Clearance is mandatory before the local authority can approve the plan, per Ministry of Disaster Management Circular No. 2011/1 of 10 Feb 2011.

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What's not included

If the site is in a landslide-prone district, NBRO landslide clearance is a separate, mandatory requirement before the local authority can approve the plan. Tick the box above to add its fee to the total.

All figures are excluding tax, per the gazette's own heading. A Rs 50/km transport cost for site inspection is charged separately and isn't computed here. Penalty-type charges (unapproved parking shortfalls, unauthorised/already-built construction, occupation without a CoC) use a different Schedule 2 table and aren't covered by this calculator.

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