Features and benefits
Our online planning system which has been designed to offer many more features to our customers. The core of the new system is an ability to set up pro-active, personal email notifications, based on the applications and locations you are interested in.
Other significant features are better search options and improved accessibility. The new features are detailed below.
Registration
If you register your details and create your own personal profile you can receive automatic emails when an application of the type that you are interested in is submitted to us.
Searching
You can search by various options to suit your requirements, for example, by:
- ward, parish, date validated, by status such as ‘all those pending consideration’
- decision such as ‘all those refused’
- description or proposal such as ‘single storey rear extensions’, ‘porches’ or ‘change of use’
Saving a search
If you have registered on the system, you can save your regular searches - saving time the next time you visit the site.
Map search
You can view where applications are located on a map within a pre- selected time period, such as the last 6 weeks, or 2 years, with the option to zoom in and out.
You can hold the cursor over the dots on the map to identify the application reference and summary details are given on the screen.
Tracking applications
You can track applications and receive an automatic email when there is a change in the status field.
You can keep up to date with what is happening to your own, or your client’s application, or ones which you have an interest in.
Property and postcode search
You can search alphabetically by street to see all the applications in progress for that street address.
You are also able to search by postcode to view all applications allocated to a selected postcode.