Press Release Date: 19th June 2006

DataSpace Consult On-line

Planning Consultations Go On-line

Resolution announces new DataSpace Consult On-line for electronic consultation.
Using DataSpace Consult On-line consultations on planning applications can now be carried out on-line.

Overview
Planning applications received through the Planning Portal or received as paper applications and scanned can easily be published to DataSpace Consult On-line for consultation. DataSpace Consult On-line invites a group of consultees to review and comment on applications facilitating a shared consultation environment. Consultees are directed to specific applications through a link in an email and need to securely
logon in order to access the application.

Viewing & Commenting
The document viewing tools support 280 file formats enabling fast and simple viewing of the native file formats without complex file translation and its inherent problems. As well as viewing textual documents specific functionality is provided to deal with plans such as calibration, measuring and printing to scale. Comments can be created as annotations, notes and even as uploaded documents. Other consultees comments can be viewed but not edited enabling an incremental iterative approach to consultations, resolving conflicting views between consultees as part of a dynamic consultation process.

Inviting Consultees
The Planning Department or the application sponsor can chose which applications to publish for consultation either directly from the Planning Portal, directly from scanned applications or from DataSpace. Consultees are setup once and can then be selected and automatically invited to consult on an application but only invited consultees are able to access an application. Once a comment is made the sponsor is notified and directed to the relevant comment.

Scanned and Planning Portal Applications
DataSpace Consult On-line extends the usage of electronic data into the consultation environment helping justify the cost of scanning paper applications by removing the cost of creating multiple paper copies and the costs of manual paper distribution. Applications already scanned to enable public consultation and applications received electronically through the Planning Portal can now be provided to statutory consultees without the high costs of document printing and paper distribution. DataSpace Consult On-line provides a secure, feature rich, dynamic consultation environment incorporating consultees into the electronic approval process.

To discuss this further or arrange a demonstration of DataSpace Consult On-line please Contact Steven Mabbutt at Resolution Data Management.