Press Release Date: 5th October 2011

Planning Portal Rip Off

Well ok not a rip off as such, our good friends at the Planning Portal have kindly agreed to let me replicate this useful article, just in case you missed it, as it applies to Building Control as much as it does to Planning.

Date stamping of online electronic documents by PortalDirector on August 18, 2011

Recently it has come to light that some LPAs are still printing off online documents and manually date stamping them. Having checked the legislation with policy colleagues, we can confirm that electronic documents do not require a "date stamp"and should be directly uploaded on to the LPA's online application registers on their website.

As long as LPAs record the date received and date validated for each application in their back-office IT systems this satisifes legislative and audit requirements.

From feedback received by the portal, agents prefer LPAs to use their original CAD plans and drawings as scanning affects the resolution and quality of the images which can give a poor respresentation of their work. It will also save time and money for LPAs.