Hi guys, i submitted (online - planning portal) a planning application on 01/05/12 and phoned up to pay by visa on the same day (email receipt received too). I phoned up the LA today and was told that the validating officer was going to look at it tomorrow and if there was no further information required it would be validated tomorrow (15/05/12). THis seems an awful long time and i was wondering whether there is a timescale that LA need to keep to in reqursting info/validating applications? I am very annoyed that it has taken 2 weeks for them to even look at my application!
Length of time to validate an application
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You need to find out the councils published policy on time limits. I've just had an app take over two weeks to be registered, but they did back date it to the day they received it via the portal
It is not uncommon, in these times of short staffing and high workload, for the planners to drag out registration or even validation to gain more time
It is not uncommon, in these times of short staffing and high workload, for the planners to drag out registration or even validation to gain more time
so is there any legal come back? i have read in 'best practice' guides of 'reasonable timescales'. very hard to provand is it ever worth taking it any further? what would the process be?
I used the online planning portal for an app that I made three years go. There was a long delay so I called the council to ask if they'd received it. The response was:
"Oh, we only download those once every week or so, and then we have to print them out and put them in the in-tray of the lady that deals with the incoming postal applications"
"Oh, we only download those once every week or so, and then we have to print them out and put them in the in-tray of the lady that deals with the incoming postal applications"
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Legal comeback for what? What losses have you incurred?
Haha Gary, i think things have moved on a bit since then!
Woody, no losses, just annoyance!!!
I wouldn't be so certain things have moved on... I know that one of my local councils print out the documents received in pdf, stamp them with their special stamp and then scan them back in.
Technology eh?
Technology eh?
I wouldn't be so certain things have moved on... I know that one of my local councils print out the documents received in pdf, stamp them with their special stamp and then scan them back in.
Technology eh?
My local LA does that. I wonder if they know about stamping a pdf in software?
Also, they insist on a scale bar on every drawing, and will invalidate the application without this. However, they then go on to stick their own scale sticker on every plan regardless!
Planning applications are valid from the day the app and payment is received by the local authority. Even if they have to ask for further information they shouldn't really delay validation - although they do all the time. But there's no claim for anything. The only remedy in planning applications is to go to appeal. Which is no real remedy at all in your case but there's nowt else you can do.
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