Westgate development
From:
Shey Cobley
Date:
Mar 14 11:45 UTC
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Please find below the answers to Chris Brewer's questions. The answers should
also cover the comments made earlier by Stephanie:
a)for some applications consultee comments are displayed as 'No Details'?
The planning web site (Public Access) displays data from the back office system
in real time. When a field displays ‘No Details’ it means that there is no data
in that field in the back office system.
The consultee comments lists the number the number of standard consultees (see
answer to b below) that have been sent a consultation letter.
Not all letters receive a reply so there are blank rows in the back office
system.
b)what is the relationship between consultee comments and the documents listed
under 'View associated documents'? I would have thought that each time someone
comments this should generate a line on the consultee comments page, but this
does not seem to be the case.
Consultee Comments are comments from Standard Consultees.
Standard Consultees are national and local bodies, organisations or amenity
groups for which we have names, addresses and information about what sort of
applications they want/need to be consulted on.
Standard consultees are separate from local residents in an area to whom we
send consultation letters informing them of applications on which they may want
to comment.
The comments from the Standard Consultees are recorded in the back office
system and displayed on the Public Access system. The comments from these
Standard Consultees should appear in the Consultee Comments.
The comments from neighbours and the general public should appear in the
Associated Documents. All comments should be available via one or other
mechanism.
The software we use dictates this process. The current functionality is not
ideal but it does make sure all comments are available to view whilst an
application is current and pending a decision.
c)why has all the public comment been removed from the Westgate application?
Our policy, as with many other authorities, is to display comments on an
application whilst it is current and to remove them when an application is
decided.
These comments do not form part of the public planning register, but if anyone
requests to view them after the application has been decided the planning
department will make them available on an individual basis.
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