Hi all,
I also contacted the DCLG and Planning Portal, I received the following response from the latter:
“Thank you for your e-mail. I have spoken to our development team who are aware of the form updates; however before they can commit to an update on the site, they need to thoroughly investigate the technical implications any changes to the forms will have (for example, any Local Planning Authority that download applications automatically may need to make changes to their connector software before any update can go live)
As soon as they have completed their investigation and confirmed what and when any updates will be made, then our communications team will be in touch.”
Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be a helpful response especially in regards to monitoring Self/Custom Build permissions. This is especially pertinent for our authority as we have yet to implement CIL.
Thanks Liz, I will talk our Planning Officers about getting explicit references to Self-build in applications and will look into CT.
Any further advice/experiences with monitoring self/custom build would be appreciated!
