Highest Ever Monthly Online Planning Application numbers!
Just a quick note to report that December broke the record for the highest ever percentage of planning applications submitted online.
We calculate that 38.2% of planning applications were submitted online compared with a previous high of 36.6%.
The North East stands out as the leading region with more than 47% of applications submitted online whilst more than 20% of authorities across the country received more than half their applications online.
All this set against a background of fairly slow progress in 2009 reflecting the overall downturn in the number of applications submitted.
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visited the council only to find out we have to go online!yes we have access but NO we’re not regular users.all we want is permission to extend on the side of our property without the trouble of computer questions to confuse us!after 2hours still we’re still no nearer to any answers we are looking for!Now what.tryin to do everything the right way and computers have stopped us.how frustrating!