Wiltshire Council Unitary Authority change on the Portal

Just a quick post to confirm that some technical changes to consolidate Wiltshire Council on the Portal were successfully implemented last night.

It means the old 1APP entries for Wiltshire authorities on the Portal were removed (they were disbanded in 2009 to create a larger Wiltshire Unitary authority following a local government review) and replaced with a single Wiltshire Council authority entry.

This change also includes an update of all the contact information for the authority.

The change has meant Wiltshire Council no-longer has to manually retrieve online applications and re-key the information into its IT systems for registration and validation.

Applications will now populate the new back-office system to help the authority realise greater efficiency and resource savings.

I apologise for any inconvenience last night’s downtime caused you as we introduced the change.