Neighbour letters and site notices - what are folks doing?Neighbour letters and site notices - what are folks doing?https://khub.net/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=53683759&threadId=5232922642024-03-29T00:42:37Z2024-03-29T00:42:37ZNeighbour letters and site notices - what are folks doing?Dave Tidyhttps://khub.net/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=53683759&messageId=5232922632021-09-09T08:31:23Z2021-09-08T16:45:04Z<p>We’re wanting to reduce postage costs within our planning service and
we’re exploring a few options – very interested to hear from other
councils who have made changes to their process to achieve the same ends.</p>
<p>Essentially we have two main costs:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Posting out the site notices to officers so that they can put
them up</p>
<li>
<p>Sending letters to neighbours informing them of a planning
application nearby</p>
</ol>
<p> </p>
<p>With regards to 1)…</p>
<p>I believe some councils are now sending the site notice to the
applicant for them to put up themselves, and asking the applicant to
email a picture of the site notice in place (to meet the
requirements). Have you experienced any problems doing this?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>With regards to 2)…</p>
<p>Have any councils moved over to emailing out neighbour letters or
simply stopped them altogether? Again, any problems or experiences
with doing this?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I’ve a few things to explore around this yet (how comprehensive an
emailing list of residents do we have, for example), and I’m also
exploring our own regulations/stated ways of working (example: our
council’s business plan states that we will ‘<em>make decisions
</em>[not just planning]<em> in a transparent, open and inclusive
way</em>’ which ceasing altogether may fall foul of).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I’m also aware of two previous threads on this subject (which are
quite old now):</p>
<p>
<a
href="https://khub.net/group/planningadvisoryservicepas/group-forum/-/message_boards/message/6232016">Re:
Planning Application Adjoining Owner / Occupier Notification Letters
- Forum - Planning Advisory Service (PAS) - Knowledge Hub (khub.net)</a></p>
<p>
<a
href="https://khub.net/group/planningadvisoryservicepas/group-forum/-/message_boards/message/6234062">Re:
Site Notice or Neighbour Letter - Postal Charges increase. - Forum -
Planning Advisory Service (PAS) - Knowledge Hub (khub.net)</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>If you've made changes in these two areas however, I'd be really
interested to hear how you got on.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
<p>Dave.</p>Dave Tidy2021-09-08T16:45:04Z