At stroud we have scanned all the decision notice back to 1947 and have them on our website together with the plotting sheets. This has reduced the land charge agent's queries by 90%. we distroyed the originals. We have also digitised the planning file (though these were already microfilmed) but we have kept the microfilm. these are not on the web as they still contain over 2 million images which may contain signatures, email addresses and phone numbers. Both projects were carried out following a risk assessment on business continuity. This approach has also allowed us to be more flexable on homeworking as all the data is either on the web or available via citrix. Phill
