Date of Receipt For Electronic Applications - Public forum - Planning Advisory Service (PAS)

At Bath & NE Somerset Council we also date an application submitted over the weekend (therefore outside of normal working hours) as received on the next working day (Monday). The Planning Portal also gave us the same advice last year when we clarified with them the safe issue. Regards, John

It would seem correct to use the same method as per your postal and personal applications, with anything outside the usual working hours being dealt with the next working day. As John has noted I believe that is the advice which the planning portal has given in the past. It would seem unfair on the LPA to 'lose', for example, 4 (or 5) days for an application submitted via the portal at 11:59 this evening! Neil

I am confused by the use of the word 'start'? I thought this word only applied to planning appeals? Do you mean the data the 8 or 13-week clock starts? The important date is when an application is deemed to be 'valid', which could be some time after its receipt. I collect the PS1 and PS2 returns for the DCLG and I use the 'valid' and 'decision sent' dates - no mention of start date. Cheers Gary

Sorry Gary, I was assuming (very optimistically) that the elctronic application would contain sufficient information on submission for validation and would therefore have as date valid the date of receipt. I think that it's reasonable to deal with them as suggested by Neil and John above but for prior notifications I am worried that the reasonable approach may not be strictly legal if challenged. Carol.