Pre-applications made public on the LA website - Public forum - Planning Advisory Service (PAS)

 When we wrote the 10 Commitments to effective pre-application was debated quite extensively in the group. The presumption in the act is that such information should only be openly accessible unless there is a compelling  why it should remain confidential. But at the bottom line it is the councils discretion. Most LPAs seem to take the view that they will keep all pre-apps discussions private in order to encourage developers to be more forthcoming but ideally, the council should make a decision case by case, and make a decision to keep it confidential only when there is a reason of commercial confidentiality .    Bristol are one one of the LPAs  that do publish pre-apps discussions, and Bryan Cadman may see this post and provide you with some more detail, John.