Supporting documents for appeals submitted online

To help us make sure that the information in your electronic documents can be effectively handled by us, wherever possible please prepare the documents and submissions you wish to attach as described below and in the pages shown on the left under this heading.

Please note that this advice applies equally to online appeal forms, questionnaires, their attachments, and to documents sent via email.

Document submitted online

If you submitted documents electronically with the online appeal form there is no need to send the documents to us again by post or e-mail. 

The final page of the online appeal form gives a list of all of the documents you attached to the online form and any documents you marked to follow.  You only need to send us copies of documents you marked to follow.

Please e-mail supporting documents for a new appeal which was submitted online to postalappeals@pins.gsi.gov.uk.

Avoid infringing copyright

Please bear in mind that if you are scanning in material to send to us, this must be done with the owner's permission and with any copyright licence fee paid. Also bear in mind that you may only scan an Ordnance Survey map if you:

• have an annual licence to copy (£45 per site) to do so, or
• have purchased a bulk copy arrangement, or
• are using an Local Authority-supplied map under the 'map return scheme' (for which a fee is normally payable at the Local Authority's discretion), or
• have purchased the site-specific map from the Planning Portal for the purposes of attaching to a planning application, appeal or representation

More information on Ordnance Survey map licensing is available on their website.