This document explains the forms overview page and describes how to fill in some of the different elements you will find within the forms.
The ‘forms overview page’ shows you whether each part of the application form is complete or incomplete. Usually the site location is already complete because this information is provided when creating an application.
Clicking on the form section name in this list will take you to the appropriate part of the form. For example clicking on ‘Documentation’ will take you to the supporting documents section.
Once that section of the form has been filled in and validated by the system, its status will change from ‘incomplete’ to ‘complete’.
If you want a paper version of your application for future reference then you can click on the ‘print application’ link on the forms overview page. This will download a PDF to your computor for you to print.
Additionally you can download the ‘application guidance notes’ that can be found on the ‘forms overview page’.
Once you are in the forms, you need to fill in all the information. You can move between them with the ‘next’ and ‘previous’ buttons. Clicking on either of these will automatically save your progress. The status of each section won’t change until you press either the ‘next’ or ‘previous’ buttons. Make sure you do that before going back to the ‘overview’. To get back to the ‘forms overview’ page, you need to click on the forms tab at the top of the forms panel.
Throughout the forms you will be asked to supply a date. Dates need to be inputted numerically with forward slashes to separate the numbers, starting with two digits for the day, two digits for the month then four digits for the year.
There will be times when you are asked to supply a document reference. This can be anything as long as it matches a reference you put on the document you are uploading. This is so the local planning authority knows which document goes with which part of the form. You can upload the necessary documents later in the ‘supporting document’ section.
The last step in the forms is the validation. This section checks that the forms have been filed in correctly. The forms need to be fully validated before you can send them with your application.
The validation section lists which sections still need to be completed. Below each section header it says more specifically what needs to be done for the form to validate. Clicking on that instruction it will actually take us to the section of the form that needs completing.
When you amend the form you need to make sure you click next to save what you have done before going back to the overview. Not doing this will result in your amendments not being saved and the section still wont validate.
Additional help can be found by clicking on the ‘help’ icons on the form.
