This document describes some of the steps you need to take to add supporting document s to your application.
There are different types of documents you will need to supply, these will differ depending on your local planning authority so its best to contact them if you are not sure what you need to supply.
You may need to supply a site plan. If you don’t have one, you can make one with our ‘site location plan creator’. This can be found by clicking the ‘create site plan link’ towards the right of the supporting documents page.
To add a document you will need to click ‘Add details’ for mandatory documents or ‘add document’ for optional documents.
When you add a document, you need to add 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 need to choose whether you want to upload the document electronically or forward it by post to your local planning authority.
If you choose to upload the document electronically we need to know what size your document is. This is so when its printed out, its in the right scale. Do this by selecting the paper size the document should be printed on, from the paper size menu.
We also need to know what format the document is, use the file format menu to select your document’s extension type. You can find your file extension by looking at the sequence of letters that appear after the file name.
To find the file you want to attach, click on ‘browse’. It will bring up a window that allows you to look through you computers files and select the document you need to attach. When you have found the file you want, select it and then click ‘open’. Your file location should appear in the form box next to the browse button.
Be aware that when uploading a document its file size cant be any larger than 5 megabytes and that all your attachments should not be more than 25 megabytes in total.
Click ‘OK’ to upload the document, or click ‘cancel’ to cancel the document upload.
Once a document has been uploaded, its reference will appear in the mandatory documentation box. If you want to change any of the details about the document then click the ‘Edit details link’. Click ‘Remove’ if you want to delete the document form your application.
So that’s it for this section. If you need any additional help look out for the blue help icons through out the site. Alternatively you can download the guidance notes from the application overview page.
