Planning amusement

[DrFfybes]

Local Authorities love hiding their contact details - they call it "demand management".

So Shropshire planning is pretty good at hiding the phone number once you are in the maze of subpages, including planning and pre-planning.
We want pre planning as we have a few choices for design of an upstairs extension - box dormer, chickets, reprofile roof slop with different tiles, etc and have found in the past Exeter are VERY funny about this.

So we downloaded the form, https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/planning/ ... uest-form/ printed it out, found a map of (roughly) the correct scale, wrote a cheque for the fee, and then tried to send it to the address on the form. Sadly this was an email address. Whilst that should be fine for the form and the plan, I suspect they'll struggle cashing the cheque.

I'm beginning to think pre-planning is not often used in Shropshire.

Paul

[kempiejon]

My bank, so I'm pretty sure most others do to, have a paying in cheques by photo option, just attach a jpeg of the cheque for the fee to the e-mail address. If it doesn't work it might get them to contact you to offer a postal address.
Or perhaps you'll get a bounce back saying the email is invalid.

[AF62]

Local Authorities love hiding their contact details - they call it "demand management".

So Shropshire planning is pretty good at hiding the phone number once you are in the maze of subpages, including planning and pre-planning.

??? Menu top left of their website and the bottom option - https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/customer- ... ontact-us/ Planning and building control 0345 678 9004

So we downloaded the form, https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/planning/ ... uest-form/ printed it out, found a map of (roughly) the correct scale, wrote a cheque for the fee, and then tried to send it to the address on the form. Sadly this was an email address. Whilst that should be fine for the form and the plan, I suspect they'll struggle cashing the cheque.

Sure the form is badly worded but took seconds to find out how to pay and a physical address - https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/planning/ ... plication/

[DrFfybes]

Local Authorities love hiding their contact details - they call it "demand management".

So Shropshire planning is pretty good at hiding the phone number once you are in the maze of subpages, including planning and pre-planning.

??? Menu top left of their website and the bottom option - https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/customer- ... ontact-us/ Planning and building control 0345 678 9004

Yes, but as I said, once in the planning pages that disappears.


Sure the form is badly worded but took seconds to find out how to pay and a physical address - https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/planning/ ... plication/[/quote]

I cannot see any contact details on my PC on this link.

Paul

[GoSeigen]

Local Authorities love hiding their contact details - they call it "demand management".

So Shropshire planning is pretty good at hiding the phone number once you are in the maze of subpages, including planning and pre-planning.
We want pre planning as we have a few choices for design of an upstairs extension - box dormer, chickets, reprofile roof slop with different tiles, etc and have found in the past Exeter are VERY funny about this.

So we downloaded the form, https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/planning/ ... uest-form/ printed it out, found a map of (roughly) the correct scale, wrote a cheque for the fee, and then tried to send it to the address on the form. Sadly this was an email address. Whilst that should be fine for the form and the plan, I suspect they'll struggle cashing the cheque.

I'm beginning to think pre-planning is not often used in Shropshire.

Paul

And the form is supplied on Micro$oft doc format. I thought people stopped doing that around 2003?

GS

[AF62]

Local Authorities love hiding their contact details - they call it "demand management".

So Shropshire planning is pretty good at hiding the phone number once you are in the maze of subpages, including planning and pre-planning.

??? Menu top left of their website and the bottom option - https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/customer- ... ontact-us/ Planning and building control 0345 678 9004

Yes, but as I said, once in the planning pages that disappears.

Don't know what is going on with your machine but the 'Menu' in the top left is still there when I look at the planning page - https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/planning/

Sure the form is badly worded but took seconds to find out how to pay and a physical address - https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/planning/ ... plication/

I cannot see any contact details on my PC on this link.

Paul

Bottom link "If you're unable to submit your application online" says Applications can be submitted to the following address:

Central Validation Team
Development Management
Shropshire Council
Shirehall
Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury SY2 6ND.

and before that the Fee Payment section says

You can pay in the following ways:

During online submission in the Planning Portal
Online through our 'Pay For It' system (please ensure that the applicant's name and site address are included with the payment)
By debit/credit card over the phone by calling 0345 678 9004 (applications made online should quote the Planning Portal reference number allocated during submission)

[production100]

So Shropshire planning is pretty good at hiding the phone number once you are in the maze of subpages, including planning and pre-planning.
We want pre planning as we have a few choices for design of an upstairs extension - box dormer, chickets, reprofile roof slop with different tiles, etc and have found in the past Exeter are VERY funny about this.

Has Exeter moved to Shropshire now. How the World changes...

[Mike4]

So Shropshire planning is pretty good at hiding the phone number once you are in the maze of subpages, including planning and pre-planning.
We want pre planning as we have a few choices for design of an upstairs extension - box dormer, chickets, reprofile roof slop with different tiles, etc and have found in the past Exeter are VERY funny about this.

Has Exeter moved to Shropshire now. How the World changes...

Indeed, and we now have "Staines-on-Thames". How weird does that seem? And why does it grate so badly?

[88V8]

....we now have "Staines-on-Thames". How weird does that seem?

Home of The Goons?

V8