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General Customer Service

General customer service within Planning and Development comms plan

Route

Response/time

Format

Telephone - general enquiries

Answer promptly during office hours and in line with published availability.

Verbal

Voicemail/telephone call back requests

Respond within 2 working days

Verbal or written

Voicemail message

Kept up to date and confirms: when officer is due to return to the office and who might be contacted in the interim if urgent.

Voicemail

Letters/email – general enquiries

Acknowledge within 2 working days

Full response within 10 working days

Written or Verbal

Out of office

Kept up to date and confirms: when officer is due to return to the office and who might be contacted in the interim if urgent.

Written

Public register

To make the Planning Register available free of charge and accessible 24 hours per day

Website

Access to archive plans and documents

Provide access to information or copy documents as requested as soon as possible based on complexity of enquiry.

Requests will be handled in line with Freedom of Information legislation with a 20 working days timescale as a maximum.

Written or in person (inspection of records)

Access to service data

Further guidance available on our website

Website

Access to development plans

Adopted Development Plans will be made available for inspection free of charge and accessible 24 hours per day on our website.

Hardcopy plans can be produced on payment of the required fee and available within 10 working days of receipt of payment.

Website

Hard copy available on request, on payment of £24.30

Website pages

Review quarterly (routinely as a minimum)

Website

Data publication

In line with Data Publication Policy

Website

Data Retention

In line with Data Retention Policy

N/A

Refunds

Once refund has been authorised, it can take up to 10 working days to reach customer account