The one millionth planning application has been processed by the Government’s planning resource website, a site that has now delivered savings of approximately £285 million to applicants and councils, England’s Planning Minister Bob Neill has announced.
Nearly 60 per cent of all planning applications in England and Wales are now submitted electronically via the Planning Portal, bringing greater efficiency to the planning process for councils who assess and determine applications, and applicants.
Cutting down the number of paper applications has also made a major contribution to reducing the carbon footprint of the planning process by cutting out more than 8,000 tonnes of Co2 from the 32 million pieces of paper that have been saved.
The millionth application was submitted by a householder and will now be processed by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council.
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