Planning Authority standards for online submissions
The Planning Authority Standards are:
1. File sizes for electronic submissions
- No individual file is greater than 5 Mb
- No .zip or .exe files are submitted
2. Drawings
- Drawings submitted in single layer PDF format
- Where possible supply drawings in A3
- Do not supply drawings with optional scales at different paper sizes
- Scanned drawings are a minimum 200 dpi resolution
- List of drawings supplied to include drawing number, description and paper size
- Critical dimensions checked on PDF and are in scale
- Orientation of PDF drawings correct when viewed on screen
- Include a scale bar and key dimensions on all drawings
3. Other documents
- Letters, reports must be in PDF format
4. Photographs
- List of photographs/photo montages annotated with title and context/purpose explained
- Size of each photograph file to be below 1 Mb
- Photographs can be provided on CD/DVD
- Photographs to be a maximum size of 15x10cm
5. Electronic file naming
- A list of all submitted documents is included
- All document/drawing file names comprise brief description in plain English
Contact information
Planning Team