PublicAccess for Planning

PublicAccess for Planning is our online internet service that allows you to view details of planning applications received by us.  The planning application details contained within the site are updated on a continuous basis.
 

See the PublicAccess site

PublicAccess allows you to:

• follow the progress of an application
• view associated plans and documents, including officer's report and decision notice
• make comments on an application
• search a weekly list of applications and decisions
• see if appeals have been lodged and any decisions made
• see recent planning history, property details, including maps and constraints
• search enforcement cases

Problems or queries?

If you experience problems using PublicAccess for Planning or have any queries about the information shown on the site, please contact us with details and we will do our best to assist you.

Email:   customerservices.ptsd@bristol.gov.uk 
Telephone:   0117 922 3097

Limitations of the service

• Under normal circumstances plans and documents associated with new planning applications can be viewed within 5 working days of validation of the application. If none is displayed at the time, you can try a few days later. Alternatively you can view the application and associated documents at Brunel House, St George’s Road during normal office hours.
• Associated plans and documents will only be available for applications received after 1st August 2005.
• For practical reasons, not all documents can be displayed, although these will continue to be available at Brunel House as usual.
• If for any reason PublicAccess is unavailable, you can view and download associated documents via UK Planning.
• The online planning history contained within the site at present is incomplete and must not be used as a substitute for carrying out a formal “Land Charge Search”. No responsibility will be taken for any errors or omissions in the planning history information obtained from PublicAccess.
• Similarly the information contained within PublicAccess does not constitute in any way a formal notification of a planning decision, and as such any actions taken as a result of information displayed on the site are undertaken entirely at the viewer’s own risk.
• The department has not yet had time to check the accuracy of all the site boundaries back to 1947. If an obvious error is found, please contact us and it will be corrected as quickly as possible.

Viewing PublicAccess in your web browser

• PublicAccess is best viewed with Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, other web browsers may not support all of its functionality.
• If you are using Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher and the application does not appear to work as expected, please check your browser options.
• PublicAccess uses pop-up windows to provide help and results. Windows XP service pack 2 has added a pop-up blocker tool to Internet Explorer. You will need to adjust your default pop-up settings to use the full functionality of PublicAccess (see Tools - Internet Options - Privacy).

Please note that file sizes can be large and may take a while to download.

Conditions of use

Plans, drawings and material submitted to the council are protected by the Copyright Acts (Section 47, 1988 Act).

You may only use material which is downloaded and/or printed for consultation purposes, to compare current applications with previous schemes and to check whether developments have been completed in accordance with approved plans.

Further copies must not be made without the prior permission of the copyright owner