PublicAccess - Data protection and Copyright
Data Protection Act 1998
The PublicAccess website is open to members of the public. The Data Protection Act places a requirement on the Planning Service to hold personal data only if it is accurate. Therefore as well as redacting personal information Planning Service will redact, from representations received, any comments or information it considers as being derogatory or offensive in nature.
Copyright
Plans, maps, drawings and other material submitted to Planning Service are protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (section 47). 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.
The following document types should be considered as “literary works” for the purposes of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988:
- Any type of Map, Drawing, Sketch, Plan, Elevation, Section, Level, Projection, or Model.
- Additional information, reports and statements accompanying an application
- Environmental Statements
- Traffic Impact Statements
- Retail Impact Statements
- Any type of Additional Environmental Information
- Any type of comment received to a planning application
- Any type of petition received in support of or objecting to a planning application
- In the case of an appeal, the statement of case from the Planning Service, the appellant’s statement of case and other person’s representation(s).
The owner of the copyright has the exclusive rights to copy the work, to issue copies of the work to the public and to communicate the work to the public.
