Comments that contain the type of information listed below can’t be considered when assessing a planning application.
We can’t take into account:
- loss of private views
- effects on property values
- personal disagreements
- boundary disputes, covenants or other private property restrictions
We reserve the right not to accept comments containing:
- statements relating to enforcement or compliance matters
- excessive personal information
- sensitive personal information
- opinions not related to the planning application
- defamatory or libellous allegations or statements
What we won't publish
To protect your personal data, we will blank out the following information before it’s published:
- signatures
- addresses other than the site address or anything that connects individuals to where they live
- personal e-mail addresses
- private telephone numbers
- names and ages of relatives or dependants
- any personal family information
- details of where people work
- medical information, including disability (except where it has been provided as evidence to the Green Zone policy of a dependant relative)
- medical history, including hospital admittance
- death of others
- people depicted in photographs, especially children
- vehicle licence plate numbers
- views into private property taken from other land
We’ll blank out the following commercial information:
- financial information
- business cases
- land ownership, purchase or transfer
When you submit comments on an application, we’ll blank out the following information before it’s published:
- comments or opinions about individuals of a sensitive or personal nature, whether negative or positive
- negative comments about individual staff members
- comments or opinions that have no relevance to the application or planning process
- defamatory comments of any nature, libellous allegations or statements
- statements relating to enforcement, police or other investigations