Get on top of a new build with planning maps online

It’s a legal requirement, in the UK, to provide a set of planning maps for any extension, add on or new build. With typical bureaucratic thoroughness, UK planning authorities require detailed maps in two distinct scales – a site map and a location map. The site map shows the actual dimensions of the new build and its immediate surroundings: the location map shows where that build will be in relation to its neighbourhood. Fortunately for the budding extender, modifier or new builder, a new planning maps online service is enabling them to deliver the right maps, at the right scales, for little money and in very good time.
The service, which is run by Planning Required (a subsidiary of the UK’s most successful and famous online map provider) works by tapping into the whole-country database of mapping information that company owns. The database is completely up to date, showing the results of an ongoing aerial mapping project that re-covers the UK in continuous sweeps, creating a living online representation of its topography and buildings. When a customer orders planning maps online from the site, the system simply spits out the data for the co-ordinates required, in the size that local authority stipulates for the location plan and site plan. Because the data is already there, the maps are generated in a matter of minutes – all pre-programmed to conform exactly to the standards of the planning authorities in question.
Anyone who has ever tried to make sense, manually, of the tortuous web of red tape surrounding even with the simplest extension will know how invaluable this service is destined to be. Once again, the Internet and the computing power of the modern world is showing itself in its best light. Red tape, after all, is merely rules, however complicated it might seem – and rules are what computers run on. The planning maps online service has simply translated those rules into computer program instructions – which means that the website, and the program that runs it, unfailingly produce accurate and authority-friendly maps for their users.
The facility has been given two levels of use, both of which are accessed from a simple starting screen. A one off customer can order planning maps on the spot, which are generated and sent both as an email and as hard copies in the post. One payment and the end of story. People that require planning maps on a regular basis (developers and so on) can opt for a more involved service, which stores copies of the planning maps online in a personal data vault. That means multiple projects can not only be applied for and granted, but also backed up in full on someone else’s (the company that runs the site) server. We all know what back up means, in this day and age – a life line in the unfortunately inevitable event that something goes wrong with one’s own systems.
It’s an ideal use of net technology, this – one that frees the casual developer from the nightmare of regulations that normally surrounds even the simple act of building a greenhouse; while also giving professional developers a trustworthy tool to aid them in their work. Planning maps online will become industry standard before long.

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