3. Softcopy Telepermit Applications
For the past 15 years or so, we have had to keep the majority of our Telepermit records off site due to the finite amount of office space we have available. We endevoured to keep the most recent two or three years of records, as these are the ones most likely to be referred to. However, electronic storage makes it far more economical, and far more convenient to store all records electronically. We would therefore encourage all Telepermit Applications and supporting information to be sent to us either on CD ROM, or as email attachments. One caveat however, email attachments which are too large can be blocked, and no notification is given to either the sender or or adressee that this has happened. Some years ago attachments of over 2 MByte were being blocked, although now it seems that anything up to about 12 MB seems to be ok. If there are a number of large attachments it is a good idea to send them separately, and limit the total attachments per email to about 12 MB. We are looking at getting a common email address for the group, so that all applications etc can be sent to one common email address.
Richard Brent
Access Standards
