As a planning-system user, I need to know when the planning authority first received an application so that I can distinguish receipt from submission and validation and understand when the authority's handling began.
- Priority
- medium
- Status
- proposed
- Themes
- processing, transparency
- Actors
- planning-system-user
- Source
- legislation
- Variations
- dd-need-017
Justification
Justification just-0007
Capturing `received-date` alongside the application `reference` provides the statutory record of when each application arrived, enabling authorities to evidence compliance with procedural duties. The same fields let wider planning-system users distinguish receipt by the planning authority from the applicant's submission and the authority's later validation activity. This establishes when the authority's end-to-end handling of the application began.
Satisfaction: full; Confidence: high
Satisfied by:
All of:
See complete justification record: just-0007