Anyone here used the Three Rivers council's web site to track planning
applications? (From http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/ click the Environment
and Planning menu item and then Planning - View Applications.)

There is an option to view images (presumably scans) of the forms and
plans submitted with specific applications. However, it is broken.
Clicking on the view icons results in "404 Not found" errors being
returned. Officials within the planning department tell me that the images
display properly for them; well of course they would these people are
sitting behind their firewall!

They also tell me that "the web site works best with Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5.5 or later", which really means "works only with ...". (I don't
use, won't use, can't use IE --- being a Linux/Mac user IE simply isn't an
option.)

If anyone has succeeded in viewing specific applications what browser did 
you use? Indeed has anyone (outside of the council) succeesfully viewed 
images for any application?

Regards, Trevor

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Trevor Jenkins wrote:
> Anyone here used the Three Rivers council's web site to track planning
> applications? (From http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/ click the Environment
> and Planning menu item and then Planning - View Applications.)
> 
> There is an option to view images (presumably scans) of the forms and
> plans submitted with specific applications. However, it is broken.
> Clicking on the view icons results in "404 Not found" errors being
> returned. Officials within the planning department tell me that the images
> display properly for them; well of course they would these people are
> sitting behind their firewall!
> 
> They also tell me that "the web site works best with Microsoft Internet
> Explorer 5.5 or later", which really means "works only with ...". (I don't
> use, won't use, can't use IE --- being a Linux/Mac user IE simply isn't an
> option.)
> 
> If anyone has succeeded in viewing specific applications what browser did 
> you use? Indeed has anyone (outside of the council) succeesfully viewed 
> images for any application?
> 
> Regards, Trevor
> 
> <>< Re: deemed!

Works for me using either Internet Explorer or the Opera browser but not 
with Firefox.  What's the PA number, I can always download and then 
e-mail the 'jpg's to you if that would help.  Be warned though, some of 
TRDC's scans are not too hot.  I had to ring them up and get them to 
re-do one as the writing on the plan was illegible.

-- 
Ian Edwards

He's not dead, he's electroencephalographically challenged.

On 20 Mar 2007 09:00:14 GMT, Trevor.Jenkins@suneidesis.com (Trevor
Jenkins) wrote:


>If anyone has succeeded in viewing specific applications what browser did 
>you use? Indeed has anyone (outside of the council) succeesfully viewed 
>images for any application?

Latest Opera works or you can view the pages in Firefox by right
clicking on the link icon, selecting "copy link location" and pasting
it into notepad.

You will find it is of the form:

http://www2.threerivers.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/%5Cupload%5Cpublicaccess%5Cscan-809%20(19434).jpg

If you delete the bit :

publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/

so you are left with:

http://www2.threerivers.gov.uk/%5Cupload%5Cpublicaccess%5Cscan-809%20(19434).jpg

you will find you can view it.


-- 
Peter Parry.   
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:31:09 GMT, Ian Edwards  wrote:

> Trevor Jenkins wrote:
> > Anyone here used the Three Rivers council's web site to track planning
> > applications? ...
> > 
> > There is an option to view images (presumably scans) of the forms and
> > plans submitted with specific applications. However, it is broken.
> > Clicking on the view icons results in "404 Not found" errors being
> > returned. ...
> >
> > They also tell me that "the web site works best with Microsoft Internet
> > Explorer 5.5 or later", which really means "works only with ...". (I don't
> > use, won't use, can't use IE --- being a Linux/Mac user IE simply isn't an
> > option.)
> > 
> > If anyone has succeeded in viewing specific applications what browser did 
> > you use? Indeed has anyone (outside of the council) succeesfully viewed 
> > images for any application?
> 
> Works for me using either Internet Explorer or the Opera browser but not 
> with Firefox. 

Interesting that it works with Opera. The IE thing I suspected might be
the case but I wouldn't have been surprised to find that it too did not 
display anything either. 

> ... What's the PA number, I can always download and then 
> e-mail the 'jpg's to you if that would help.

Thanks but nah. There are too many of them, i.e. there's now more than one
application that could affect my property.

A smartarse within TRDC offered to do that for the one I complained of
first. But that doesn't solve the problem merely sidesteps it. Neither
does it solve the deeper problem of TRDC forcing IE on those who wish to
check planning applications.

> ... Be warned though, some of TRDC's scans are not too hot.  I had to
> ring them up and get them to re-do one as the writing on the plan was
> illegible.

At the moment I'd just settle for being able to view cruddy scans.

Regards, Trevor

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