The Highland Council is to launch an improved version of its digital services for those submitting building standards applications.

The eBuilding Standards Service, which will be available from Wednesday 24 August, will enable customers to submit all Building Standards applications to the Highland Council electronically in the same way customers can already make planning applications electronically using ePlanning.

Councillor Audrey Sinclair, Chair of the Council's Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee explained: "This is an exciting new service, which will allow customers to submit applications to us 24 hours a day, and in so doing help them save time, printing and postage costs.


"Customers will also be able to submit follow up information electronically and share their applications with other parties using the new portal.

"If needs be, customers will be still be able to make paper applications (as with ePlanning) but these should be submitted to the Council's eProcessing Centre at Council Headquarters.

"Given the successful uptake of the ePlanning Portal since its introduction in 2009, we expect the eBuildingStandards.scot Portal to be just as popular and would very much encourage customers to make use of this new online service."

The Service is a new addition to Scottish Government's eDevelopment.scot suite of online Services which already includes ePlanning.scot.

To access the new eBuildingStandards.scot Service, customers will need to create an account on eDevelopment.scot – both the ePlanning and eBuilding Standards Portals will both be accessible from eDevelopment.scot with one set of login details.

If customers already have an ePlanning.scot account and login details, they can use those details to access the new portal when it goes live.

(JP/CD)