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Permit Application Form
A permit application form should be impossible to submit incomplete. Most permit delay is not decision time - it's applications returned for a missing field.
For councils, agencies and public-sector teams.
The commonest reason for delay is a blank box
Authorities spend a large share of their permit workload returning applications: no dates, no location, no responsible person, no insurance. Each return costs the applicant weeks and the authority a letter.
Required fields fix most of it before it starts. This template makes the decision-critical items mandatory and puts the conditional questions behind the permit type, so a street-trading applicant isn't asked about scaffolding - and nobody submits a form that can only be rejected.
The same questions, in the same order, every time
Applications that arrive as emails and attachments are impossible to compare - one has the dates, another has the budget, none of them have both. You end up rebuilding each one by hand before you can make a decision.
A single form fixes that at the source: every application has the same fields, so reviewing is reading a table rather than reconstructing one.
Accessible to everyone, including the people without an app
A public form has to work for the resident on a six-year-old Android with 200 MB of data left, and for the one using a screen reader. That rules out most modern form builders, which need JavaScript to render a text box.
These pages are ordinary HTML with real labels and native controls: they work with assistive technology, keyboard only, and with scripting switched off entirely.
One link, and a written record
Share one link and every application lands in one place, timestamped, in the applicant's own words - which is exactly what you want if a decision is ever questioned.
Edit it like a document, publish like a link
Add questions, remove questions, change the order and the wording, set your accent colour. When you save, the form is live at its own address - share it by link, QR code or a button on your site, and read the answers in your dashboard.
What this template asks
- Applicant name
- Organisation, if applicable
- Email address
- Phone number
- Address
- What kind of permit?
- Location
- Start date
- End date
- Times, if not all day
- What are you applying to do?
- Vehicle or stall description
- Expected attendance
- Dimensions of the skip or scaffold
- Will any of these be affected?
- Responsible person on site - name and mobile
- Public liability insurance
- Insurer and cover level
- A risk assessment is available on request
- The information given is accurate and I am authorised to apply
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Questions
Can we collect the fee with the application?
Not through the form. Most authorities validate the application first and then invoice or send a payment link, which avoids refunding applications that were never eligible.
Can applicants attach documents?
Not yet - ask for a link, or state which documents to email in reply. The structured fields are what determine whether the application can be processed.
Can applicants attach a CV or document?
Not yet - file uploads are on the roadmap. Most people ask for a link (to a portfolio, a CV in cloud storage, or a profile) which works today and keeps the form fast.
Can I close applications on a deadline?
Yes. Close the form and anyone with the link sees a short closed page instead of the questions, so nobody fills in an application that can't be considered.
Can more than one person review them?
Yes - invite your team into the same account and they'll see the same responses. You can also export to a spreadsheet and score them wherever you like.
Is it accessible, and does it track people?
Forms use semantic HTML, real labels, keyboard-navigable native controls and work without JavaScript. No cookies, no analytics scripts and no IP logging - so there's no consent banner between a resident and a public service.
Publish your permit application form today
Start from this template and change anything you like. Free to begin.