'No internet, no rights': Wigan Council's digital-first policy blasted as 'discriminatory'
click on this link, enter your email address, and select 'MyWigan News'.Development manager David Proctor explained why the 'digital-first' approach was proposed for reports of potential planning breaches, stressing that it will not affect the process by which people can comment on planning applications.He said the department deals with 30 to 40 reports of potential planning breaches each month and around 40 pc of those require officers to obtain more information before they can establish whether it should be investigated.By 'frontloading' the gathering of this information through an online form, a quicker turnaround from report to investigation could be achieved, he said.Amanda Litherland, a business partner within the digital services