Does SPEAR or the council store data and application documents?
SPEAR holds copies of data for efficiency reasons. Ownership and responsibility for the application still rests with the council and relevant stakeholder. They are each required to maintain their own records for an application as they currently do. • Will application fees be paid direct to council? SPEAR does not handle payments of any sort but is able to provide links to an external council payment website or gateway and allows invoices and payments to be recorded within SPEAR. Current payment methods used by councils will remain available. • What about past applications? Where will that data be stored? Only applications that start and end in SPEAR will be included in the system. There will not be a provision to store historical applications. • Who will be able to view objections? Objections made through SPEAR will be viewable by council and other parties for a particular application. • Has the Information Privacy Act 2000 been taken into consideration? Yes. The provisions of the Info
