This is an example of a well organsed submission prepared by Geoff Cameron. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/53eci6tzhlmgh9d/AACcUw4tERXEJ3LF0J5zjOXpa?dl=0

The admin team at the NEV Co-Operative have set up individual Dropbox NextCloud folders for each lot in Stage 1 of our development. The folders are part of the Co-operative's Dropbox Business account which is a cloud based Nextcloud file storage service.  If you are a  A new Lot Owner you will soon receive receives an invitation to share the Dropbox NextCloud folder set up for your their lot. The invite will be sent to you and to the Sustainable Design Appraiser assigned to your lot.  Your Dropbox NextCloud folder will also be is accessible to the Co-Operative's Admin Team and to NEV's Building Review Panel. It will not be shared with any other lot owner, however, once you accept the invitation you can elect to share your Dropbox Nextcloud folder with anyone you choose - for example your designer or your builder.  You can also choose to synchronise the folder with your computer which allows desktop access to your Dropbox design files.Further information on joining, sharing and synchronising Dropbox folders are provided be the links below:

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After you have joined DropBox NextCloud the NEV lot folder will be visible each time you log into your DropBox account online. You can also link to your online DropBox lot folder through the Wiki. Your Sustainable Design Appraiser can show you how

You will submit your designs for NEV approval by uploading your design files to your Dropbox folder called BRP Submission folder.  You can do this yourself or you can share your Dropbox folder with your designer and ask them to do it on your behalf.

Design files can be uploaded progressively for each Approval Step as you arrive at that step in your Approval Pathway. NEV's Design Approval Checklist lists each document needed for each Approval Step.  

After you have uploaded a document, or documents, to your Dropbox folder you are asked to tick it off from the list provided in the Design Approval Checklist the document(s) you have just submitted and email the checklist to buildingreviewpanel@nararaecovillage.com. Your email will be forwarded to the Sustainable Design Appraiser (SDA) assigned to you and your SDA will send you an email in response confirming that your submission has been receivedfile this in your submission folder.

For assistance templates, forms and reports that you can download and use for both your statutory approvals and  your NEV Building Standard approvals are available on the NEV Wiki at Building Approvals - Useful Reports and Templates.  Your SDA can advise what resources are available at this location.

When your submission has been reviewed and endorsed your SDA will add an approval date to the appropriate box in the Completion Table below , refer Table 2: Approval Status .  If table below. If your assessor has any queries about your submission they will contact you by phone or email using the contact details provided with your NEV Wiki account profile.