June 2025: Enabled permanent test endpoints in the training environment for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office by turning on the enable_test_endpoints flag (commit 052a641ff0910724c3d72914027c02b353bb12c7). This improves testing throughput, QA readiness, and development velocity without impacting production.

May 2025 highlights for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Achieved meaningful business value through API/template improvements, UI reliability fixes, and data hygiene enhancements. Key deliverables included introducing Nunjucks templating for notifications, removing a legacy temporary migration table, and enhancing S78 templates and estimates; plus fixes for favicon routing, decision row visibility, and FO environment URL handling in email templates. Data integrity and test-data hygiene were improved via seeding cleanups and test-data deletion flows, reducing stale data and ensuring accurate communications.

April 2025 highlights: Delivered new capabilities for appeals processing, reliability improvements, and expanded workflow coverage. Key features include a PDF Generation Service API (Docker container, Puppeteer-based HTML-to-PDF), INQUIRY procedure support, a Listed Buildings dataset with endpoints, and a configurable session timeout across environments. Additional improvements include the S20 case type behind a feature flag, web asset stability fixes, appeal notifications logging, and performance/data integrity upgrades (SQL indexing and Prisma ORM upgrade). Also reinforced CI/CD and dependencies (Node.js upgrades, merge-queue coverage adjustments, and e2e/test fixes). These changes enable automated document generation, broader case handling, improved data governance, and faster, more reliable releases.

March 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Stabilized API data flows, modernized runtime and deployment pipelines, and advanced production-readiness features. Delivered critical fixes to data broadcasting and field handling, aligned data models and event queries, and moved maintenance tasks into robust scheduled jobs, while upgrading runtime environments and CI/CD tooling to enable safer feature rollouts.

February 2025 performance summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Delivered a comprehensive data-model upgrade to v1.9.x across Appeals and API, introduced an affectsListedBuilding flag, stabilized core API and data structures, expanded end-to-end test coverage for the S78 journey and postcode workflows, and advanced maintenance/QA capabilities. Migrations progressed through 1.9.4 to 1.9.17 with related import/DB changes; fixes included timetable structure, attachments retrieval, null procedure handling, and start case template IDs, plus representation mapping and event update type case mismatch resolutions. Enabled test_endpoints, improved public web access over PE, and resolved reps auditing entries. Overall impact: improved data integrity, faster release cycles, and stronger validation for UI/decision workflows.

January 2025 (Month: 2025-01) focused on delivering robust rendering, stable test data, scalable mapping, and expanded broadcasting capabilities across Appeals systems. Key changes include: LPAQ refactor and related rendering improvements; tests stabilized with static GUIDs in mocks; alignment of appellant case handling with the generic mapping; fixes to AV status rendering in decision letters; split/invalid decision flow fixes; ensuring dev descriptions for all case types; enabling service bus topic/subscriptions for representatives; LPA list updates to production; adoption of data-model 1.9.6 for reps; broadcasting improvements for S78 appeals and representation; support for imports and data seeds; and S78 data import. Collectively these changes improve reliability, speed to value for end users, and prepare the platform for scale in 2025 (especially representation and appeals flows).

December 2024 (2024-12) monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Focused on delivering reliable data handling for appeals and strengthening test coverage, while expanding data representation capacity and improving import reliability. Key features include API/UI enhancements for appeals, seed data reliability improvements, and a database schema expansion, plus an import utility to handle duplicate document filenames. These efforts improved data integrity, testing reliability, and scalability of the appeals back-office, enabling safer data operations and more robust user flows.

November 2024 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Focused on stabilizing core appeals workflows, expanding data capabilities, and strengthening deployment and security tooling. Delivered targeted features and critical fixes across web and appeals modules, updated data models, and improved release reliability to enable faster processing, better security, and stronger auditability. Key outcomes include improved case management, more robust timetabling, safer deployment practices, and enhanced data export capabilities.

Month: 2024-10 — Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office. Delivered key features and fixes that strengthen data integrity, governance, and user experience, enabling faster, more reliable decision-making. Highlights include LPA Questionnaire Environmental and Community Impact Fields with accompanying DB migration and API/frontend logic; EIA document UI copy/headings improvements; S78 timetable updates with tests; back-office data model upgrade to 1.9.2; permissions and UI status messaging enhancements; plus data hygiene improvements and several bug fixes to improve data consistency and navigation.