Planning Policy
Planning Policy / How it works

From postcode to verified report

While your report builds, the progress you watch is the real work happening — live data reads, plan ingestion, verification — never a loading bar for show. Here is the whole pipeline, step by step.

01

You tell us the address and the project

A postcode and one sentence — “dig out the basement for a bedroom and a lightwell”. That sentence is read into a structured understanding of the project: its type, its scale, what to search for nearby.

02

We read the official record for your property

The national planning data index is queried live for every designation intersecting your address: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, listed buildings, flood zones, Green Belt, protected trees and more. Each finding carries its official record link.

03

The policy hierarchy is assembled for your project

National policy (the NPPF and permitted development guidance), strategic policy where it exists (the London Plan for the 33 boroughs), and your council’s adopted Local Plan — the policies that bear on your project are selected and quoted verbatim.

04

Real decisions near you are analysed

On the Pro report, decided applications of your project type within a kilometre are pulled from council registers — approved and refused, each linking to the real case file — and read into an evidence-based view of how your council treats schemes like yours.

05

Every quote passes the gate

Before the report renders, deterministic software checks every policy quote character-for-character against the stored official text. Quotes that fail are replaced with verified extracts and the failure logged. This step is code, not AI — by design.

06

Your report arrives in minutes

Five sections in plain English: your site at a glance, what applies, potential blockers, things to consider, and (Pro) the nearby evidence. Yours to keep, print, and verify — every claim links to its source.

The proof

Don’t take the description on trust

Read a complete example for each of the five most common projects — real postcodes, live designations, verified quotes, real council case links.

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