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⚖️ Appeal Pack Builder

Generate a complete PINS appeal pack — main statement, forensic schedule, comparator bundle, officer engagement annex, costs application, conditions, and hearing speech — drafted from your refusal documents, communications, and evidence. Modelled on the Sandygate exemplar.

8Documents per pack

5-10kWords per pack

~3minTo generate

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🎯 Appeal-strength radar — which refusal grounds are most overturned at appeal

From PINS appeal text in our mined corpus — scope: national. Overturn rate = % of appeals against a refusal citing this theme that were ALLOWED. The higher the rate, the more vulnerable the LPA's position when this theme is the refusal ground. Use this to decide which limbs of your refusal to attack hardest in your appeal statement.

Refusal theme	Appeals sampled	Overturn rate	Appeal-attack strength
Flood	121	36.4%	⭐⭐⭐ STRONG — appeal aggressively	🏆 See winning args →
Amenity	500	32%	⭐⭐ MODERATE — appeal worth running	🏆 See winning args →
Heritage	579	29%	⭐⭐ MODERATE — appeal worth running	🏆 See winning args →
Ecology	241	29%	⭐⭐ MODERATE — appeal worth running	🏆 See winning args →
Design	1690	28.8%	⭐⭐ MODERATE — appeal worth running	🏆 See winning args →
Highways	1031	28.6%	⭐⭐ MODERATE — appeal worth running	🏆 See winning args →
Overdev	195	25.6%	⭐⭐ MODERATE — appeal worth running	🏆 See winning args →
Green Belt	366	23%	⭐ WEAK — refusal usually sticks	🏆 See winning args →

Sample size = number of PINS appeals where this theme was cited as part of the refusal AND we detected the outcome (Allowed/Dismissed). Compounds as PINS backfill grows.

📜 Per-policy radar — which specific policies cited in refusals get overturned most

Drill-down companion to the theme radar above. Read your refusal notice, find the specific policies cited (e.g. "fails to accord with Policy CS15"), then match them here. Themes told you the general battleground; policies tell you the specific bullet to fire.

🎯 Top 5 strongest — attack these citations

Policy	Sample	Overturn	Read
Policy P1	35	65.7%	⭐⭐⭐ Strong — attack this citation
Policy H1	56	53.6%	⭐⭐⭐ Strong — attack this citation
Policy DM01	55	47.3%	⭐⭐⭐ Strong — attack this citation
s.66	87	42.5%	⭐⭐⭐ Strong — attack this citation
Policy GB1	31	38.7%	⭐⭐ Worth challenging

🛑 Bottom 5 — if your refusal cites these, resubmission beats appeal

Policy	Sample	Overturn	Read
Policy LP2	44	4.5%	🛑 NEVER overturned — resubmit, don't appeal
para 196 of the National Planning Policy Framework	38	5.3%	🛑 NEVER overturned — resubmit, don't appeal
Policy CS9	33	6.1%	🛑 NEVER overturned — resubmit, don't appeal
Policy CP1	36	8.3%	🛑 NEVER overturned — resubmit, don't appeal
Policy DM2	46	8.7%	🛑 NEVER overturned — resubmit, don't appeal

How to use: Open your decision notice. For each policy the officer cited as a refusal reason, look it up in either table. Combine with the theme radar above for the complete picture of where your appeal grounds are strongest.

Quick grounds tool (no case required, no AI) →

Paste a refusal reason and get a deterministic grounds analysis with legal-test, procedure recommendation, and evidence checklist. Useful if you don't have a case in PlanningCore yet — but for a full pack, sign in and use the engine above.

Appeal Type

LPA

Application Ref

Refusal Reason (paste verbatim)

About this tool: Grounds Builder

Generate appeal grounds from refusal reasons — theme detection, policy counter-arguments, legal test analysis, and PINS checklist preparation.

When to use it

Use when drafting your appeal statement. Takes each refusal reason and helps you build a structured rebuttal with policy and precedent support.

Policy and guidance it draws on

TCPA Section 78, NPPF decision-making framework

Part of Appeal Intelligence

Use these tools after a refusal or when preparing to challenge a decision. The appeal estimator helps you decide whether to appeal or resubmit. The grounds builder turns your refusal reasons into structured appeal arguments with supporting precedent.