Submission Intelligence

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Validation Pre-Flight Popular

Submission readiness audit — checks document completeness, cross-references local validation requirements, identifies missing reports, and spots common invalidation triggers.

When to use: Use before submitting any planning application. Catches the issues that cause invalidation: missing documents, wrong certificates, fee errors, and red line problems.

📜 National validation requirements, Local validation checklists

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Condition Predictor

Predict likely planning conditions based on your proposal type and constraints — pre-commencement vs pre-occupation, discharge timelines, and the six tests.

When to use: Use before submission to understand what conditions your approval might carry, so you can plan for discharge costs and timelines.

📜 NPPF policy DM6, NPPG Use of Conditions

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Statement Builder

Guided planning statement workflow — structured sections for site context, proposal description, policy compliance, design rationale, and planning balance.

When to use: Use when writing a Planning Statement or Planning Support Statement. Ensures you address the key policy areas officers will assess.

📜 NPPF structure, Local Plan policy framework

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Design & Access Statement

The "why our design works" document many councils require with an application. Guided wizard — 7 structured sections covering context analysis, design evolution, access strategy, amenity, and policy response.

When to use: Required for most applications except householder and changes of use. Check your LPA's validation checklist to confirm whether a DAS is needed.

📜 DMPO 2015 Article 9

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DAS Context Generator New

Auto-generate the location-based sections of a DAS from postcode alone — site context, planning history, constraints, policy framework, area character, and access.

When to use: Use before writing your DAS. Enter a postcode and get 4-5 pages of context research done automatically. Then add your design-specific sections.

📜 DMPO Article 9, NPPF design policy DP4

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Policy Compliance Matrix

Map your proposal against NPPF and local plan policies — auto-assessment with scored compliance matrix and advice on how to address gaps.

When to use: Use when preparing your planning statement to ensure every relevant policy is addressed. Officers use policy matrices in their assessment — beat them to it.

📜 NPPF, relevant Local Plan policies

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Pre-App Template

Structured pre-application enquiry template — site analysis, constraints summary, proposal description, specific questions for the officer, and supporting info.

When to use: Use before submitting a pre-application request. A well-structured pre-app gets better officer feedback and saves time in the formal application.

📜 NPPF policy DM1

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Cover Letter Generator New

Generate professional cover letters for planning applications, appeals, amendments, discharge of conditions, and pre-app enquiries.

When to use: Use when submitting any planning document to the LPA. A good cover letter summarises the submission and sets the right tone.

📜 Best practice

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Application Timeline New

Visual Gantt-style timeline showing validation, consultation, officer assessment, committee, and decision milestones with auto-calculated dates.

When to use: Use before submission to understand the statutory timescales and plan your project schedule around key milestones.

📜 DMPO 2015, Article 34 time limits

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Application Tracker New

Track your live planning application — timeline, key dates, consultation period, and estimated decision date with status alerts.

When to use: Use after submitting your application. Enter your reference and dates to see a live timeline with countdown to decision.

📜 DMPO 2015 Article 34

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Condition Tracker New

Paste your decision notice conditions — auto-classifies pre-commencement vs pre-occupation, identifies discharge requirements, and builds your compliance checklist.

When to use: Use immediately after receiving your approval. Identifies which conditions must be discharged before you can start work.

📜 NPPF policy DM6, Six Tests for Conditions

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Discharge Generator New

Generate a complete discharge of condition application — cover letter, condition schedule, supporting documents list, and fee calculation.

When to use: Use when you need to formally discharge conditions. Generates a professional application ready to submit to the LPA.

📜 Article 27 DMPO 2015, Discharge fee regulations

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Checklist Generator New

Generate a tailored submission checklist based on your application type, constraints, and LPA. Printable with tick boxes and progress tracking.

When to use: Use before submitting to ensure you have everything. Select your proposal type and constraints for a personalised checklist.

📜 National and local validation requirements

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Pre-Commencement Tracker New

Paste your decision notice conditions — auto-identifies pre-commencement, pre-occupation, and ongoing conditions. Creates a compliance checklist.

When to use: Use immediately after receiving approval. Starting work without discharging pre-commencement conditions invalidates your permission.

📜 NPPF policy DM6, Six Tests for Conditions

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Condition Drafter

Drafts compliant condition wording and a discharge strategy — pre-empt the conditions an officer is likely to impose, or plan how to discharge them.

When to use: Use when negotiating likely conditions before decision, or to plan discharge after consent.

📜 NPPF policy DM6, PPG Use of Planning Conditions

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Neighbour Letter

Drafts a pre-application neighbour notification letter to build local support and pre-empt objections.

When to use: Use before submission to engage adjoining owners proactively, especially on sensitive or contested schemes.

📜 Statement of Community Involvement, NPPF policy DM1

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Site Visit Brief

Prepares a brief for the case officer or inspector site visit — access, viewpoints, key features and the points you want noticed.

When to use: Use ahead of a case-officer or appeal site visit to make sure the decisive features are seen.

📜 PINS procedural guidance

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Party Wall Assessment

Screens whether the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 applies, the notice types required, and the timescales — a separate regime from planning.

When to use: Use for excavation or works near or on a shared boundary. Party Wall consent is separate from planning permission.

📜 Party Wall etc. Act 1996

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Party Wall Screening

Quick screen for whether the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 applies — notice requirements, surveyor costs and neighbour rights.

When to use: Use as a first check for works near a shared boundary; the Party Wall Assessment gives the fuller notice-by-notice picture.

📜 Party Wall etc. Act 1996

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Application Form Guide

Question-by-question guide to the planning application form — what each field means and the answers that cause validation problems.

When to use: Use while completing the application form to avoid the common answers that trigger invalidation.

📜 DMPO 2015, national validation requirements

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Timeline Generator

Generate a complete timeline for your application — statutory deadlines, consultation periods, committee dates, determination targets and appeal windows.

When to use: Use at submission to plan the whole determination period, or mid-application to see what deadline comes next.

📜 DMPO 2015 determination periods

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Pre-Commencement Condition Checker

Check which conditions must be discharged before works start — and which would put the whole permission at risk if breached.

When to use: Use after permission is granted, before any works begin on site. Complements the Pre-Commencement Tracker.

📜 TCPA 1990 s.74A, condition discharge procedure

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Auto-Application (AI)

Describe what you want to build and the AI runs the workflow — constraints, permission route, fee, council and officer profile, similar refusals and appeal stats.

When to use: Use at the very start of a case to have the groundwork assembled automatically before you refine it tool by tool.

📜 Multiple — orchestrates the other tools

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Case Import

Import a previously exported case file and recreate the case — the counterpart to Case Export.

When to use: Use to restore a case from an export, or to move a case between accounts.

📜 Reference

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Case Timeline & Uploads

Per-case timeline of documents and communications — upload files and track correspondence against the case record.

When to use: Use to keep a dated record of everything sent to and received from the LPA on a case.