Planning

❓ Do I Need Permission?Popular First-step triage across permitted development, prior approval, lawful development certificate and full application routes. ✅ PD Rights Checker Check if your proposal falls within the General Permitted Development Order 2015 — Classes A-E for householders, plus commercial and agricultural classes. 🔄 Change of Use Use Classes Order analysis — check if your change is permitted, needs prior approval (e.g. Class MA office-to-resi), or requires full planning permission. 📄 Prior Approval GPDO prior approval route checker — Classes MA, O, Q, R, S, T, AA, AB, AC, ZA. Includes 56-day deemed approval rules and condition requirements. 📜 LDC Checker Lawful Development Certificate guidance — Section 191 (existing) and Section 192 (proposed). Covers 4-year and 10-year immunity rules and evidence requirements. 🏰 Listed Building Listed Building Consent requirements — significance assessment, curtilage structures, setting impact, heritage statement requirements, and Grade I/II*/II differences. 📊 EIA Screening Environmental Impact Assessment screening — Schedule 1 mandatory thresholds, Schedule 2 criteria, Schedule 3 sensitivity factors under the EIA Regulations 2017. 🌾 Green Belt NPPF Section 13 Green Belt test — five purposes of Green Belt, openness assessment, Very Special Circumstances test, and Grey Belt analysis. 🔄 Amendment Advisor Decide between S96A (non-material amendment), S73 (variation of condition), or fresh application when you need to change an approved scheme. 📢 Advertisement Consent Whether display of an advertisement needs express consent — deemed consent classes, area of special control, and illumination rules.

📜 NPPF Tracker Track NPPF changes and emerging national policy — Grey Belt provisions, BNG requirements, housing delivery test results, and policy direction alerts. 🔬 Policy Impact Scanner ⚔️ Policy Conflict DetectorHot 📑 Local Plan MonitorNew 🎯 Planning Risk Score Estimate your proposal's approval probability — combines site constraints, LPA behaviour, proposal type, and comparable decisions into a single risk score. 🎯 Pre-App Strategy Builder Comprehensive pre-application strategy — should you do pre-app? How to frame your proposal? AI-generated cover letter, refusal pattern analysis, and full project timeline. 🧠 Strategy Simulator Compare application routes — full planning vs LDC vs prior approval vs Section 73 vs PD. Scores each route on likelihood of success, cost, and timeline.

⚖️ S106 Negotiator Heads of terms, the three obligation tests, and negotiation strategy for Section 106 planning obligations and contributions. 🧱 Party Wall Assessment Screens whether the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 applies, the notice types required, and the timescales — a separate regime from planning. ⚠️ Enforcement RiskNew

📊 Appeal EstimatorTry this Estimate appeal costs, timelines, and success likelihood — procedure determination (written reps vs hearing vs inquiry), and costs award risk assessment. 🏗️ Grounds Builder Generate appeal grounds from refusal reasons — theme detection, policy counter-arguments, legal test analysis, and PINS checklist preparation. ⏱️ Appeal Timeline Calculate every deadline in your planning appeal — submission window, questionnaire, statements, site visit, and estimated decision date. 🛡️ Rebuttal Generator Paste objections and get policy-backed rebuttals. Classifies each as material or non-material, scores severity, and generates professional counter-arguments. 🔄 Resubmission Refusal-to-resubmission strategy — analyse what went wrong, identify targeted changes, check free resubmission eligibility, and build a changes matrix. 🔍 Objection Analyser Analyse neighbour objections — classify as material/non-material, score relevance to policy, identify emotional vs technical issues, and generate targeted rebuttals. 🔓 Officer Report Decoder Decode officer report language — extract recommendation signals, sentiment analysis, policy hooks, and identify where the officer's reasoning is strongest or weakest.

⚖️ Costs at AppealNew Build a costs application when the council has behaved unreasonably and put you to wasted expense. ⏳ Non-Determination AppealNew Work out if the council blew the determination clock and unlocked your right to appeal — with the key dates. 🏛️ Judicial Review ScreenerNew Triage the public-law grounds (illegality, irrationality, unfairness) for challenging an unlawful decision. 🔍 Ombudsman ComplaintNew Check eligibility and draft a maladministration complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman. 🧭 Member Probity CheckerNew Test whether a committee decision was properly made — predetermination, bias, interests, reasons.