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⚡ Quick Site CheckPopular One-box site check — constraints, planning history and risk at a glance from a postcode. 🔭 Interactive Explorer Explore planning data interactively — browse the map, applications and intelligence in one place. 🔎 Smart Search Ask a planning question in plain English, search 58k+ library docs, or find similar applications. 🗂️ Application Search18K+ Search 18,000+ real planning applications by location, type and decision. 🔍 Precedent Finder Find approved and refused applications similar to yours nearby. Search by postcode, proposal type, and keywords to build a precedent schedule for your planning statement. 📄 Site ReportTry this Generate a full site intelligence report — constraints, history and context in one document. 📍 Right Site Finder Find sites that match your development brief and planning criteria.

🏆 LPA Leaderboard League table of Local Planning Authorities by approval rate and speed. 📊 LPA Profile Deep-dive authority analysis — approval rates by type, refusal reason clustering, appeal overturn rates, average decision times, and strictness rankings. ⚖️ Appeal Overturn RatesNew feature How often each LPA is overturned at appeal — the strength of their refusals. 🏗️ Housing PressureNew Housing Delivery Test standing — how much an LPA is under pressure to grant housing. 🏘️ Housing Supply 5-year housing land supply calculator — Sedgefield method, Housing Delivery Test results, tilted balance trigger analysis, and Footnote 7 implications. 🔀 LPA Comparison Compare two or more authorities side by side on the metrics that matter. 🕵️ Case Officer Intel Individual case officer profiling — approval rates, decision speed, refusal patterns, appeal overturn rates, and tailored submission strategy advice. 👥 Officer Leaderboard League table of case officers by caseload and decision outcomes. 📊 Committee vs Delegated Data-driven analysis of committee vs delegated decision patterns — approval rates by route, application type breakdown, yearly trends, and committee risk calculator. 🏛️ Committee Predictor Predict whether your application will be delegated or called to committee — political sensitivity factors, ward member triggers, and objection thresholds. 📣 Consultation Monitor Track live consultations and neighbour responses as they come in. 🔓 FOI Intelligence Mine published Freedom of Information disclosures for planning intelligence. 🗓️ Submission Timing The best time to submit, based on validation backlogs and decision cadence. 🗺️ Ward IntelligenceNew Ward-level approval rates, member sensitivities and local political context. 📈 Momentum MapNew Where development is accelerating — heat-mapped application momentum.

🚧 ConstraintsPopular Composite constraint scoring — checks Green Belt, heritage, ecology, flood, Article 4, settlement boundaries, and other designation overlaps in one pass. 🌊 Flood Risk Check flood zone classification, determine Sequential and Exception Test requirements, SuDS strategy, and required documentation. ⚗️ Contamination Phase 1 preliminary risk assessment — source-pathway-receptor analysis, contaminant identification, and investigation requirements per CLR11/BS 10175. 🪨 Ground Stability Coal Authority referral check, shrink-swell clay risk, landslip assessment, and mining legacy screening. 🦎 Ecology EcIA methodology screening — habitat assessment, protected species triggers (bats, newts, badgers, reptiles), and BNG calculation requirements. 🌿 BNG Calculator Biodiversity Net Gain assessment using DEFRA Metric 4.0 — habitat units, 10% mandatory gain, statutory credit costs, and exemption checking. 🌳 Trees BS 5837:2012 tree categorisation (A/B/C/U), Root Protection Area calculation, TPO checking, and replanting ratio guidance. 🏛️ Heritage Heritage Impact Assessment wizard — significance assessment, impact analysis, harm level determination, and public benefit test under NPPF paragraphs 199-208. ⛏️ Archaeology Archaeological risk screening — HER records check, period assessment, investigation requirements, and desk-based assessment triggers. 🏞️ Landscape GLVIA3 landscape and visual impact methodology — character assessment, magnitude scoring, AONB/National Landscape and Green Belt sensitivity. 🏙️ Townscape & Visual GLVIA3 townscape and visual impact assessment — sensitivity/magnitude matrix, per-viewpoint analysis, materials compatibility, height-to-context ratio, and generated assessment text. 🔊 Noise BS 4142 and BS 8233 noise screening — industrial/commercial source assessment, ProPG residential guidance, and character corrections. 💨 Air Quality IAQM/EPUK screening for NO₂ and PM2.5 exposure, DEFRA damage costs, AQMA context, construction dust risk, and mitigation requirements. 🚗 Transport Multi-modal transport analysis — trip generation, accessibility scoring, highway safety, parking demand, and Travel Plan requirements. 📏 Highways Sight Lines Visibility splay calculator — X/Y sight-line distances for a new or altered access using Manual for Streets / DMRB stopping-sight-distance methodology.

🚫 Refusal Patterns The recurring reasons applications like yours get refused. ❌ Refusal Analyser Analyse refusal patterns by LPA — most common refusal reasons, policy hooks used, and how to counter each one. 📚 Refusal Library Searchable library of refusal reason wording — semantically clustered by theme, LPA, and keyword. Includes counter-arguments and successful appeal references. 🔁 Similar Refusals Refused schemes most similar to yours — learn before you submit. 🏅 Winning Arguments The arguments that have actually won appeals for comparable schemes. 🧠 Pattern Browser Browse mined decision patterns across thousands of cases. ⚖️ Inspector View See your proposal through an inspector's eyes — constraint-aware analysis of what issues they'd raise, what weight they'd give each factor, and how the planning balance falls. 🧑‍⚖️ Inspector Simulator AI-powered refusal-to-appeal simulator — paste your refusal reasons and get an inspector-style assessment with precedent citations, planning balance analysis, and appeal success probability.