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Three search modes, one corpus. Ask a planning question in plain English (AI), browse 107,018 indexed documents (NPPF, local plans, case law), or find 234,848 real applications similar to yours.

107,018 library docs 106,005 PINS appeal decisions 234,848 planning applications 12,162 mined refusal patterns
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📊 Data sources & freshness
  • lib_documents corpus (updated Re-indexed on ingest, last full pass May 2026)
    58,754 indexed documents: NPPF, local plan SPDs, PINS appeal decisions, planning case law, NPPG.
  • Smart Search ranking
    Keyword + section weight + recency. Pure SQL — no vector embedding (yet).
  • Ask PlanningCore
    AI answer is grounded against the top-15 lib_documents hits for your query. Citations are real document IDs.
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