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Drop in a UK postcode and we cross-check 15 statutory layers — conservation areas, listed buildings, flood zones, Article 4, TPOs, green belt and more — straight from live council data. No card, no account, no waiting.
Free instant report · No card · No account · 361 UK local planning authorities
AI-powered planning guidance
Conservation Areas. Listed Buildings. Article 4 directions. Tree Preservation Orders. Green Belt designations. Plus ten more — all read live from your council's planning portal.
We cover 361 local planning authorities across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland — sources cited on every flag.
How Planning Handbook readers use it
Free postcode preview, paid PDF, or council-ready document.
Same live planning data underneath each product. The price reflects how much of the analysis we hand you finished.
Pick the one that matches the question you're trying to answer about a site — and follow through to the PlanningConsult page for full detail.
The fastest way to find out whether a postcode sits in a Conservation Area, has a TPO, falls inside a flood zone or carries an Article 4 direction. Headline summary on screen; no account, no card.
Pays for the analysis layer on top of the data: written commentary on every flag, a stated approval-likelihood score, and a sharable PDF your architect or planning consultant can pick up cold.
A formal four-part document grounded in your authority's adopted local plan. Editable DOCX and PDF, two free regenerations within fourteen days, written in the register a determining officer expects.
Drop in the postcode. Fifteen statutory layers are screened against the live planning data register, and a one-page headline appears on screen — no checkout, no signup, no waiting list.
If the preview is informative, the upgrade adds the bit that actually takes a planner time to do: written commentary against each constraint, a likelihood score, and footnoted sources next to every claim.
The PDF and its sharable link travel well — most homeowners forward both to whoever is drawing the plans, so the conversation starts with the same picture of the site.
The draft is structured the way a determining officer reads a submission — four numbered sections, each anchored to the live local plan for the authority that will be deciding the application.
Address, designations, and the constraint findings — set out before the proposal is even introduced, so the rest of the document is read against the right backdrop.
A neutral description of what is being applied for, written in the register the planning authority uses rather than the language of an estate-agent brochure.
The heart of the document. Cited paragraph-by-paragraph against the adopted local plan policies the scheme actually triggers — for example Lewisham DM30 / LP24 — pulled from planning.data.gov.uk so the references are the ones in force on the day.
A reasoned closing section that connects the proposal back to the policy framework. Often the part an officer skims first.
PlanningConsult drafts are intended to support a submission, not to replace regulated advice. Listed buildings, conservation areas with significant impact, and contested change-of-use applications should still be reviewed by an RTPI-accredited consultant.
For the trade
The same engine, on a subscription, with credits that redeem across reports and statements.
Bulk-screen a CSV of sites overnight, white-label the PDFs on the Agency tier, and route warm homeowner leads in your patch straight to your inbox.
Drafting a planning statement
Drop in a Westminster postcode and the engine drafts the planning statement end to end — site and context, proposal, policy assessment, conclusion. Heritage triggers are surfaced and woven into the narrative. NPPF s.66 and s.72 are engaged where the scheme warrants. The Article 4 basement direction is scope-checked out. Class A permitted development is excluded with the reasoning written in.
What lands in your editor is a structured DOCX — citations in place, sections numbered the way determining officers read them. Your time goes on the judgement calls and the local knowledge; the policy-stitching is already done.
Monthly credits, rolling allowance, top-up packs on every plan, cancellation any month. One credit buys one LPA report; three credits buy a planning statement.
Fifteen credits a month, rolling up to thirty. One seat. Roughly the equivalent of £285 of one-off reports — appropriate for a sole practitioner or a small architectural practice running a handful of feasibilities a week.
Fifty credits a month, rolling up to a hundred. Three seats, priority email support, and inbound homeowner-lead alerts in the postcodes you cover. Sized for a busier practice that screens portfolios of sites weekly.
A hundred-and-sixty credits a month, rolling up to three-hundred-and-twenty. Unlimited seats, named account manager, and PDF export under your firm's own branding rather than ours. Built for planning consultancies handing finished documents to clients.
Top-up packs sit alongside every plan when monthly credits run out: 5 credits £25 · 15 credits £55 · 60 credits £179.
AI-powered constraint checks for 361 UK local planning authorities. Sources cited on every flag.
