One capability. Four points in the development lifecycle.
Planning intelligence is the discipline of extracting actionable insight from accumulated planning reasoning · officer reports, appeal decisions, committee papers, pre-application advice, planning histories. The same underlying capability serves four distinct moments in the lifecycle. Acquisition is live today. The next three pillars sit on the roadmap, in this order, for explicit reasons.
Extraction. Structure. Interpretation.
Planning reasoning already exists. It sits inside hundreds of thousands of officer reports, inspector decisions, committee minutes and pre-application letters · written in dense, idiosyncratic prose, scattered across hundreds of portals. Intelligence is what happens when that reasoning is extracted, normalised and made comparable. As understanding develops, certainty grows · and value follows.
- ExtractionEvery officer report, appeal decision and committee paper on the public record.
- StructureReasoning normalised across authorities so it becomes comparable, queryable, dated.
- InterpretationPatterns surfaced in plain language · facts and interpretation kept visibly separate.
Acquisition Intelligence
"Should we buy this site, and on what terms?"
The moment where understanding compounds fastest. A site is graded against the authority's actual decision pattern · not the agent's pitch deck · before capital is committed.
- Every officer report, refusal and appeal decision on the public record
- Site constraints (heritage, flood, TPO, Article 4, biodiversity)
- Comparable applications inside the precedent cluster
- Authority friction · committee behaviour · recurring objections
- Approval probability · evidence graded, confidence shown
- Site friction index and hidden risk register
- Refusal patterns matched to the scheme typology
- A board-ready brief · every claim sourced
Strategic Intelligence
"Which pathways have actually delivered the planning outcome we want?"
Outcomes are produced by sequences · not single applications. Strategic intelligence reconstructs the pathways · pre-app routes, design iterations, withdrawals, resubmissions, hybrid consents · that have successfully (and unsuccessfully) reached the target outcome.
- Full application histories across the site and its peers
- Pre-application and committee correspondence trails
- Withdrawal, resubmission and appeal sequencing
- Outcomes tied to design moves, not just descriptions
- Pathway library · sequences that produced consent in this typology
- Likely negotiation points and where they typically resolve
- Pre-app pursue / skip recommendation · with the underlying evidence
- Strongest approval strategy · ranked, sourced, defensible
Comparative Intelligence
"How does this pre-application advice sit inside the wider landscape of planning reasoning?"
Pre-application advice is read in isolation today. Comparative intelligence places it in context · against how the same authority, the same officer cohort and the same scheme typology have actually been reasoning over time · so applicants can judge how representative, conservative or outlying the advice really is.
- Pre-app advice the applicant uploads or paraphrases
- Officer reports written by the same authority in the same period
- Comparable schemes graded by typology, scale and constraints
- Appeal decisions that have tested the same reasoning lines
- Calibration: where the advice sits versus the authority's reasoning baseline
- Flags for advice that contradicts recent officer or inspector positions
- Counter-evidence the applicant can put on the table
- A structured response · cited, dated, ready to send
Diagnostic Intelligence
"We were refused. What does this actually mean, and what is the most rational next step?"
A refusal is rarely one thing. Diagnostic intelligence decomposes the reasons, weighs them against appeal precedent and the authority's revision behaviour, and recommends the most rational next step · revise, resubmit, appeal, or withdraw · with the evidence to support it.
- The decision notice and its individual reasons for refusal
- Inspector behaviour on equivalent reasons inside this authority
- Revision / resubmission outcomes for comparable schemes
- Officer language that signals which reasons are negotiable
- Reason-by-reason diagnosis · severity, fixability, appeal weight
- Appeal viability · graded against inspector precedent
- Revise / resubmit / appeal / withdraw recommendation · with rationale
- A defensible memo for the client or investment committee
We build the pillar that the data is ready to support.
Acquisition Intelligence ships today because the public record contains enough decision data to grade a site with defensible confidence. Strategic, Comparative and Diagnostic Intelligence require additional layers · pre-app correspondence, sequencing reconstruction, inspector behaviour clustering · that we are actively building.
We will not ship a pillar until the underlying intelligence is honest. A planning intelligence platform whose outputs cannot be sourced is a credibility liability · the exact problem this discipline exists to solve.