For local planning authorities
Reasoning that holds.
Search appeal decisions nationally. See how your planning balance has been viewed by inspectors, review consistency of policy interpretation and compare how similar types of applications have fared in your local authority and nationally.
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Marchfield District Council
England31% allow rate · 214 appeals decided · 5 years
Local plan policies · Allow rate when engaged
Cases citing this policy
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How you'd use it
Each appeal decision is a ruling on whether a planning application has been considered appropriately by the local authority and whether your authority's interpretation of policy is working. Three places that matter:
DECIDING PLANNING BALANCE & APPROACHES
Test reasons before they're tested.
Checking how policy has been interpreted at a national scale gives you more confidence as you develop your planning responses. Check precedents quickly when considering a proposal, writing your decision report or before a report goes to committee. Are you looking at all the available data?
VERIFY EACH POINT
All reasoning, direct from the original source.
Interpretation and references you can rely on. All documents and data can be traced directly to the original appeal documents, so you can check yourself. Our platform is built with compliance to the Inspectorate's guidance on AI in mind.
POLICY OR PLAN REVIEW
Your feedback tool.
Rapid review of local and national policy can help inform plan or policy reviews, other guidance documents or strategic planning. How do immediate or wider constraints unlock or hinder future approaches in your area? We can also provide bespoke reporting or datasets to help you understand the impact of future planning.
Other features include: live case tracking - receive notification so you and your team are the first to know the most current interpretation. Team licences - allow for multiple log ins to view search history, tracked cases and share information. This can help build consistency in interpretation.
What you get, and what you don't.
We're not planning consultants. We don't write your statement, weigh your case, or give advice. We put the evidence in front of you: the cases, the inspector's reasoning, and patterns across the whole dataset that no manual search would surface. You draw the conclusions. The report is yours.
Evidence based, transparent information.
Our tools help you find key information that no manual search would surface. Whether you need datasets, statistics on policy performance at appeal or simply need to find strong cases - we can help you build stronger and more confident planning interpretation. All sources are easy to cite and can be checked against the original documentation, no reliance on AI interpretation, no hidden methodology.
Statutory planning is changing fast, we're faster.
In a fast-changing world we've built the system to comply with the Planning Inspectorate's guidance on AI. Search cases quickly and gain deeper insight - this leaves you more time to consider the planning balance and helps your caseload.
Appeal Intelligence
The feedback loop plan-making never had.
One case can tell you what happened once. Looking at data drawn from a national scale can give you 'real time' feedback to how policies and reasoning are performing. MHCLG publishes authority performance quarterly, and the quality measure is the share of decisions allowed at appeal. We can provide insight and analysis at any time.
Where your authority stands.
Discover your authority's allow rate and timescales, by case type, alongside the national average.
Which policies hold up?
How do each of your local plan policies perform when engaged at appeal? Are your interpretations or definitions reliable? Our insight can contribute evidence for plan review, strategic allocation, local plans or supplementary documents. Understand before the examination asks, costs are awarded or determination timescales increase.
Read the national picture.
Are you looking at all the available data? How do NPPF paragraphs or local policy shape outcomes? Filter by procedure, case type or provide your own bespoke. Find the right context for your own decision making.
Our platform is built on 1.1M local plan policy citations and 2.9M individual points that identify specific inspector reasoning.
Two ways to get there
Some questions are searchable, others might need bespoke analysis. Get in touch today to see how we can help.
Included with your plan
Use the insights.
Search the record, track live appeals, share results and check policy performance yourself. Team plans with named seats included, MFA, clear invoicing and purchase order information.
Bespoke analysis
A read on your record.
We can analyse data directly obtained from the Planning Inspectorate. We can provide anything from a simple group of similar case references for a committee hearing to a statistical analysis of specific local or national policy interpretation (tailored to your area or a site). Other use cases include understanding if the inspector has consistently awarded costs in a particular case type or procedure or understanding the 'live' performance of your local authority. We can also provide monthly, or quarterly findings - ahead of PINS. You set the questions, we help give you better answers.
Data you can rely on.
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