The simple answer: consultants spend a remarkable amount of the working week just pulling information together. The constraints sit in one place, the planning history in another, the appeals somewhere else again, and the development plan behind it all somewhere else entirely.

The stakes are real, too. Getting planning permission is expensive, and behind every application sits someone's ambition: months of time, energy and thought given to a scheme. However much effort lies behind it, the decision maker can only weigh what is put in front of them, and a refusal can turn on a single missing piece of the picture. With the material scattered across so many sources, completeness is hard-won for even the most careful professional. This is about getting the whole picture into the hands of the people putting the application together.

Town Planner Pro brings that work into one system, so the time goes into the judgement rather than the gathering. Better information, assembled properly, means better decision making, and better decisions make stronger applications.

I have spent over twenty-five years getting planning permission for people. I built the tool I always wanted on site and at the desk, for people who work hard at this all week. If it makes that work a bit easier and a bit more consistent, it has done its job.

Pierre Dowsett MRTPI, Founder