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Site Appraisals
Drop a pin, draw the red line, and the site builds itself: constraints, the appeals around it, a branded PDF at the end. Planning history imports from the register and the app structures it. Minutes to a checked picture of a site, not hours searching different websites.
Constraints checked
Flood, heritage, ecology and priority habitats, green belt, agricultural land grade, nutrient neutrality and more, from the official sources, each shown with its origin.
Planning history without retyping
Import from an LPA register or a screenshot; the app reads and structures it.
Geotagged photos
Where you stood and what you saw, plotted against the boundary, straight into the appraisal.
Appeals around the site
Every located decision within your radius, from every year on record, letter a tap away.
Documents with the site
Decision notices, drawings and correspondence kept against the site, synced to every device.
The branded PDF
The whole site in one client-ready document, under your practice branding.
Watch it done
A site set up in about a minute
Search the postcode, draw the red line, and the constraints, the plan position and the appeals around the site follow. Unedited, apart from the cursor.
Start on site, on iPhone
Standing on a site? Start it where you stand.
Tap New Site, then Use my location, and the phone does the rest: the pin, postcode and authority come from where you are standing. Add your photographs to the record there and then. It is waiting at your desk to be worked up properly.
- Drop a pin from GPS, or search an address
- Postcode and authority resolved for you
- A first read of the constraints on the spot
- Finish the boundary later on the iPad or Mac
Town Planner Pro
On iPhone
The checks
Each constraint, carded with its evidence
A map, the finding, and a one-tap link to the official source it came from.
Transport
The Framework's transport tests, measured on the site
The new NPPF asks precise questions of a site: is it within 800 metres of a station, does the service meet the frequency test, and which density expectation follows. The card answers each limb with measured figures, and states the policies engaged as considerations, not a verdict.
- Station catchment at 800 metres, the service-frequency test measured from timetables: overall and busiest direction
- Bus stops and weekday frequencies within 400m and 800m, from Bus Open Data
- The density expectation that follows, stated with the policy it comes from
- In London, TfL’s public transport accessibility level (PTAL) across the red line: the range of bands, the access index and what makes it up
- Travel to work area position, National Cycle Network routes, nearest stations and stops with distances
Habitat and farmland
Priority habitat and land quality, with their limits stated
Inspectors weigh both, in greenfield and solar cases especially. Neither national dataset is a survey, so the card says what each one shows and what it does not: the evidence to commission is as clear as the finding.
- Priority habitat on Natural England’s inventory: whether the red line touches it and which habitats, or the nearest within 250 metres
- The predicted agricultural land grade across the red line, from Defra’s Predictive Agricultural Land Classification map, and whether it includes best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a)
- Both stated as indications: an ecological survey and a detailed land classification survey settle what is on the site
- The predicted grades shaded on the map in Defra’s own colours, one tick away
London
London sites, measured the way the London Plan measures them
For a site in Greater London the appraisal adds the measures London decisions turn on, from Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, each with the London Plan policy it engages. The borough’s adopted policies map remains the final word, and the card says so.
- PTAL across the red line: the band, or the range of bands, for every 100 metre square the site touches, with the access index
- Metropolitan Open Land and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation, alongside the green belt and the other landscape designations
- A London Plan card: site allocations from the borough’s plan, the Central Activities Zone, Opportunity Areas, town centres, strategic and local industrial land, Air Quality Focus Areas, safeguarded wharves, the Thames Policy Area and the Mayoral CIL band, with the nearest where the site is outside them
- Protected vistas from the London View Management Framework in the Heritage card, and Critical Drainage Areas in the Flooding card
- All of it on the map and in the PDF, with the London Plan designations counted apart from the constraints, so a town centre site does not read as a problem
Appeals around the site
What have Inspectors decided around here?
Pick a radius and every located decision on record appears, from every year, nearest first, with outcome, distance and the letter a tap away wherever one was published. Precedent as a constraint layer.
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