Simple, professional pricing

Every account starts with a 14-day free trial and no payment card is needed. During the trial you can create up to 5 site appraisals in total (archiving or deleting one does not free a slot) and use casework tracking, appeals intelligence and development plan monitoring without limit. AI is included during the trial, with nothing to set up. Subscribe at any point to lift the 5-site cap and keep full access when the trial ends.

Nothing is deleted. If you have not subscribed, the account becomes read-only: you can open and view every site, record and photo, and adding and editing resume the moment you subscribe.

Draw the red line around the site and the appraisal follows. Four constraint checks run against the boundary itself, not a centre point: heritage (listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, parks and gardens, heritage at risk), landscape and environment (green belt, national landscapes and parks, SSSIs, ancient woodland, priority habitats, habitats sites, nutrient catchments and the predicted agricultural land grade), flooding (zones 2 and 3 and surface water, each again with climate change) and transport (the 800 metre station catchment with service frequency, bus stops and their weekday frequency, the cycle network, the Framework’s transport tests and, in London, TfL’s PTAL across the red line). For a London site they add Metropolitan Open Land and nature conservation sites, protected vistas and Critical Drainage Areas, and a London Plan check sets out site allocations, the Central Activities Zone, Opportunity Areas, town centres, industrial land, Air Quality Focus Areas, safeguarded wharves, the Thames Policy Area and the Mayoral CIL band. Alongside those sit the development plan position, the housing land supply as an Inspector last accepted it, every appeal decided around the site with the letter wherever one was published, your photographs pinned to the map, the site’s planning history and a PDF you can put in front of a client.

They read for you. Drop a council letter into casework and the tracker fields are filled in for you to check. Ask for a deadline briefing and it sets out what is due across your cases. Search the appeal letters by meaning rather than exact words. What the AI does not do is advise: it never predicts an outcome, argues for a result or tells you what to do. It frames the law, the policy and the considerations, and you make the judgement.

No. Town Planner Pro’s AI is a planning research assistant scoped to UK planning: it marshals the material from the data you provide and the public record. It does not give advice and is not a substitute for professional judgement. You remain the responsible professional, and the reports you export carry your name.

Treat it as a first draft that you check, and the app is built to make you check it. Every extraction is shown with an amber notice before it is saved, and the model is instructed to leave a field empty rather than guess. A blank you fill in is safer than a wrong date you never noticed.

Yes, but you do not need to. AI is included on the Full access and Appeals only plans and on the free trial, with nothing to set up. If you already hold credit with Anthropic, OpenAI or Google you can switch to your own key in Settings at any time without changing plan: calls then go from your browser straight to the provider, and the key is stored on your device only. A plan priced for your own key exists for heavy users; ask us about it.

Yes. The free search at townplannerpro.co.uk/appeals covers every English appeal decision since 2016, by words or by meaning, with the main issues and what decided it for every decision whose letter the Inspectorate has published (around nine in ten since 2022, fewer in the earlier years), plus every authority’s record. An account adds the Inspector’s letter held on file and read in full, the appeals not yet decided, the key case law counted across the letters, and every decision drawn around the red line of your own sites.

Directly from the Planning Inspectorate’s published records, held under the Open Government Licence v3.0, together with the published decision letters. Town Planner Pro holds over 270,000 decided appeals going back to 2016 and growing, tracks the appeals currently in progress, and adds each new decision within days of publication. The letters are read into structured findings: the main issues as the Inspector framed them, what decided the case, the planning balance and the policies and judgments cited. Sources are always shown, and every appeal links back to the Inspectorate’s own record.

Your work is saved to the device first. Photographs, notes and boundary edits made while the signal is poor are kept locally and sync to your account when you have signal, and the header shows when changes are waiting to sync. The app does need a connection to open and to load the map, and constraint checks and appeal searches read live public data, so plan for a signal at the start of a visit rather than none at all.

On your device first, then synced to your private account in the cloud in the UK (London region) so it follows you across devices. Photos and documents are kept in private storage. Nobody else can see your sites unless you export a report and send it, or, on Team, share a site with the whole practice or with named colleagues: a shared site, with its photographs, checks and documents, is readable by those colleagues and no one else. We don’t sell data or run third-party tracking.

Your account can be in use on one computer, one phone and one tablet at a time: typically a desktop browser in the office and an iPhone or iPad on site. Sign in on a second device of the same type and it takes the account over; the first is signed out and told so, and signing in again there takes it back. Nothing is lost either way. Your devices are listed under Settings.

Yes. Full access is £399 a year and Appeals only £150 a year, plus VAT, against £39 or £15 a month. On Solo you can switch between monthly and annual billing from Settings, and a change is charged or credited for the difference from that day. Team is £3,300 a year, arranged by email.

Cancel from Billing in Settings, which opens your subscription page. Your account then becomes read-only: you can still open and view everything, but adding and editing pause until you resubscribe. Nothing is deleted.

No. Every price shown is plus VAT at the standard rate, and your invoices come with VAT itemised.

Team is built for practices with support staff. Every site is private to the person who created it until they share it, with the whole practice or with named colleagues, and casework stays private to its owner. An admin prepares a site (the boundary, the checks, the documents, the history) and hands it over; the consultant reviews it and signs the appraisal under their own name, so a reviewed site’s report says who prepared it and who reviewed it. A site can be passed to a colleague with a note, and one person works on a site at a time. It is £300 a month plus VAT, or £3,300 a year, for an admin seat plus five consultants with AI included on every seat; further consultants are £25 a month each. Priced for the workflow, not per head. To set a practice up, email hello@townplannerpro.co.uk with your team’s names and email addresses. The fuller office console follows.

Town Planner Pro runs in any modern browser and is built for the desktop, where most of the work happens. On site it works on iPhone and iPad for taking photographs and reviewing a record (add it to your home screen from the share menu and it opens like an app). An App Store listing follows launch.

England. Every local planning authority in England, including the national parks and development corporations, with its planning register, adopted and emerging plans and appeal record. The constraints, the appeals database and the plan monitor are all built on English sources, so Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are not covered at launch. Wales is the first we intend to add.

Planning and development consultants first, from sole practitioners to practices, and anyone else who has to read the planning position of a piece of land properly: agents, developers, architects and solicitors. It is written by a practising chartered town planner for the standard that senior professionals already work to.

Email hello@townplannerpro.co.uk and you will get a reply from someone who uses the app every day. Every page in the app also has a Tips strip that walks you through it; dismiss it once you know your way around, and tap Tips to bring it back.