Planning applications,
every policy cited.

AI for planning applications means drafting the written parts of a submission (design and access statements, planning statements, heritage and validation checklists) from the scheme, the site and the relevant local policies, with every policy reference cited so the architect or planning consultant can check it before submission.

In England the policy stack is the National Planning Policy Framework, the local plan, supplementary planning documents and any neighbourhood plan, and each local planning authority publishes its own validation list. In Spain the equivalent is the municipal planning instruments (plan general, ordenanzas) and the licencia de obras process. The documents are long, the structure is familiar, and the failure that matters is a confident sentence citing a policy that does not say what the sentence claims.

So the system retrieves the actual policy text for the site’s authority and the current plan version, quotes it, and argues from it. Where it cannot find a policy for a point, it says so rather than filling the gap.

The test set is your own past applications, including refusals. We check that each policy citation in a draft exists in the plan version that applied, and that the draft raises the issues the officer’s report later turned on. Citation accuracy is a gate: a draft with an unverifiable reference does not leave the system.

Plans change, so the policy index is versioned by authority and adoption date, and each draft records which version it used. Submission through the Planning Portal or the municipal sede electrónica stays a human step. For the specification work that follows consent, see specification writing.