PlanningAssist · Beta

The planning question, answered from the rules.

Beta

It’s public and still changing.

Ask in plain English, add your postcode, and PlanningAssist answers from your local plan and national policy — with numbered sources you can open and read yourself.

PlanningAssist: a question, and an answer with its numbered sources

Ask in plain English.

A plain-English answer.

Numbered sources you can open and read yourself.

How it answers

  1. AskDescribe the project the way you’d explain it to a neighbour.
  2. GroundIt finds the local plan and national policy that apply where you are.
  3. SourceThe answer lists where each point comes from.
123klocal-plan policy chunks across the UK.
Coverage

347 of 361 planning authorities (96%).

When it can’t answer

If the policy it can find doesn’t cover the question, it says so rather than guessing.

How the answers stay honest

It answers the way all our planning work does: only from the passages it finds, with a numbered source for every point.

Read the method →
Where you are

Your postcode tells it which planning authority, and which nation’s policy, applies.

Checked rules

Common householder questions are answered from rule cards that we check against the legislation in advance.

Try PlanningAssist ↗

Free to ask. assist.planninghandbook.com

Its limits

Like Planning Handbook, it doesn’t make planning decisions, give legal advice or guarantee outcomes.

  1. ReadPlanning Handbook ↗Guidance
  2. AskPlanningAssistBeta
  3. CheckPlanningConsultIn development
Read → Ask → Check

Read the guidance, ask PlanningAssist, then check the site.

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