Know what your council will say, before you start spending
Most homeowners hire an architect, wait three months, and only then find out whether the council will approve what they've drawn up. Get a planning intelligence report on your property in 30 seconds and walk into every conversation already knowing what gets approved nearby, what gets refused, and what your property's constraints actually are.
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Why £19 is the cheapest thing you'll spend on this
The cost of not knowing what your council approves rarely shows up as a refusal. It shows up as an architect's scheme that gets watered down over months of back-and-forth, an application that drags on because the officer keeps asking for changes, or a £548 permission that comes with conditions you weren't expecting.
A typical householder application costs between £2,000 and £4,000 in architect drawings and around three months of waiting before the council says anything substantive. The homeowners who get clean approvals aren't lucky. They go in already knowing what's been approved on their street, what's been refused, and what their property's constraints are.
This report gives you what a planning consultant would charge several hundred pounds to assemble. In 30 seconds. For £19.
Your Property Planning Report
A PDF you can read on your phone in 10 minutes, or hand to your architect.
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Do you even need permission? A clear answer for your specific property, taking into account conservation areas, listed building status, Article 4 directions, and other constraints that limit Permitted Development rights.
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What gets approved on streets like yours. Real recent decisions within 500m of your property, not generic statistics.
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Why applications get refused around here. The specific reasons your council has refused similar projects, so your design can avoid them.
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The constraints that affect your property. Flood zones, conservation areas, TPOs, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, ancient woodland and the rest, checked against the planning datasets your council uses.
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What to do next. Whether to go straight to a planning application, book pre-application advice first, or rethink the project entirely, with the actual fees for your specific council.
Every claim in your report links back to a real council decision, so you can check the data for yourself.
Walk in already knowing
How it changes the architect conversation
Most homeowners turn up to their first architect meeting with a vague brief and let the architect shape everything: the scale, the design language, what to push for, what to play safe on. The result is often a scheme that costs more than it needed to, or one the council pushes back on because nobody asked what had already been approved nearby.
Spend £19 first. Walk into that meeting with a list of comparable projects approved within 500m, the specific refusal patterns your council has shown, the constraints that limit what's actually possible on your plot, and a sense of whether your council's pre-application advice is worth the fee.
You'll get a better scheme, faster, with fewer revisions. The £19 pays for itself before the architect's first invoice.