Built for consultants, architects, and in-house planning teams. GapSense reads your application against the local plan and the national framework that will decide it. The gaps, the conflicts, the procedural risks. Before the LPA does.
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Three steps. No integrations, no setup, no consultancy retainer. Drop in your draft and see what your case officer will see - against the local plan, the national framework, and every recent decision in your ward.
Design and access statement, drawings, supporting reports, heritage statements - whatever your case officer would expect to receive. We process the same way an officer would: read the supporting docs, cross-reference the drawings, follow the citations.
Each application is jurisdiction-scoped. We hold the full local-plan corpus and the relevant national framework for the council that will decide it. Every finding cites the actual paragraph it relies on.
You get back an HTML and PDF report - depth depends on the application's complexity. Findings are grouped by policy area and graded compliant / partial / conflict, with an officer-language forecast at the end.
Drop it into a design and access statement, ship it to a client as a pre-application memo, or use it as your own internal go / no-go check before filing.
The local plan. The supplementary guidance. The national framework. We don't summarise, we cite.
GapSense reads your draft application before submission, against the same body of policy the case officer will reach for. Each finding links back to the actual paragraph it relies on. No paraphrase you can't audit.
Output is a structured report covering policy compliance, procedural risk, and a forecast of what an officer will likely raise. Available as HTML and PDF, ready to drop into a design and access statement or a pre-application letter.
Tests you haven't addressed. Missing assessments, unrebutted presumption-against, design statements that don't engage with the right supplementary guidance. The kind of gap that earns a "needs further information" notice on day twelve.
Wrong application type, missing supporting documents, statutory consultee triggers, validation requirements your LPA will bounce on. We flag them so you don't lose six weeks to a re-submission.
A forecast of what the case officer will likely raise, in their own language. Refusal-risk signals on day zero, not week eight. Helps you decide whether to amend, apply for a lawful-development certificate instead, or not file at all.
Start with a screening. The pre-submission assessment is the headline. We also produce structured appeal reports after a refusal - same login, same dashboard.
Is this site worth pursuing? A postcode, a grid reference, or a drawn boundary is enough. GapSense screens the site against the local plan and the constraints that decide it, before you commit to a full application.
Before the applicationRead your draft application against the local plan and the national framework that will decide it. Findings cited against the actual paragraphs.
Pre-submissionCited grounds of appeal, plus a search across our corpus of recent appeal decisions for relevant precedent.
After refusalEvery recent decision in your ward, indexed and read alongside your application. The case files, the officer reports, the committee minutes - so your report cites real precedent, not just policy in the abstract.
Each finding cites the actual paragraph it relies on. Examples below are illustrative.
GapSense is not a substitute for an RTPI-qualified planner. It does not file the application for you. It does not guarantee approval. It is a check before submission - an extra pair of eyes that has read every paragraph that applies. The right way to use it: draft your application, run it through us, then have a planner review the report before you file.
