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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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.
Pre-submission assessment is the headline. We also produce structured appeal reports after a refusal, and first-pass Design and Access Statements - same login, same dashboard.
Read 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 refusalFirst-pass Design and Access Statement built from your drawings and proposal, ready to refine before you file.
Supporting docsEvery 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.
Tell us about your practice. We'll come back with how GapSense fits.
Tell us a little about you and we'll be in touch about getting you set up on GapSense.
Tell us where you work. We'll email you when GapSense goes live in your LA. No other mail.
