AI and Planning – Page 4
How AI-assisted drafting works, its limits and when a licensed professional is required.
AI and Planning articles – page 4
86 articlesReviewing a drafted flood risk assessment properly
Most weak flood risk assessments are not wrong about hydraulics. They are wrong about scope, sources and allowances, and those errors are visible in minutes.
The limits of drafting for an Environmental Statement
Regulation 18 requires an Environmental Statement prepared by competent experts, chapter by chapter. Drafting help handles structure and summaries, not judgement or survey data.
Editing a draft to match a local validation checklist
Most validation failures are administrative. Here is how to map documents to a specific authority's local list, name the files correctly and justify what you leave out.
Site information a postcode cannot tell you
Designation layers load from a postcode. Levels, ground conditions, title, previous extensions and neighbouring window positions do not, and applications turn on them.
Keeping an audit trail for an assisted submission
A challenge to a statement you wrote a year ago is answered from the file, not from memory. Here is the record a practice needs and the minimum version of it.
Competent person rules and biodiversity net gain drafts
The statutory biodiversity metric depends on field condition assessment by a competent person. This sets out what a drafted gain plan can cover and what only an ecologist can complete.
Using automatic constraint detection as a starting point
An automated constraint check is good triage and poor evidence. Here is what the national datasets cover, what only the council holds, and the searches to run before you commit.
Structuring a planning statement so compliance is checkable
A planning statement works when the officer can lift its structure into the report. Here is the sequence to follow, what belongs in each section, and how to write a usable balance.
What a reviewer checks in a drafted heritage statement
A reviewer reads a heritage statement backwards from its conclusion. If the significance assessment cannot support the harm judgement, nothing else in the document saves it.
Validation failures caused by generic supporting statements
A supporting statement that could describe any site is the most common avoidable validation failure. The fix is mechanical: tie every section to this address, these constraints and these policies.
Briefing a drafting tool with your site constraints
A document drafted from thin inputs looks finished and says nothing specific. What to establish first, and the six checks to run on any draft that comes back.
Why a drafted report cannot replace a bat survey
Software can draft the report around survey evidence. It cannot produce the evidence, and a permission granted without it can authorise a criminal offence.
Checking policy citations before you submit a draft
A wrong policy number does not invalidate an application, but it tells the officer nobody checked. Here is a repeatable routine for verifying every citation before submission.
What a to be confirmed flag in a draft report means
A to be confirmed flag marks a site specific fact that cannot be inferred from a postcode. Here is what each category of gap needs, and how to check none survive to submission.
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