PlanStream is an AI-powered planning platform for the UK planning system, helping architects, consultants, and developers automate policy review, report drafting, and application search. It centralizes planning policies, maps, and historical application data to ensure compliance and build evidence-based submissions. The platform aims to save up to 70% of time on planning tasks, with early access currently available.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Architects and planning consultants in the UK spend significant time manually reviewing complex planning policies, drafting reports, and searching for relevant application precedents. This process is error-prone, slow, and often requires navigating multiple sources like Local Plans, NPPF, and flood maps, leading to inefficiencies and potential compliance issues.
Solution
PlanStream provides an AI-powered platform that automates the heavy lifting of the UK planning process. It automatically analyzes national and local policies, conservation areas, and flood maps to ensure proposals are policy-compliant. The software also drafts professional reports, such as design and access statements, using local context and historical data, and allows users to find and compare similar applications by type and location. By centralizing these tasks, PlanStream helps users save up to 70% of their time, allowing them to focus on design and client work.
Target Audience
Primary customers are architects, planning consultants, developers, and public sector town planners in the UK who need to streamline planning applications and ensure policy compliance.
Features
- Automated policy analysis that cross-references NPPF, Local Plans, Neighbourhood Plans, and constraints like conservation areas and flood maps.
- AI-driven report drafting for design and access statements, appeals, and other planning documents using local context and nearby applications.
- Application search and comparison tool that filters by type and location, with access to full documents and historical approval/refusal data.
- Interactive map with GIS layers to visualize application locations and relevant planning constraints.