PlanStream
PlanStream is an AI-powered planning platform for UK architects, planning consultants, and developers. It automates policy analysis, report drafting, and application search and comparison, helping users save up to 70% of their time. The platform cross-references NPPF, Local Plans, conservation areas, and flood maps to ensure policy compliance.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Construction Technology
- Software Only
- Government Technology
- Regulatory & Compliance Technology
Funding
Founders
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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. The platform is purpose-built for the UK planning system, not a generic tool, bringing together planning applications, policies, maps, reports, and approval insights in one intelligent platform.
Target Audience
Primary customers are architects, planning consultants, public sector town planners, and developers 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, flood maps, and listed building constraints.
- 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 application 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.