Research
Search the whole planning record in minutes.
Hyper Research runs deep, rapid AI search across the planning knowledge graph — applications, legislation, appeals and precedent — so you find the material that shapes a decision without leaving the workspace.
How it works
Start from the issue, reach the precedent that settles it.
Research works the way planners actually work a case, starting from a live issue rather than a reference number.
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Ask in plain planning language
Pose the question the way you'd brief a colleague — 'appeals allowed on Green Belt very special circumstances since the 2023 NPPF' — no Boolean strings or exact reference numbers required.
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Hyper searches the knowledge graph
One query runs across applications, decision notices, appeal decisions, National Policy Statements, primary legislation and case law at the same time — connections a single-index database search would miss.
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Get ranked, cited results
Findings come back grouped by document type with the passage that matters surfaced first, each one hyperlinked to source so you can verify the citation before it reaches a submission.
The benefits
Why AI search beats a database query.
Traditional portals match keywords in one index at a time. Hyper reads across the whole corpus and understands what you're really asking.
More comprehensive
Semantic search reads meaning, not just keywords, so it surfaces the relevant appeal even when it never uses your exact wording.
Every category at once
Applications, appeals, legislation, policy and case law searched in a single pass — no jumping between the Planning Inspectorate, legislation.gov.uk and council portals.
Faster to precedent
Trade days of manual trawling for a couple of minutes, and spend the time saved on judgement rather than retrieval.
Grounded and verifiable
Every result links straight to the original document, so nothing rests on a hallucinated reference — a safeguard consumer chatbots can't offer.
Knowledge graph
Applications, appeals, legislation and case law — connected.
Hyper links schemes to the policies they engage, the appeals that tested them and the case law that settled them. Follow a thread from a comparable consent through to the inspector's reasoning without rebuilding the chain by hand.
- Comparable applications and decision notices, mapped to your site's issues
- Appeal decisions and the material considerations that carried them
- Primary legislation, the NPPF and National Policy Statements, current as at the date of search
- Reported case law, with the passage relied upon surfaced first
Put the whole planning record at your fingertips.
Start every submission from the strongest evidence base — comprehensive, current and cited.