How it works
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You give us the planning reference
The reference from your council's portal or the letter that came through your door. We look it up live across around 430 UK planning authorities and show you the address and the proposal, so you can confirm it's the right application before you pay anything.
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We check what protects the site
Using the Government's national planning data, we check whether the site sits in a conservation area, is covered by an Article 4 direction, falls in the Green Belt or a flood zone, is near a listed building, or carries tree protection. These designations are what give an objection statutory teeth, and most people objecting don't know they exist.
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We read the council's adopted local plan
Planning law requires your council to decide in accordance with its development plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise. So we find that plan, often several hundred pages, and pull out the policies that actually bear on your grounds of objection.
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We read what the applicant submitted
Their design and access statement, planning statement, heritage or transport assessment. An objection that answers the applicant's own case is far harder for an officer to set aside than one that argues in the abstract.
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We draft your objection
Two to three sides, structured argument by argument: what the applicant contends, why that's wrong, and the policy it breaches, quoted, with the policy number. Only material planning considerations. Every policy reference is checked against the source documents, and anything we can't verify is flagged to you.
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You review, edit and send it
It arrives in minutes, not days. You can change anything, because you know the site and we don't. Ask for a redraft, and download it as a Word document. You submit it to the council in your own name.
Updated for the new NPPF (August 2026)
The National Planning Policy Framework was restructured in August 2026. Every previous edition was cited by paragraph number, so you will still see “NPPF paragraph 11” or “paragraph 152” in objection letters and templates written before then. That numbering no longer exists.
National policy is now cited by code, grouped by subject: GB1 to GB8 for Green Belt, HE1 to HE10 for the historic environment, F1 to F9 for flood risk, N1 to N6 for the natural environment, TR1 to TR8 for transport, DP1 to DP4 for design. A letter citing a paragraph number today tells the case officer it was written against a superseded framework, and gives them a reason to discount it.
We hold the current edition in full, send the policies relevant to your grounds alongside your council's adopted local plan, and check every code that appears in your letter against it. A paragraph citation is treated as an error and the letter is redrafted.
What we won't do
We won't argue that a development will reduce your property value, block your view, or that you were there first. None of those are material planning considerations, and including them weakens everything else in the letter. We also won't invent a policy number to make an argument look stronger. If we can't verify a policy, we tell you.
Check if you have solid grounds to object (for free) before you pay anything.