UK Planning Gateway

UK Planning Gateway operates the Validation Intelligence Layer governing pre-submission standards for planning applications across England and Wales.

Across the planning system, a significant proportion of applications experience delay or invalidation due to incomplete documentation, inconsistent drawing standards, or misalignment with Local Planning Authority validation requirements.

For professional users this creates operational disruption, reputational exposure with clients, and substantial non-billable time spent correcting submission packs and managing resubmissions.

UK Planning Gateway addresses this structural risk by introducing a structured pre-submission validation framework aligned with published Local Planning Authority validation checklists.

The system standardises how submission packs are assembled, documented and checked before they enter local authority systems. Its purpose is to reduce submission volatility by ensuring that required documentation, drawing conventions, and supporting materials are organised in accordance with published validation requirements prior to submission.

The Validation Intelligence Layer is designed for professional users including architects, architectural technologists and planningconsultants responsible for preparing planning applications across multiple local planning authorities.

At the centre of the framework is AskArchi, a structured intelligence engine trained on national planning datasets including validation checklists, appeal decisions, planning committee reports and technical guidance. The system analyses submission packs against these structured datasets to identify documentation gaps, naming inconsistencies and compliance risks before applications are transmitted to local authority systems.

UK Planning Gateway incorporates an expanding national dataset including:

• Local authority validation checklists
• Conservation area appraisal records
• Planning committee report archives
• Appeal decision data
• Planning authority contact and submission information

These datasets support a systematic compliance methodology designed to align submission packs with published planning authority requirements across England and Wales. The long-term objective is to support greater consistency in the preparation of planning submissions while generating anonymised intelligence on validation patterns and authority processing behaviour across the national planning system.

UK Planning Gateway is headquartered in Birmingham and forms part of the Geovation PropTech programme, supporting the wider modernisation of planning data infrastructure in the United Kingdom.