Research
Assess any site's planning prospects in minutes.
Hyper Research runs deep AI searches across the planning knowledge graph, covering applications, legislation, appeals and precedent. Test a site's prospects before you commit to planning consultancy spend or acquisition.
How it works
From a question about a site to a cited answer.
Research works the way developers assess a site, starting from a live question rather than a reference number.
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Ask about a site in plain English
Frame questions as you would to a planning adviser, with no Boolean operators or reference codes 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, revealing connections a single-index database search would miss.
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Get ranked, cited results
Results are grouped by document type, with the relevant passage highlighted and linked to source so you can verify the citation before it reaches a submission.
The benefits
Why developers research with Hyper.
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 understanding surfaces the relevant decision even when it never uses your exact wording.
Every category at once
A single search covers applications, appeals, legislation, policy and case law together. No jumping between the Planning Inspectorate, legislation.gov.uk and council portals.
Faster to a view on risk
Site research falls from days to minutes, so you 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
Connected planning records.
Access comparable applications, appeal decisions, primary legislation, the NPPF, National Policy Statements and reported case law. 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.