CoolPlan Audit
An AI auditor that scores draft local plans and planning submissions against RTPI and TCPA cooling and green-infrastructure best practice, flagging gaps before adoption.
UK planning consultants and small-to-medium housing developers preparing local-plan submissions
- Local-plan compliance scoring against RTPI cooling criteria
- Auto-calculated Green Space Factor and shaded-area metrics
- Gap report comparing to neighbouring council plans
- Exportable memo for planning committee meetings
The RTPI found only ~27% of councils use a recognised green-space tool and the Future Homes Standard is widely viewed as insufficient, creating immediate professional demand for better pre-submission checks.
RTPI's 'Local Plans and the Climate Crisis' research confirms a stark gap between climate ambition and tangible policy action, and the UK government is actively pushing AI planning tools to deliver 15M homes, indicating real professional demand.Local Plans and the Climate Crisis: The gap between ambition and action ↗AI tool to slash planning decision times as government accelerates push to build 15 million homes ↗
PlanStream, Atlasly, PlanningBot and Valon already cover AI-assisted planning reports and policy checks, but none appear specifically focused on RTPI/TCPA cooling and green-infrastructure best-practice auditing — leaving a narrow, not wide-open niche.PlanStream - AI Planning Assistant ↗Valon | AI for Planning Departments ↗Atlasly vs PlanningBot: UK AI Planning Tool Compared ↗
The existence of paid competitors like PlanStream and Valon targeting UK planning teams indicates willingness to pay, but no public pricing was retrievable for the specific cooling/green-infrastructure audit niche, keeping this average.PlanStream - AI Planning Assistant ↗
Future Homes and Buildings Standards 2025 consultation, Part O overheating regs (in force June 2022), and widely documented insufficiency of current overheating protections create multi-year regulatory tailwinds for cooling-focused compliance tooling.The Future Homes and Buildings Standards: 2023 consultation ↗Prevent overheating under the new building regulations ↗
Building requires a curated corpus of RTPI/TCPA guidance, NPPF, local plans and Part O/FHS documents — feasible with modern RAG/LLM stacks but non-trivial corpus work and ongoing policy-tracking engineering.