AI-powered Planning Document Analysis
Benefits
The AI-powered system improves the extraction and analysis of information from local plans, with two key breakthroughs: 1) A chatbot that can extract information from local plans with accuracy rates of 59% for specific timeframe questions, 76% for lifetime plan questions, and 43% for open-ended questions on topics like climate change. 2) A standard taxonomy classification system developed by analyzing 120,000+ pages from 100 local plans using a large language model, creating a standardized table of contents.
Details
- Tool name
- AI-powered Planning Document Analysis
- Organisation
- Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government
- Status
- pilot
- AI method (as recorded)
- Large Language Model, Natural Language Processing
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Large Language Model Natural Language Processing
- Usecase
- Document Intelligence
- Origin
- gov.uk
- Owning team
- MHCLG Digital Planning Programme
- Date added
- Scrape date
- 01/05/2026
- Source note
- The MHCLG Digital Planning Programme partnered with Faculty AI on a 6-week project to explore using AI to extract information from planning documents. The project aimed to streamline access to information in local plans which specify future development in an area. In addition to the chatbot and taxonomy development, the team is working with Local Planning Authorities through the PropTech Innovation Fund to explore how AI can help with processing consultation feedback. [Source]