PlanAI
Benefits
Reduces time required to process planning consultations from 18.5 hours to 16 minutes. Generated detailed summaries of 320 public submissions with no noticeable difference in quality compared to human-generated ones. Allows planners to focus on technical aspects of plan making rather than administrative tasks. Enables planning departments to engage the public more frequently and thoroughly on a wider range of issues.
Details
- Tool name
- PlanAI
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Natural Language Processing, Large Language Model, generativeAI
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Natural Language Processing Large Language Model generativeAI
- Usecase
- Document Intelligence
- Origin
- cambridge.gov.uk
- Owning team
- Greater Cambridge Shared Planning - the shared planning service for Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District councils
- Date added
- 21 July 2025
- Scrape date
- Source note
- The tool was developed in collaboration with the Planning Policy and Strategy team at Greater Cambridge Shared Planning to ensure the reports generated were consistent with how the councils currently report back to local communities and elected members. [Source]