Does it know UK planning policy?

It's structured around what UK local authorities expect a Design and Access Statement to cover: context, policy compliance, design rationale, access and heritage. Give it a final check against your own authority's current policy before you submit, though. That moves by year and by council, and we don't pretend to track every local plan in the country.

How accurate are the contextual views?

As accurate as the site photograph and the model you bring in. Match the viewpoint, the light and the season to a real photograph of the site, and the montage carries your model's geometry straight through; the committee ends up looking at your actual scheme in its actual street.

What about drawings I have already produced?

Bring them in. Nobody's asking you to redraw a scheme you've already drawn in Revit, ArchiCAD or Vectorworks. ArchAdemia Tools handles the parts around the drawings, which are the parts that usually eat the week before submission.

Solution

Planning applications.

Drawings, contextual views and the written statement. The whole submission pack, without the week of formatting and boilerplate.

A planning application is mostly assembly. The design was settled weeks ago; what's left is drawings at the right scale, views that show the scheme in its setting, and a statement saying the same thing again in the prose a planning officer expects to read. ArchAdemia Tools does the assembly, and whatever time that gives you back goes into the scheme.

The submission pack, assembled.

Drawings

Plans, sections and elevations at sheet sizes and scales that suit a submission rather than a social crop.

Contextual views

The scheme placed in a real street photograph with matched light, so a committee can see what will actually be built.

Written statements

A drafted Design and Access Statement grounded in your own drawings, structured the way local authorities read them.

The statement reads your drawings first.

The writing looks at your renders and drawings and refers to what's actually in them, which is what separates a statement about your scheme from generic prose on materiality and massing that could belong to anybody's application. Expect a strong first draft. It still needs your judgement over the last stretch, and it isn't a document to submit unread.

Draft a statement

Your building in the actual street.

Drop in a site photograph and place the proposal into it with the light, the season and the viewpoint matched. Contextual views are the part of a submission that decides how a scheme reads to anyone who can't interpret an elevation, and that's most of the people who'll see it.

Set up around A1, A3 and a printer.

Output is set up around the formats submissions actually use: A1 and A3 sheets, drawing aspect ratios, layouts that survive being printed. Sounds like a detail until you've rebuilt a whole board on a Sunday because everything came out at 16:9.

Consultation material from the same source.

Pre-application and community consultation want a friendlier version of the same content. Since the drawings, views and text all live together, a consultation board or a summary document is a re-cut rather than a new job.

What a submission needs.

Drawings at sheet scale

Plans, sections and elevations produced at submission formats rather than screen formats.

Contextual views

The proposal placed into a real site photograph with matched lighting, season and viewpoint.

Design and Access Statements

Structured drafting that reads your own drawings and refers to them, covering the sections a planning officer expects.

Material and heritage studies

The same elevation across several material palettes, so a choice gets justified rather than just asserted.

Consultation material

Boards and summaries re-cut from the submission content, without rebuilding any of it.

One place for the pack

Drawings, views and text in the same software; a late design change updates all of it, rather than three things separately at eleven at night.

Frequently asked.

It gives you a strong, structured first draft grounded in your own drawings, ready for your professional judgement on policy, heritage and the site-specific argument. What it takes off you is the boilerplate, which is the half of the document nobody has ever enjoyed writing.

Ready to start? Jump straight in.

Every ArchAdemia Tools plan includes everything on this page. From £29 a month, all in, with no per-tool fees and no surprise charges.

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