14 types · 12 specimens
What you actually receive.
Every one of these is a real deliverable with a real specimen you can open and read in full. Which of them arrives on your case is decided by your application route and by what the map finds on your site, not by a package you chose.
All fourteen
Planning Statement
The main written case for a planning application. It describes the site and the proposal, then argues the scheme against the policies your council will actually decide it under.
Design and Access Statement
Explains the design thinking behind a scheme and how people will get to and around it. Required by statute for certain applications, and the first thing a design officer reads.
Heritage Statement
Identifies the heritage assets a scheme affects, explains what makes each of them significant, and assesses honestly what your proposal would do to that significance.
Flood Risk Assessment
Establishes which flood zone a site sits in, from every source of flooding, and shows how the scheme responds to that risk over its lifetime.
Appeal Statement
The written case put to a Planning Inspector after a refusal. It answers each reason for refusal in turn, on the policy the council itself relied on.
Lawful Development Certificate
Proves that something you have built, or intend to build, is lawful and needs no planning permission. It is a certificate of fact, not a judgement of merit.
Prior Approval
For development that is already permitted in principle, but where the council still gets a say on specific matters. Larger extensions and office-to-residential conversions are the common ones.
Discharge of Conditions
Submitted after permission is granted, to satisfy the conditions attached to it. Most permissions cannot be built out until these are cleared.
Non-Material Amendment
Changes something small on a permission you already hold, without going back for a new one. The test is whether the change is material, and that test is stricter than most people expect.
Tree Works
Supports an application to work on trees protected by a Tree Preservation Order, or a notification of work in a conservation area.
Advertisement Consent
For signage that needs consent. The council may only consider two things: amenity and public safety. Nothing else is relevant, and the document does not stray.
Hedgerow Removal
A notification to remove a hedgerow, tested against the criteria that decide whether it counts as important.
No specimen yet
Rather than show you a mocked-up cover, this one says so.
Affordable Housing Statement
Sets out whether a scheme triggers your council's affordable housing policy, and what it must provide or pay if it does.
Needs a second signature
No specimen yet
Rather than show you a mocked-up cover, this one says so.
Sustainable Design Statement
Shows how a scheme answers your council's sustainability and climate policies. Several councils require one for anything that creates new floorspace, with no lower threshold.
How the set is chosen
Your set is decided, not sold.
Three different parts of this system used to disagree about which documents a case needed, and they could never have agreed, because each was keyed on something different.
What the customer was sold was keyed on constraints. What was generated was keyed on application type, and returned exactly one document. Which specimen was shown was a text search over the sold list. The result was that nine of the twelve document types could never actually be produced for a paying customer, an application for a certificate of lawfulness was sold and generated a planning statement, and a case was capped at one document even where three had been paid for.
There is now one mapping, and the quote, the generator and the specimen shown all read it. That is why this page can promise that what you are shown is what you get.
Not sold
Two things we will not sell you.
Both are written into the mapping so they stay visible, and both are filtered out of every quote.
A Transport Statement. A major application genuinely needs one. There is no template for it, no typesetting row, no figure configuration and no specimen, so there is nothing to generate it from. It used to be added to the quote on every major application, which was the clearest instance of mis-selling in this product. It is now excluded from the quote and from the generator alike.
A complete tree works application. The correct deliverable is the statutory form plus a tree-by-tree schedule of works, usually resting on an arboricultural survey. What Wren produces is prose. So the quote says, before you pay, that this is a supporting statement only and that the form is filed separately through the Planning Portal.
Start here
Find out which of these your site needs.
Draw a boundary and the appraisal names the document set your route and your constraints require, itemised and priced, before you commit to anything.