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You review it.
You revise it.
You sign it.
Wren drafts planning documents and chartered professionals sign them. Every citation in a draft has been resolved against its source before it reaches you. Nothing goes out under your name that you have not read in full and rewritten as you see fit.
WRN-2026-00042Planning Statement
v1 · 18 pages
Analysis
82
Is the reasoning sound, given the data it had
Data completeness
71
Do we have every fact the document needs
Reviewer queries
Most material first
- Judgement§5.4
Whether the rear elevation preserves the character and appearance of the conservation area is a judgement. The policy text is retrieved and quoted in full at 5.2. This is yours to make.
- Missing fact§3.2
Gross internal area of the proposed dwelling. Not dimensioned on the submitted drawings and not derivable from them.
- Missing reference§1.1
Reference of the accompanying structural report. Not supplied by the applicant.
14 citations, all verified · full audit attached
£279.20 on sign-off
What lands in your queue. Two independent confidence numbers, and queries sorted by how much each one actually matters.
The terms
No monthly fee. No exclusivity. No minimum hours.
You set how many hours a week you want and which specialisms you will take. You can stop accepting work with one switch, and turn it back on the same way. There is nothing to cancel, no notice period, and no clause preventing you working anywhere else. Wren is not trying to be your employer or your only client.
You are paid per case, once, for all of it: reviewing the drafts, revising them, signing them, completing the council’s forms, lodging the application, answering the case officer and recording the decision. There are no salaried case managers behind you doing half of that, which is why the fee is what it is.
The fee
80% of the review and case-management pool.
Not 80% of the case fee. The document line is Wren's own production and is not in the pool, and it would be easy to quote the larger-sounding number, so here is the arithmetic in full.
| Application | Customer pays Wren | The pool | You |
|---|---|---|---|
| Householder | £499 | £349 | £279.20 |
| Minor | £1,995 | £1,395 | £1,116 |
| Major | £6,995 | £4,495 | £3,596 |
| Appeal | £799 | £499 | £399.20 |
One fee per case, however many documents you sign on it. The pool is frozen onto your record the moment you sign, so a later price change cannot move money you have already earned, and a case whose type is corrected afterwards cannot silently reprice work you have already done.
Your exposure
What protects you
You are the one putting a membership number on this. That should be the first question, not the last.
A draft that cannot verify a citation never reaches you
11 categories are resolved against their live source before a draft is allowed out: statute, framework paragraphs, listed building entries, case law, flood zones, comparables, local policy, validation lists, supplementary documents, conservation area appraisals and design guides. If one cannot be resolved, generation fails and nothing is saved. You are not asked to spot it.
Characterisation is tested separately from existence
Confirming a policy number exists is not enough, because a real policy can be paraphrased into something it does not say. Every characterisation of local policy is either a verbatim quotation or is put to a strict entailment test against the retrieved text. Where the test cannot support the description, it comes to you as a judgement query rather than passing quietly.
Every citation is logged and re-verifiable
Source, URL, outcome, timestamp, and the retrieved passage with its own hash. If somebody asks in three years what a policy said on the day you signed, the answer exists. That trail is what an AI Use Disclosure is generated from, in the form the RICS standard has required since 9 March 2026.
You sign your file, not ours
The signature is taken over the exact bytes of the document you uploaded. Signing is refused outright until you have uploaded your own version, because a signature recorded against a document that does not bear your details would be a record of something that did not happen.
Nothing is filed without the client's approval
Your signature is a professional standing behind the work. It is not authority to file an application in somebody else's name, and the system will not treat it as one.
A document outside your competence is blocked, not flagged
An Affordable Housing Statement requires a RICS-registered valuer alongside the planner. The queue will not let you sign it alone.
Plainly
The draft is a starting point that has already done the retrieval. The judgement is yours, the revisions are yours, and the name on it is yours. If a draft is not good enough, rewrite it or refuse it. Nothing in this system pressures you to sign.
In depth
The detail
How you are paid
14 days after the decisionThe five states a fee passes through, when the clock starts, why it starts at the decision rather than at signature, and what happens if something is disputed.
What you sign, and what you can change
The review surfaceWhat arrives, how it is scored, what you can rewrite, the two attestations, and exactly what is recorded at the moment you sign.
Applying
Verified by a personWhat we ask for, how your membership is checked against the public register, how long it takes and what you can do while you wait.
Start here
Apply, and we will check your register entry by hand.
Two steps: an account, then your chartered body, membership number and grade. A person then checks it against the public register, which usually takes a day or two, and that is the point.