New application types, flexible payments, email signatures, a loyalty card, and a first look at connecting your AI tools directly to Planda Portal! Here's everything we've shipped.

Planda Portal MCP connects AI tools like Claude directly to your account, so you can ask plain-English questions and get answers based on your real application data. It supports tasks like checking missing documents and drafting applications, but submission and payment still happen in the portal itself.

From 6 August 2026, new rules change which developments need to deliver mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain.

Planda Portal, the new planning application submission platform with built-in AI validation, and Resi , the UK’slargest home improvement architecture practice, announced a groundbreaking partnership.

A new loyalty card for customers who are new to Planda Portal.

On the 21st of July 2026, Planda Portal, the planning application submission platform with built-in AI validation, and Arcus Global, a leading supplier of cloud-based back-office planning systems to UK local authorities, announced their live integration partnership.

This month we shipped two things we promised — teams and referrals — alongside a partner API that lets other platforms plug directly into Planda, continued AI validation improvements, and progress on our council relationships through ALBPO.

Applications are up, rates aren't down: we dig into the NPPF effect on the UK planning pipeline, plus standout Planda Portal projects and our new Building Spotlight feature.

Four months after launch, Planda Portal has shipped major updates monthly - most recently Prior Approvals for home extensions and fully live Organisations & Teams - while cutting users' invalid application rates to 35%, well below the 50% industry standard. Here's everything that's happened since February.

Four months in, and we've been busy. Application tracking, mobile improvements, AI updates, and more - here's Planda Portal's latest product update.

The UK wants to be an AI superpower. We looked at whether the planning pipeline can deliver the infrastructure to match.

We've spent the past month talking to more local planning authorities than ever, updating features across the platform, and hearing from you. Here's the May update for Planda Portal

The first in our quarterly transparency reports. We're sharing the data behind our product decisions, from invalid rate trends to AI performance, and what we're building next to make planning applications less painful.

We've shipped a lot over the past three weeks. Here's the April update of Planda Portal in one place.

AVA is Planda Portal's built-in validation assistant. Here's what it checks, why it flags things, and why you're always the one in control.

Planning application fees in England are rising by 3.8% from 1 April 2026 — here's what's changing, what it means for your applications, and why our fees at Planda Portal aren't going up.

A complete guide to planning application fees in England, covering all application types, fee structures, exemptions, and combination rules. Learn why accurate fee calculation matters and how Planda Portal automates the process.

A complete guide to planning application fees in England, covering all application types, fee structures, exemptions, and combination rules. Learn why accurate fee calculation matters and how Planda Portal automates the process.

Labour's housing ambitions are real but are the approvals keeping up? This issue, Amber Spencer digs into the data behind the 1.5 million homes target, while Celia Pearson looks at five projects designing for the way people actually live.

We have shipped six new features and over 160 product improvements, all shaped by feedback from agents, planning consultants and applicants using the platform every day. This post takes a closer look at what has changed and what we are working on next.