Forensic planning risk intelligence

Make it
defensible.

V-Score identifies every vulnerability a hostile planning officer would find in your application — before the decision is made. Pre-submission audit. Post-refusal forensics.

Validated prediction accuracy
5/6
GLA non-compliance points identified
independently before the Stage 1 letter
V-Score was run on the February 2026 submission documents for PA/26/00212 (LEB Building, Tower Hamlets) before the GLA published its Stage 1 response on 7 April 2026. Five of the six formal GLA non-compliance points were independently identified. No false positives. The missed item has been incorporated into the current methodology.
PA/26/00212 · GLA 2026/0115/S1 · Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets
What V-Score does

Not a summary.
A risk assessment.

Most planning tools tell you what is in the documents. V-Score reads across the entire submission to find what is missing, what is inconsistent, and what a hostile officer would use to refuse.

Every report identifies specific attack vectors — the exact policy grounds an officer would cite — ranked by severity, with the verbatim language they would use and a precise remediation programme.

The output is a scored, structured forensic report. Every finding is grounded in a specific document reference. Every score is explainable. Every recommended fix names who does it, when, and what it costs.

Five scoring dimensions
01
Financial viability
FVA forensics: benchmark methodology, finance assumptions, profit rates, the Parkhurst Road test.
02
Policy compliance
Affordable housing, tall buildings, PBSA, use class, space standards, S106 obligations.
03
Heritage and townscape
WHS, listed buildings, LVMF views, visual evidence methodology, CGI lens analysis.
04
Sustainability and environment
Carbon targets, UGF, biodiversity net gain, EIA adequacy, ecology survey completeness.
05
Procedural and legal
EIA compliance, S106 enforceability, fire strategy, JR exposure, Mayoral direction risk.
Who commissions V-Score

The people who bear the cost of a refusal.

Property developers

Before you commit capital

A pre-acquisition or pre-submission audit that quantifies planning risk before design spend is committed. Know where the vulnerabilities are while there is still time to fix them.

Funders and investors

Before you commit finance

Independent planning risk intelligence that is not produced by the applicant's own team. A second opinion with no commercial interest in the outcome.

Planning solicitors

Before you advise

Forensic cross-document analysis that surfaces procedural gaps, EIA inadequacies, and JR exposure across large application files. Fast, structured, evidenced.

A score that explains itself.

Every V-Score comes with a documented calculation: the penalties applied, the credits awarded, the correlation adjustments made, and the specific reasons the score is not five points higher or lower. When a planning partner or funder asks why the scheme scores 46, the answer is already in the report.

Band Score range Meaning Recommended decision
Green 70–100 Likely approved with standard conditions Proceed
Amber 50–69 Material risks requiring changes before approval Proceed with conditions
Orange 40–49 Multiple policy failures; at least one critical risk Defer for redesign
Red 20–39 Significant probability of refusal without major redesign Major redesign required
Black 0–19 Refusal probable on current evidence Withdraw or fundamental change
Two products

Intelligence at the moment it matters.

Pre-submission

Pre-Submission Audit

A full V-Score analysis of your submission documents before they go to committee. Identifies every attack vector a hostile officer would use — while there is still time to fix them.

£3,000 fixed fee
  • Five-dimension forensic analysis
  • Scored risk summary table
  • Attack vector language — exactly what the officer would write
  • Prioritised remediation roadmap with estimated costs
  • Cost of remediation vs cost of contested refusal
  • Delivered as a structured PDF report
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