How UK Planning Guide Handles Authorship, Review And Updates
This policy exists to make the site easier to trust. It explains who writes the guidance, how pages are reviewed, how official sources are used and where the site deliberately stops short of pretending to be a formal decision-maker.
What The Site Tries To Do Consistently
- Keep the national planning baseline separate from the local authority context.
- Use official sources where they actually ground the next decision.
- Avoid making borderline schemes sound more certain than they are.
- Surface when a lawful development certificate, pre-application advice or specialist input is the safer move.
How Pages Are Reviewed And Updated
Core pages
Homepage, methodology, about, planning-permission hubs and the strongest local authority routes should be reviewed first whenever the trust or routing model changes.
Priority local pages
Pages already earning impressions are upgraded first, especially where stronger trust signals can help CTR and ranking without a full content rewrite.
Change notes
Priority pages should carry a short note when the authority footing, source basis or safer next-step wording changes materially.
What This Policy Does Not Claim
It does not claim that the site replaces council decisions, formal legal advice, architectural design advice or any regulated service. It is an accountability framework for practical planning guidance, not a substitute for the formal routes that still settle live cases.
What Priority Pages Should Show Clearly
Visible ownership
High-value pages should show who wrote them so the guidance feels clearly owned rather than system-generated.
Visible review
High-value pages should show when they were last reviewed and who checked the wording, official sources and escalation point.
Visible official sources
High-value pages should say which official source matters here and why it matters for this route, not just that an official source exists somewhere.