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Ask Needles

Ask questions in plain English about planning appeals in the Needles database — traveller cases allowed in a county, an authority’s allow rate, or patterns across inspectors — and get a considered answer grounded only in Needles data.

✓Natural-language questions answered from the Needles case database
✓Multi-turn chat so you can refine follow-ups
✓Looks up cases, LPA performance and decision-letter topics for you
✓Cites real appeals with links into Needles
✓Uses AI — available on a paid subscription only

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