Using Lawlatch means agreeing to these.

1. What Lawlatch is

Lawlatch is the case file for conditions on an English planning permission after grant: numbered rows, evidence, clocks, and a pack you submit as the appointed agent. We are not a council, we are not affiliated with any local planning authority, and we do not decide anything about an application. We do not file with the council. Lawlatch is not legal advice. These terms are with Tradecue, which operates Lawlatch.

2. Your account

One account is for one practice. It is created only after payment on Stripe succeeds; filling in the sign-up form does not open an account. Keep your password to yourself, and tell us if you think somebody else is in the account. You must be 18 or over. You open a case only where this practice is already appointed on the permission. Claiming a record does not notify the local planning authority.

3. What it costs

There is one plan. £29.99 / practice / month. £299.90 / year (10 × monthly). There is no free or limited version — the price is for the whole product. We are not VAT registered, so there is no VAT to add on top. Council discharge fees are paid to the council, not to Lawlatch.

Payment is taken by Stripe, on their own checkout page. We never see, handle or store your card number. Stripe holds the card, the billing address and your invoices. Their privacy notice covers what they hold.

A monthly plan renews until you cancel. You can cancel at any time. Cancelling stops the next payment: your access runs to the end of the period you have already paid for. A yearly plan works the same way for the year.

Cancelling does not refund the period you are in. If a payment fails, Stripe retries for a few days and you keep access throughout. If it still cannot be taken, claiming cases and generating packs pause until payment succeeds.

If we change the price, it applies from your next renewal and we will tell you before it does.

4. Accuracy, and what we do not promise

Everything you see from the register is a copy of what a council published, collected on a delay. Councils publish at different speeds, in different formats, and sometimes wrongly. Our copy will not always have caught up.

So: the council’s own record is the authoritative one. You should check it before you rely on a date, a status, or a start. We do not guarantee that our copy is complete, current or correct, and we do not promise the service will be uninterrupted. Lawful to start is read from the rows you confirm on the ledger — it is not a substitute for reading the decision notice.

5. You file the pack

Lawlatch prepares the cover letter, schedule, evidence index, and zip. You submit that pack with the council as the appointed agent. You are responsible for what it says, for the evidence you attach, and for following whatever rules that authority sets. We do not write, file or guarantee a discharge, and we do not promise an outcome.

Do not use Lawlatch to imply you are acting for a council, or to claim a permission you are not appointed on.

6. Fair use of the data

The account is for this practice’s own appointed cases. You may not resell, redistribute or republish the data, scrape the site in bulk, or use it to build a competing product. Automated access outside normal browsing needs our written agreement.

Underlying planning data belongs to the councils and registers that publish it and stays subject to their licences.

7. Ending it

Close your account whenever you like, and it takes your data with it. We can suspend an account that breaks clause 5 or 6, or that puts the service at risk — and if it is not urgent we will tell you why first.

8. Liability

We provide the service as it is. We are not liable for a start that was not lawful, a discharge that was refused, a pack that arrived late, or anything that follows from data being late, missing or wrong — which is why clause 4 asks you to check the council’s record. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not let us limit.

9. Changes, and the law that applies

If we change these terms we will change the date at the top and tell you about anything significant. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and its courts have jurisdiction.

Questions: hello@lawlatch.uk. How we handle your data is in the privacy notice.

These terms describe the product as it runs. They have not been signed off by a solicitor.