Pre-submission review for town planners · Cape Town
Spluma Pro reconciles every figure in a land use application against the Development Management Scheme, computes the departures and drafts the motivation report to the Section 99 headings. You check it, sign it and lodge it.
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24-unit apartment block, two erven
GR4 · PT1 · consolidation, departures, title deeds
Facts file
Extracts every figure from the documents, with where it was found
Rules enginecode
Computes every departure from the DMS, in the City's wording
Consistency check
Reconciles every figure and proofreads the submission
Title deed analysis
Classifies each condition and drafts amended wording
Drafter
Writes the motivation by Section 99, figures filled in by code
Case officer and objectors
Tests the draft as the City and the neighbours would
Units stated as 24, floors add to 23
CriticalThe report states 24 units, but the floor schedule gives 6 + 6 + 6 + 5 = 23. Every figure that depends on the unit count follows it.
Unit count
Parking departure applied for on the wrong requirement
CriticalAt 23 units in PT1 the DMS requires 29 bays, not 30. The parking departure shrinks by one bay once the totals are fixed.
Parking
Floor area stated two ways
Major1 842.50 m² in the report and 1 845.20 m² in the schedule. Use one figure throughout.
Floor area
A made-up example, not a real application. The kinds of issues are the ones Spluma Pro finds in practice.
The problem
A land use application is hundreds of figures spread over a report, a schedule, plans and title deeds. When one of them disagrees with another, the case officer has to ask, and someone on your team has to answer. Spluma Pro finds those before you lodge, so your time goes on the planning, not the back-and-forth.
A report says 24 units and the floors add to 23. The parking requirement, the floor area and the departures all follow the wrong number.
The plans need a building line departure the application never asks for, so the City can't approve what's drawn.
A blank title deed number, an annexure referred to but missing, a by-law cited by the wrong year or section.
A motivation that skips Section 99 considerations, or argues without evidence, leaves the case officer to ask again.
How it works
The motivation report, plans, application form, title deeds, SG diagrams and schedules, as PDF or scanned images.
Every figure reconciled against the DMS and against itself. You see how many issues there are, how serious, and two in full.
Unlock the full audit, every departure worded for the City, the title deed analysis and a motivation to the Section 99 headings.
Everything opens in Word with the items that need your judgement flagged. You check it, sign it and lodge it.
Methodology
Language models are good at reading documents and writing arguments, and unreliable at arithmetic. So Spluma Pro splits the work: six steps, each with one job, and every figure in the report comes from the facts file or the rules engine. It cannot drift between sections.
Read the methodology and sourcesFacts file
Extracts every figure from the documents, with where it was found
Rules engine
Computes every departure from the DMS, in the City's wording
Consistency check
Reconciles every figure and proofreads the submission
Title deed analysis
Classifies each condition and drafts amended wording
Drafter
Writes the motivation by Section 99, figures filled in by code
Case officer and objectors
Tests the draft as the City and the neighbours would
What you get
What doesn't reconcile, what's missing and what the figures actually require, ranked by severity. Exported to Word.
Floor factor, coverage, height, building lines per storey and parking, each in the City's "X m in lieu of Y m" wording.
Each condition classified and tested against the proposal, with a recommendation and drafted amended wording.
Written to the Section 99 headings with every figure filled in by code, ready to edit in Word.
The draft scored as the City would score it, with unsupported claims flagged before you lodge.
The objections an advertised application is likely to draw, answered in the motivation in advance.
Accountability
Spluma Pro is a review and drafting tool for registered professionals. Every output is flagged for your judgement and lodged under your name.
Figures come from one facts file, each with the document and page it came from. The rules engine shows the item and table behind every limit.
The agents may cite only provisions in the register. Code checks the citations in your submission and in the draft.
Used only to run your application, never to train AI models, and deleted when you ask.
Pricing
The scan shows how many issues your application has, how many are critical, and two of them in full. One payment unlocks and fixes the rest, putting top-tier reasoning models to work drafting and reviewing your application. No subscription, no seats, no tiers.
R4 999 per project
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Town planning firms preparing land use applications in Cape Town, and the architects and developers who work with them.
Departures, consolidations and removal or amendment of title deed conditions in Cape Town, from a block of flats to a carport or a braai room on a residential erf. The DMS rules for Residential Zoning 1 and General Residential GR2 to GR6 are in code, taken from the City's current consolidated by-law; for other zones the scan checks the proposal against the limits your submission states and flags them for you to confirm. Other metros' schemes are next; the rules engine is built per municipality.
From one facts file extracted from your documents, and a rules engine written in code. The AI writes the arguments and refers to figures; it never types one. That removes the whole class of errors where a report says 24 units and the floors add to 23.
No. It is a review and drafting tool. The planner checks every flagged item, signs the report and lodges it.
Documents you upload are used for your application only. Spluma Pro never republishes City documents, owner details are not used for anything else, and our examples are made up. The scan also flags personal information, such as ID numbers or vehicle registration papers, in documents the City will publish when it advertises your application.
Nobody can promise that, and we don't. The City decides on the merits, and a case officer can always ask for more. What Spluma Pro does is remove the avoidable queries: figures that don't reconcile, departures that weren't applied for, missing deed numbers and annexures.
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