Assess planning applications faster, with pinpoint accuracy.
Software purpose-built for planners. All the tools you need to assess, review and approve planning applications.
Software purpose-built for planners. All the tools you need to assess, review and approve planning applications.
Objective Trapeze is used by more than 300 local authorities in the UK, to transform inefficient paper-based planning processes.
Our purpose-built tools allow you to efficiently and accurately measure, calculate, compare, mark-up and stamp digital plans and drawings.
The result: Productivity boosts for planners. Faster decisions for applicants. Cost reductions and improved information governance for councils. And better outcomes for the community. Win, win, win, win.
Complex measurements, made simple
Easily measure length, width, area, radius, angle, setback, open space and more using digital measurement tools created specifically for planners.
Verify compliance without looking away from your plans
Ensure planning applications are compliant with local planning schemes, by manipulating percentages and calculations to check site coverage and gross floor area, to name a few.
Perform specific assessments with ease using specialist tools
Easily assess plans and drawings for consistency with local zoning, development controls and other planning instruments using purpose-built features like the Light Table, Overlay, Cone of Vision, Recession Plane and Offset Line Annotation tools.
Easily flag changes or areas needing attention with visual cues
Mark up your documents with customisable text boxes, clouds, sticky notes, images, stamps and more to show compliance or non-compliance, highlight amendments and keep track of your measurements.
Improve RFIs and referrals by communicating visually
Describing an issue in words can be time consuming and hard to do. Smart mark-up tools help you clearly and effectively convey meaning with applicants and referral agencies, while eliminating unnecessary back and forth communication; enabling faster resolution and better outcomes.
Simplify and speed up the approval process with digital stamping
Create and save custom stamps that include your council logo, signatures, images, date, time and metadata from your eDRMS, such as reference numbers and assessor names. Apply to the whole document or only a section, in a few mouse clicks.
Quickly compare, pixel by pixel, two versions of a document
Document Compare removes tedium and saves you time by automatically detecting changes and highlighting the amended pages.
Catch sneaky changes at a page level
We’ve all reviewed updated plans to find a balcony has ‘suddenly’ been extended or a building given a completely different footprint than what was discussed or shown in previous plans.
Page Compare allows you to easily spot what’s changed in a plan using sliding and fading techniques on pages stacked on top of each other, so you never miss a thing again.
Connect your systems for a seamless experience
Access, measure, mark up and save documents from your eDRMS directly within Objective Trapeze. Eliminate frustration and boost your productivity and efficiency by seamlessly integrating planning assessment into your existing workflows.
Extend information governance across your plans and drawings
Eliminate paper by ensuring documents born digital, stay digital. Work confidently and avoid version confusion, knowing your information governance is managed in the background.
Who we integrate with
Micro Focus® Content Manager (formerly TRIM), TechnologyOne® ECM (formerly DataWorks) and CiAnywhere, Objective ECM, SharePoint®, OpenText® eDOCS DM (formerly Hummingbird Enterprise), iManage® Work and CoSign® by DocuSign®.
Our teams are based in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Take advantage of experts who understand local government and planning, are in your timezone, and are dedicated to helping you get the most out of Objective Trapeze.
Navigate and zoom into sections of large maps or plans without losing clarity, and focus on the content that matters.
Easily edit and organise PDFs with essential layout, page manipulation and bookmarking options.
Create digital copies of your paper documents and automatically generate bookmarks for easier navigation.
Safeguard sensitive data by irreversibly redacting information from your PDFs. Apply exemption codes for global Privacy, FOI Acts and more.
Boost your productivity and work faster and smarter using keyboard shortcuts.
Save time by defining custom presets that you can easily access and use later for annotations, setbacks, building envelopes, egress paths and more.
Transform scanned documents and images into text-searchable and selectable PDFs with OCR technology.
Easily set up, customise and lock down stamps, annotation presets and other preferences. Preview your configuration and centrally roll it out to users in your organisation.
Objective Trapeze has been phenomenal. It saves the assessment team a huge amount of time and effort.
Simone Plummer
Development Assessment Manager, Sutherland Shire Council
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