Software purpose-built for planners and building officers. 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 from paper to digital.
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.
Easily scale plans and measure areas, lengths, percentages, setbacks and more using digital measurement tools created specifically for planners and building officers. Keep track of your measurements in the floating Measurement Panel.
Ensure development is compliant with relevant planning rules such as floor space ratio and landscaped area using the handy built-in calculator and percentage functions.
Supercharge your assessment using powerful purpose-built features such as the Light Table, Overlay, Cone of Vision and Recession Plane tools.
Mark up your documents with customisable arrows, clouds, text boxes, sticky notes, images, stamps and more to highlight areas of concern, draw attention to amendments or specify required design changes.
Describing an issue or a required change in words can be time consuming and hard to perfect. Powerful annotation tools help you clearly and effectively convey meaning with applicants and referral agencies, while eliminating unnecessary back and forth communication. The result? Faster dispute resolution and better outcomes.
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 them to the whole document (or only a section) with just a few mouse clicks. Avoid obstructing critical information on each page by automatically placing the stamp on clear space.
Document Compare removes tedium and saves you time by automatically detecting changes and highlighting the amended content. Easily review pages side by side or overlaid for greater context.
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. Document Compare finds those changes and highlights them, so you’ll 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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