SmartSustain

// architecture

// overview

Built for planning assessors across five West Yorkshire councils (Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Calderdale, Kirklees). A scoring engine computes 0 to 100 indices across environmental, economic, social, and regulatory pillars for 700+ candidate sites, with an explain endpoint that breaks down every calculation for auditability and an LLM-backed assistant that answers natural-language questions about a site, grounded in the underlying data. Automated planning-grade PDF report generation cut manual reporting effort by roughly 70%.

• ·Innovate UK funded platform used by planning assessors across five West Yorkshire councils.
• ·Scoring engine computes 0 to 100 indices across environmental, economic, social, and regulatory pillars for 700+ candidate sites.
• ·An explain endpoint breaks down every calculation behind a score, for planning-grade auditability.
• ·An LLM-backed assistant answers natural-language questions about a site, grounded in the underlying data.
• ·A data loader unifies millions of postcode records from government datasets into a MongoDB geospatial layer, with geospatial indexing and a Redis caching layer optimising expensive spatial computations.
• ·Automated planning-grade PDF report generation cut manual reporting effort by roughly 70%.
• ·Owned all infrastructure and DevOps: AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront), TLS, CI/CD, from first commit to production.