Planning information on the map: local plan, municipal plan and subarea
Select a parcel on the map and view the applicable planning rules under the Plans tab: municipal plan framework, local plan and subarea with building rules such as building percentage, floors and height. Open the plan document in the built-in viewer and see which values were AI-extracted.
When you select a cadastral parcel on the map, Arcili gathers the planning rules that apply in one place: the municipal plan framework, the local plan and any subarea — with the concrete building rules such as building percentage, max floors and height. You can open the plan document directly and see which values were extracted with AI from the document itself.
1Select a parcel and open Plans
Open the map via Map in the side menu. Find the property using the search field at the top:
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Click the parcel boundary on the map to select it. In the side panel, switch to the Plans tab:
If you haven't selected a parcel yet, the tab shows Click a cadastral parcel and to view planning details. Once a parcel is selected, its number appears at the top under Cadastral no. along with the cadastral district.
Planning details are fetched for exactly the parcel you click. Click a new location and the panel updates automatically to the new property.
2Read the municipal plan framework
At the top you'll see Municipal plan framework — the overarching framework the municipality has set for the area. The card shows the plan name and number plus key details:
General use — Residential Municipality — Copenhagen Plan district — Adoption date · Effective date Zone status — Urban zone
If the framework does not regulate the building scale itself, the card states: The plan does not regulate scale provisions within the framework area.
3Read the local plan and building rules
Below the framework you'll find the Local plan. If several plans cover the parcel, each is shown separately — thematic plans are labelled Thematic local plan. When a local plan sets concrete building rules, they appear under the heading Building regulation:
The section may also include Max volume (m³/m²), Max dwelling units, Parking requirement, Open space and Max commercial floor area. Additional sections — Subdivision and Environment classes — appear when the plan regulates them. If a rule type is missing entirely, the card states it explicitly, e.g. The plan does not regulate subdivision within the framework area.
4Understand AI-extracted values
The planning register does not always contain the concrete figures. When Arcili has supplemented a value by reading it from the plan document itself, the section is marked AI-extracted, and each supplemented value gets a marker next to it.
Values with the AI marker come from the text of the plan document, not from the structured register. Always verify them against the original plan before relying on the figures.
5Open the plan document
If the plan has an attached document, an button appears at the top of the plan card. Click it to open the plan PDF in Arcili's built-in document viewer — without leaving the map. For local plans, an AI chat is also activated in the viewer, so you can ask questions directly about the plan's content.
6View subareas
If the parcel falls within a subarea of a local plan, Subarea is shown at the bottom with its own number and a reference to the local plan (Local plan {no}). The subarea can carry its own, stricter building rules — Max building percentage, Max floors, Max building height and Max dwelling units — that apply to exactly the part of the plan area where the parcel sits.
To see the geographic extent of the plans on the map itself, enable the plan layers in the Layers panel — e.g. Local plans, Municipal plan frameworks and Subareas, each with variants for Proposal and Repealed.