Compare SiteLens to other planning tools
How SiteLens stacks up against the enterprise platforms, land-sourcing tools and lead marketplaces. The same daily UK planning feed across 380+ councils, classified by trade, feature for feature and on price.
From £29/mo billed annually (£39 monthly). Free to start, no credit card.
The UK planning-data landscape splits into a few groups. Enterprise platforms like Glenigan and Barbour ABI sell project intelligence on annual contracts, typically £5,000 to £10,000 a year, through a sales team. Land-sourcing tools such as LandInsight, Nimbus Maps and SearchLand are built for site acquisition and appraisal. Planning-lead products like Planning Pipe, PlanTrack and BuildAlert surface new applications, and pay-per-lead marketplaces like Checkatrade and MyBuilder sell homeowner jobs.
SiteLens sits apart from all of them: 380+ councils updated daily, every application AI-classified by trade and value, with the applicant and agent named on the record, and Companies House data where the applicant is a company. Self-serve from £29/mo billed annually (£39 monthly), no contract and no sales call. The comparisons below break each competitor down feature by feature and on price. For a broader editorial overview, read Planning data tools compared.
What you get that the cheap tools don’t
Phone numbers our enrichment finds are checked as correctly formed UK numbers, and we run a deliverability check across the firm emails we hold. We don’t claim every address has been checked: catch-all domains accept anything and can’t be tested, and addresses taken from the planning record are shown as published rather than verified. The contacts our enrichment finds carry a badge saying what we actually know about each one. Nothing else at £39 a month does that. The tools that verify contacts cost thousands a year.
The emails and phones we show are business contacts: the agent, architect or consultancy on the application. We do not buy or upload contact lists, and our enrichment only ever looks for a business contact, the details a firm publishes so people can reach it. Where the register names the applicant with a personal title, we strip the email and phone before serving. Names and postal addresses are what the council already publishes on its own register, so you get those either way, which keeps your outreach aimed at businesses.
Firm name, split address fields, email and phone, and where each one came from. Drop it straight into a mail merge. All UK, no download caps.
Every comparison
The £5,000/yr enterprise platform, without the sales call.
Read →Same daily UK planning feed, without the daily phone call.
Read →Whole-UK coverage from £29/mo billed annually, plus the map and classification.
Read →Planning data for the supply chain, not letter campaigns.
Read →Live planning leads for the supply chain, where SearchLand does land sourcing.
Read →Unlimited application views on every plan, not 25 at £60.
Read →Planning leads for the trades, not site sourcing.
Read →Every council included, classified by trade and value.
Read →Leads for your trade, not alerts about your neighbours.
Read →Find the work worth chasing, where BuildAlert posts letters.
Read →Construction leads from planning, not investment data.
Read →Planning-stage projects, not shared homeowner leads.
Read →Projects at planning stage, not pay-per-lead homeowner jobs.
Read →Reach the project before it reaches a tender list.
Read →Common questions
- What is the best alternative to Glenigan or Barbour ABI?
- SiteLens gives you the same daily feed of UK planning applications across 380+ councils, AI-classified by trade and project value, from £29/mo billed annually (£39 monthly), with no £5,000 contract and no sales call. See the detailed Glenigan and Barbour ABI comparisons below for a feature-by-feature breakdown.
- Is there a cheaper planning-data tool?
- Independent guides and customer reports put typical enterprise planning subscriptions at £5,000 to £10,000 a year, with entry packages from around £1,000 and large multi-module deals reaching £50,000. SiteLens is self-serve from £29/mo billed annually (£39 monthly), with a free tier to start and no credit card required.
- Which planning tool is built for trades and subcontractors?
- SiteLens classifies every application by trade and value, so suppliers and subcontractors see only the work worth chasing. That is a different job from land-sourcing tools (built for site acquisition) and from pay-per-lead marketplaces (homeowner jobs, not planning-stage projects). The comparisons below spell out which is which.
- Can I try SiteLens before paying?
- Yes. The free Explorer tier gives you unlimited search and application views plus one daily alert, with no card. You upgrade only when the data starts generating leads.
- How does SiteLens compare on coverage?
- Coverage is 380+ UK councils, updated daily, rather than a regional subset. Applications are classified by trade, project type and value, with the applicant and agent named on the record, and Companies House data where the applicant is a company.