SiteLens delivers the same UK planning feed Barbour ABI is built on, classified, mapped and daily, self-serve from £29/mo billed annually. No account manager, no contract.
No credit card, no call.
Every UK planning application, across 380+ UK councils, every day. The core project intelligence you need to stay ahead is the same. We just don’t charge enterprise prices for it.
Barbour ABI pricing starts in the low-four-figures-per-year bracket and climbs. SiteLens Pro is £29/mo billed annually and covers most construction supply chain use cases without the account-manager overhead.
Sign up, log in, start searching. No account manager, no weekly check-in, no “just catching up” calls. If that’s the service you want, Barbour is the right choice. Most teams just want the data.
Feature-for-feature, based on publicly available information.
| Feature | SiteLens | Barbour ABI |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | £29/mo billed annually | Four-figure annual |
| Free tier available | ||
| Self-serve sign-up | ||
| Sales call required | ||
| Contract length | Monthly | Annual |
| Daily UK planning feed | ||
| Automatic project classification | ||
| Works tags (classified by trade) | ||
| Constraint flags (flood, green belt, conservation…) | ||
| Reads planning documents (verified figures, named project team) | ||
| Contacts | Verified and source-labelled | Researched |
| Companies House on applications (directors, filing health, charges) | Yes (Pro) | |
| Named project team from planning documents | Yes (Pro, major schemes) | Researched |
| Public tenders & awards (Contracts Finder / Find a Tender) | ||
| Interactive map search | ||
| Daily email alerts | ||
| CSV export | ||
| Phone-researched project details | ||
| Named account manager | ||
| Council analytics |
Barbour ABI runs a team of phone researchers who call ahead of the public planning record to confirm project scope, timelines, budgets and decision-makers. That’s a real service, and it matters when you’re bidding on £50m+ schemes where being two weeks earlier than the competition is worth six figures.
For everything else, SiteLens is a comparable product at a fraction of the price. You get the daily feed of every UK planning application, verified contact details for the agent and the firms behind each scheme drawn from the planning record, the documents and Companies House and labelled by source, and the named project team lifted from the planning documents on major schemes. If you’re a supplier, subcontractor or specialist trade whose decision to quote isn’t gated on a confirmed tender pack, that is the part you actually pay Barbour for, and SiteLens gives it to you self-serve, from £29/mo billed annually.
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The £5,000/yr enterprise platform, without the sales call.
Read →Same price, plus the map, classification, and analytics.
Read →Planning data for the supply chain, not letter campaigns.
Read →Live planning leads for the supply chain, not just land sourcing.
Read →Unlimited application views at £39/mo, not 25 views at £60.
Read →Planning leads for the trades, not site sourcing.
Read →Every council included, classified by trade and value.
Read →Find the work worth chasing, not just letters to post.
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 →Find the projects, not just get listed for tenders.
Read →The 2026 NPPF reforms commit to 1.5 million new homes, mandatory targets and faster decisions, expanding the pipeline for every trade.
Read: What the 2026 NPPF reforms mean for SME construction →