Glenigan alternative

Glenigan quotes after a demo. We publish ours: £39 a month.

Glenigan: No public price. Reviews from 2024 quote renewals of £3,500 to £6,800 a year. Bigger contracts run higher: a 2024 government contract for data, reports and analyst access was valued at £60,000 for one year. Contracts renew 12 months at a time unless you email 90 days’ notice.
SiteLens: £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually, with no contract and a free plan to start. The smaller 2024 renewal above, £3,500, would pay for more than 7 years of Pro at £39 a month, or nearly 3 years of Team for up to 5 people.

Checked 21 October 2026.

Every new application across 380+ UK councils, sorted by the trades it needs and mapped, with your matches in your inbox each morning. Built for subcontractors, suppliers and consultants who want the work in their patch without an annual contract.

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Which should you choose?

Choose SiteLens if you are a subcontractor, supplier, installer or consultant who wants the new applications in your area sorted by your trade, mapped and emailed to you each morning, with Companies House checks on the firms you want to chase. Start free, then £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually, with no contract.

Choose Glenigan if you bid on large projects and will use what its 160 researchers add by phone: researcher-confirmed values, bidder lists, NBS specifications and direct contacts for decision-makers, on a contract that renews a year at a time.

What SiteLens does better

Sorted by your trade

22 works tags, from groundworks to renewables, mark the trades each application needs, so a roofer’s alert holds roofing jobs. Glenigan files projects under its own sectors, such as Education, Health and Private Housing.

Who is behind it, checked

Companies House numbers are matched to applicants, agents and contractors on every plan. Pro names the firms, opens the directors, people with significant control and filing health, and adds the agent’s published email and phone, plus 15 contact lookups a month.

Site checks on the record

24 planning constraint flags, six of them drawn on the map, plus EPC ratings and a street-level imagery link on every plan, with the planning history at the address and Land Registry sale prices on Pro. You can judge the site before you pick up the phone.

SiteLens vs Glenigan leads, feature by feature

Each Glenigan entry comes from its own website unless the cell says otherwise. Checked 21 October 2026.

Feature	SiteLens	Glenigan
Price	£39/mo, or £29/mo billed annually	No public price; 2024 reviews quote renewals of £3,500 to £6,800/yr
Try before you pay	Free plan with no time limit, plus 7 days of Pro, no card	A free search showing 50 projects, and a demo on request
Contract	Monthly or annual, no minimum term, cancel any time	Term set in your order, then renews for 12 months unless you email 90 days’ notice; fees can rise by up to RPI + 5% a year
Sign-up	Self-serve, under 2 minutes	A demo, then a quote
Users	Pro for one; Team for up to 5 at £99/mo, or £79/mo billed annually	Five logins as standard
Planning applications	Every new application across 380+ UK councils, collected every night	Every UK and Ireland application, harvested by AI; “Up to 3 Weeks Earlier Insight via planning data from the Planning Portal”
Research by phone	No. Built from public records	160 researchers, 1 million+ calls a year
Automatic project classification	Included	Yes, AI mines each application
Trade tags	22 works tags, from groundworks to renewables	Own sectors, such as Education, Health and Private Housing
Plain-English search	Included	Yes, AI Search and the Rise AI chat
Planning documents	Read for figures and the named project team, with the document list	AI reads the documents; files to download
Project values	Estimated value bands, each naming its basis	Researcher-confirmed where possible, else estimated with BCIS
Contact details	Agent’s published email and phone, the named project team and 15 lookups a month (Pro)	Direct phones, emails and LinkedIn profiles for decision-makers
Company data	One page per firm: its applications, decision record and who it works with (Pro)	Company activity, relationships and procurement
Companies House match	Yes, on every plan (directors, accounts and charges on Pro)	Not mentioned on its website
Tenders and contract awards	Near each site and in alerts, plus public contracts ending in the next 12 months	Tender and award stages, with bidders researched
Alerts on new applications	Daily or weekly email by trade, area and keyword; hourly on Team	Real-time email updates on new projects and on projects you track
Decision alerts	On every plan, including free	Updates on projects you track
Start-on-site signals	An “About to start on site” alert, and building-control starts	Stages from early planning to contract award
Maps and site data	Map search; 24 planning constraint flags, six drawn on the map; EPC and a street-level imagery link; history at the address on Pro	Map search by drawing polygons on maps or by sales territory, with drive-time planning
Pipeline and exports	Built-in leads pipeline; CSV with HubSpot and Salesforce columns (Pro)	In-app sales pipeline; data exports and mailing lists
API	API plan from £149/mo, billed annually	REST API that delivers leads into your CRM
Market analytics	Approval rates, decision times and volumes by council (Pro)	Forecasts, monthly reports and league tables
Specification data	No	NBS material specifications on thousands of projects
Mobile app	No app; works in any phone browser	Glenigan app, and Hubexo Reach for smaller firms
Getting started	Six guided starting points by trade or role, built into the app	Account management and training for every customer

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When you should still pick Glenigan

Glenigan’s 160 researchers make more than a million calls a year, adding confirmed values, bidder lists and direct contacts for decision-makers, and it sees some planning applications up to three weeks early through the Planning Portal. It also tracks projects that never need planning, links projects to NBS material specifications, and has iPhone and Android apps, an API that delivers leads into your CRM and, since September 2026, the Glenigan Rise platform with AI search and chat (some modules, such as Sales Scout and Project Insights, are sold as add-ons). If you bid on large projects across the UK and Ireland, that research is what the fee pays for.

If your work is the steady flow of extensions, fit-outs, conversions and new builds that most trades live on, you do not need a researcher to phone them. You need the new applications in your patch, sorted by your trade and in your inbox each morning, and that is SiteLens Pro at £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually.

For the wider market, read Glenigan alternatives compared, how the main planning data tools compare or Glenigan vs Barbour ABI on prices and renewal terms.

Frequently asked

How much does Glenigan cost?

Glenigan publishes no price and quotes after a demo. Reviews from 2024 quote renewals of £3,500 to £6,800 a year, and a 2024 Department for Transport contract was valued at £60,000 for one year. Every customer gets five user logins, and its terms let fees rise each year by up to RPI plus 5%.

Does Glenigan auto-renew?

Yes. Its contracts renew 12 months at a time unless you email at least 90 days’ notice. Two 2024 reviews describe customers billed for another year after giving notice late, or by letter rather than email. SiteLens is monthly or annual, cancelled from the dashboard, with a 30-day money-back guarantee on your first annual Pro or Team payment.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Glenigan?

Yes. SiteLens sorts every new application across 380+ UK councils by trade and emails your matches each morning. Pro is £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually, so Glenigan’s smaller 2024 renewal, £3,500, would cover more than 7 years of Pro. The free plan has no time limit, and Pro has a 7-day trial with no card.

What do Glenigan leads include, compared with SiteLens?

Glenigan leads are projects its researchers track from early planning to contract award, with values, bidders and decision-maker contacts. SiteLens leads are new planning applications across 380+ UK councils, tagged with the trades they need, with estimated value bands that name their basis, constraint flags and Companies House matches. Pro adds names, published contacts and contact lookups.

Does Glenigan have a free trial?

Its “Free trial” button opens a demo request, and its free project search shows 50 results before asking you to book a demo. SiteLens has a free plan with no time limit, and a 7-day Pro trial with no card that you start yourself after signing up.

See it before you pay a penny.

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