SiteLens tracks new UK planning applications across 380+ councils, classified by trade and value, mapped, with agent and firm contacts, nearby public tenders and market analytics. From £29 a month billed annually. Self-serve, no contract.
No credit card, no call.
Glenigan contracts typically run at £5,000 to £10,000 a year on a 12-month auto-renewing agreement. SiteLens starts at £29/month billed annually, with no auto-renewing lock-in. Cancel any time from your account.
Glenigan gates its product behind a demo. You can’t see the pricing or the interface without talking to an account executive first. SiteLens is self-serve. Sign up, explore, and upgrade only when it pays for itself.
Month-to-month billing, cancellation button in the dashboard. If SiteLens isn’t working for your business after 30 days, you’re free to leave.
Feature-for-feature, based on publicly available information.
| Feature | SiteLens | Glenigan |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | £29/mo billed annually | £5,000+/yr |
| Free tier available | ||
| Self-serve sign-up | ||
| Sales call required | ||
| Contract length | Monthly | 12 months |
| UK council coverage | 380+ councils | Full UK |
| Daily updates | ||
| Automatic project classification | ||
| Works tags (classified by trade) | ||
| Constraint flags (flood, green belt, conservation) | ||
| Reads planning documents (verified figures and project-team firms) | ||
| Companies House on applications (status, directors, accounts health) | ||
| Developer profiles (track record and approval rate) | ||
| Public tenders and awards (Contracts Finder / Find a Tender) | Near each site and in alerts | |
| Market analytics (approval rates, decision times, value trends) | ||
| Property history (EPC, price paid, planning history by UPRN) | ||
| Plain-English search | ||
| Built-in leads pipeline and CRM export | ||
| Contacts | Verified and source-labelled | Phone-researched |
| Interactive map search | ||
| CSV export | ||
| Email alerts | ||
| Status-change alerts (decision notifications) | ||
| Phone-researched bid intelligence | ||
| Named account manager | ||
| Setup time | Under 2 minutes | Days (demo + contract) |
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Read: How to find planning applications in your area →Glenigan doesn’t publish pricing. You book a demo and get a quote. From industry guides and customer reports, typical subscriptions run at £5,000 to £10,000 a year, and buyers of the two big platforms (Glenigan and Barbour ABI) report spending anywhere from around £1,000 to £50,000 a year depending on regions and modules. Standard packages are 12-month subscriptions with around five user logins.
Two things to check before you sign, both recurring themes in public Glenigan reviews: the 12-month contract renews automaticallyunless cancelled with roughly 90 days’ notice, and several reviewers report getting no renewal reminder. If you’re comparing quotes, read the renewal clause as carefully as the price.
SiteLens publishes its pricing: a free-forever Explorer tier, Pro at £39/mo (or £29/mo billed annually, saving 25%), Team at £99/mo (£79/mo billed annually). Monthly plans cancel from the dashboard, any time. For a wider view of what each tool in the market is built for, read Barbour ABI vs Glenigan vs SiteLens: which planning data tool?
There’s no public price list. Quotes come via a demo. Reported subscriptions typically land between £5,000 and £10,000 a year, with larger packages costing substantially more, on 12-month subscriptions normally including around five user logins.
Public reviews repeatedly describe automatic 12-month renewal requiring roughly 90 days’ notice to cancel, often without a reminder. Check the current contract terms before signing. SiteLens is monthly or annual, with a cancellation button in the dashboard.
Yes. A self-serve tier now exists between £29 (billed annually) and £90 a month. SiteLens covers applications across 380+ UK councils, classifies them by trade and project type, and sends daily alerts from £29/mo billed annually, with a free-forever tier to test it on your patch first.
On the very largest schemes, Glenigan confirms budgets, timelines and decision-makers directly with the developer and puts a researcher-checked valuation on the project. If your business depends on that for £10m+ bids, Glenigan earns its price. For everything else SiteLens is a comparable product at a fraction of the cost. Every application classified, valued and constraint-flagged, agent and firm contacts verified and labelled by source, matched Companies House records, and public-sector tenders and awards from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender near each site and in your alerts. What SiteLens does not do is contact private individuals.
SiteLens covers almost everything Glenigan does, at a fraction of the price. There is one exception. Glenigan employs phone researchers who chase leads beyond the public planning register, calling developers, architects and main contractors to confirm project timelines, budgets and decision-makers, and it puts researcher-verified valuations on the largest schemes. That is a real edge on the biggest schemes. If your business depends on bid intelligence for £10m+ projects in the top-200 main contractor tier, that’s worth the ticket price.
For everything else, SiteLens is a comparable product at a fraction of the price. Every planning application, every council, every day, classified, valued and constraint-flagged, with the named project team and figures read straight from the council documents on major schemes. You get verified contact details for the agent and the firms behind each scheme, drawn from the public planning record, the planning documents and Companies House and labelled by source, plus public-sector tenders and awards near each site and approval-rate and decision-time analytics across the board. All of it searchable, exportable and alertable for the many UK construction businesses that can’t justify £5,000 a year on a platform gated behind a sales call. If you’re a subcontractor, regional supplier, specialist trade or small developer, SiteLens is built for you.
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Same daily UK planning feed, without the daily phone 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.
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