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. Every new account includes a one-time 7-day Pro trial.
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 anytime 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 | No public price; £5,000 to £10,000/yr typical |
| Free tier available | Included | Not included |
| Self-serve sign-up | Included | Not included |
| Sales call required | Not included | Included |
| Contract length | Monthly | 12 months |
| UK council coverage | 380+ councils | Full UK |
| Daily updates | Included | Included |
| Automatic project classification | Included | Not included |
| Works tags (classified by trade) | Included | Not included |
| Constraint flags (flood, green belt, conservation) | Included | Not included |
| Reads planning documents (verified figures and project-team firms) | Included | Not included |
| Companies House on applications (status, directors, accounts health) | Included | Included |
| Developer profiles (track record and approval rate) | Included | Included |
| Public tenders and awards (Contracts Finder / Find a Tender) | Near each site and in alerts | Included |
| Researcher-sourced tender & bidder intelligence (incl. private schemes) | Public-sector only | Included |
| Market analytics (approval rates, decision times, value trends) | Included | Included |
| Property history (EPC, planning history by UPRN) | Included | Not included |
| Plain-English search | Included | Not included |
| Built-in leads pipeline and CRM export | Included | Not included |
| Contacts | Source-labelled, from the public record | Phone-researched |
| Interactive map search | Included | Included |
| CSV export | Included | Included |
| Email alerts | Included | Included |
| Status-change alerts (decision notifications) | Included | On tracked projects |
| Phone-researched bid intelligence | Not included | Included |
| Named account manager | Not included | Included |
| 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 for the smallest regional packages to £50,000 a year depending on 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 automatically unless 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 from £29/mo billed annually (£39 monthly), Team from £79/mo billed annually (£99 monthly). Monthly plans cancel from the dashboard, any time. For a wider view of what each tool in the market is built for, read Best planning data tool 2026: what each really costs or the full market rundown in Glenigan alternatives compared.
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. SiteLens covers applications across 380+ UK councils, classifies them by trade and project type, and sends daily alerts. Pro is £29 a month billed annually (£39 monthly), and the free-forever tier includes one daily alert so you can 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 labelled with where each one came from, 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. That reach includes private-sector tenders and contract awards that never appear on a government procurement portal, and 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 contact details for the agent and the firms behind each scheme, drawn from the public planning record, the planning documents and Companies House, each one labelled with where it came from and how reliable it is, 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 →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 →The 2026 NPPF reforms commit to 1.5 million new homes, mandatory targets and faster decisions. That widens the pipeline for every trade.
Read: What the 2026 NPPF reforms mean for SME construction →