LandInsight (by LandTech) is a land-sourcing platform for developers: ownership data, site workflows and planning views from £60 a month. SiteLens turns live UK planning applications into a daily, trade-classified lead feed from £0, with unlimited application views on every plan, including free. Small developers use it to watch competitor activity and approval rates. Two tools, two jobs, and this page helps you pick the right one.
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LandInsight is built to find and assess sites to buy: ownership boundaries, lookups and a sourcing workflow for developers and land agents. SiteLens is built for the people who win work from what gets submitted: subcontractors, material suppliers and small developers tracking live applications.
LandInsight’s Starter tier (£60/mo) includes 25 planning-application views a month, and unlimited views need the £180/mo Pro tier. SiteLens gives unlimited application views on every plan, including the free tier, with full classification and daily alerts on Pro at £29/mo billed annually (£39 monthly).
SiteLens classifies every new application across 380+ UK councils by trade, project type and estimated value band, then emails the matches each morning. It turns the planning register into a lead feed. LandInsight points the same public data at site acquisition instead.
Feature-for-feature, based on publicly available information.
| Feature | SiteLens | LandInsight |
|---|---|---|
| Core function | Planning-application lead alerts | Land sourcing & ownership data |
| Built for | Construction supply chain | Developers, land sourcers, agents |
| Public, transparent pricing | Included | Included |
| Free forever tier | Included | Not included |
| Starting price | £0 · Pro £29/mo billed annually (£39 monthly) | £60/mo (Starter) |
| Planning-application views | Unlimited on every plan, including free | 25/mo on Starter · unlimited on Pro (£180/mo) |
| AI classification by trade & project type | Included | Not included |
| Plain-English brief + estimated value | Included | Not included |
| Daily alerts filtered to your trade & area | Included | Site-based tracking |
| Map-based search | Included | Included |
| Land ownership boundaries & lookups | Not included | 100–300+ lookups/mo by tier |
| Planning history and EPC at the property | Included | Ownership & title focus |
| Site-sourcing workflow | Not included | Included |
| Contract | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
Unlimited search and detail views on every plan. Pro adds contacts, analytics and up to 5 alerts, £29/mo billed annually or £39 monthly. No contract, cancel anytime. Start on the free forever tier, no card and no time limit.
See pricingFor a developer, yes. They cover different ends of the pipeline.
LandInsight publishes its pricing: the Starter tier is £60/mo including VAT (25 planning-application views and 100 ownership lookups a month) and Pro is £180/mo (unlimited planning views, 300 lookups), with a custom Unlimited tier above that. SiteLens gives unlimited application views on every plan, including free. Pro is £29/mo billed annually, or £39 monthly. Figures are from LandInsight’s own site as at August 2026.
They compete for the same job, sourcing and appraising land, so the honest answer depends on which dataset you lean on. The clearest difference from the outside is how they sell: LandInsight publishes tiered pricing you can read before you commit, while SearchLand is sales-led with no public price list, so you book a demo. LandInsight meters planning-application views by tier (25 a month on Starter); SearchLand leans on a roughly 30-year planning history for due diligence. Trial both on a real site you are appraising, because the comparables and ownership coverage matter more than any feature grid. If you are not buying land at all, neither is the right shape, and that is the case this page is really about.
No. SiteLens monitors and classifies live planning applications as a lead feed for the construction supply chain. It shows the planning history at a property and its EPC record, but it has no ownership, title or site-acquisition workflow. For that job, LandInsight is purpose-built and the better fit.
Both draw on the public planning register. The difference is shape: LandInsight presents planning history on sites you are assessing, with view caps by tier. SiteLens ingests every new application across 380+ UK councils daily, classifies it by trade and value, and pushes matches to you, with unlimited views on every plan.
Pick LandInsight if your job is acquiring land. Ownership boundaries and lookups, site sourcing, and the workflow for taking a site from “spotted on a map” to an approach letter are what it is purpose-built for, and SiteLens does none of that. SiteLens has no ownership or title data. It does show the public property record: the planning history at a property and its EPC record.
The trade-off is the price of that depth: planning-application views are capped at 25 a month on the £60 Starter tier, and removing the cap means the £180/mo Pro tier. If what you actually want is to know which new applications mean work for your trade, and to be told the morning they land, that is a narrower job, and SiteLens does it self-serve from £0.
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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 →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 →