Planning Pipe is a UK construction lead service: it pairs planning applications with named client, architect and agent contacts so you can cold-approach them, from £44.95 a month plus VAT regionally and £89.95 plus VAT for the whole UK. SiteLens turns the same live planning register into a daily, trade-classified lead feed with estimated value bands, from £0 and £39/mo on Pro. Two tools, two jobs, and this page helps you pick the right one.
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SiteLens is £39/mo on Pro, or £29/mo billed annually, with a free-forever tier that needs no card and unlimited application views on every plan. Planning Pipe starts at £44.95/mo +VAT for two regions and £89.95/mo +VAT for the whole UK, so national coverage is more than double the SiteLens Pro price once VAT is added. Planning Pipe does offer 10 free sample leads to try.
SiteLens classifies every new UK application by trade, project type and estimated value band, and writes a plain-English brief, so you open the handful that fit your trade instead of scrolling the whole register. You can search in plain English too, for example approved warehouse extensions near Manchester in the last 6 months, and SiteLens turns it into filters. Planning Pipe lets you filter by sector, value and location but does not auto-classify by trade or estimate a value band on each record. That classification is the difference between a raw feed and a qualified lead feed.
SiteLens emails the new applications that match your trade and area each morning and lets you search them on a UK map filtered by category, value and proximity. Planning Pipe delivers daily alerts and downloads too, with national subscribers able to get daily updates, but its strength is the contact data attached to each project rather than map-based qualifying.
Feature-for-feature, based on publicly available information.
| Feature | SiteLens | Planning Pipe |
|---|---|---|
| Core function | Trade-classified planning-application alerts | Construction leads with contact details |
| Built for | Construction supply chain | Contractors and suppliers chasing leads |
| Public, transparent pricing | ||
| Free forever tier | 10 free sample leads | |
| Starting price | £0 · Pro £29/mo billed annually | from £44.95/mo +VAT (regional) |
| Whole-UK price | £39/mo (£29 annual), unlimited views | from £89.95/mo +VAT (national) |
| Contact details on applications | Published + enriched, source-labelled (Pro) | Researched contacts on each lead |
| AI classification by trade & project type | ||
| Plain-English search (natural language) | ||
| Companies House on applications (directors, filing health, charges) | Yes (Pro) | |
| Public tenders & awards (Contracts Finder / Find a Tender) | ||
| Estimated project value band | ||
| Reads planning documents (verified figures, named project team) | ||
| Constraint flags (flood, green belt, conservation…) | ||
| Daily alerts filtered to your trade & area | Daily alerts, manual filters | |
| Map-based search | List-first | |
| Contract | Monthly or annual | Month-by-month after initial term |
Unlimited views, alerts and analytics on Pro, £29/mo billed annually. If you need more seats, Team adds up to 5 users, hourly alerts and larger CSV exports.
See pricingFor some teams, yes, because their strengths differ. SiteLens tells you which new applications are worth pursuing for your trade, classified by project type and value and pushed to you each morning, and surfaces the published and enriched contacts for the ones you pick, with a source label on every one. Planning Pipe attaches researched contact details to every record wholesale. Use SiteLens to qualify, prioritise and reach the parties behind your best-fit schemes, and add Planning Pipe if your motion depends on a mailmerge-ready contact list for everything.
Planning Pipe publishes its pricing. Regional cover for two UK regions starts from £44.95 a month plus VAT, and whole-UK national cover starts from £89.95 a month plus VAT. Its standard products list at £54.95/mo +VAT regional (£65.94 inc VAT) and £109.95/mo +VAT national (£131.94 inc VAT), on a month-by-month basis after the initial term. SiteLens is £0 on the free tier and £39/mo for Pro, or £29/mo billed annually, with unlimited application views.
Yes. You get verified contact details from several sources, each labelled by where it came from. Every plan shows the agent's name and company. Pro adds the applicant's name, the agent's direct email and phone where the council or the firm publishes them, and the case officer. On major schemes SiteLens reads the planning documents to lift the named project team, architect, quantity surveyor, engineers and main contractor, and Find contacts runs Companies House and firm-website lookups on any developer profile. What SiteLens does not do is phone-research a contact for every record. Planning Pipe attaches researched contact details to each project as its signature feature, so if a ready-made contact list on every lead is your motion, Planning Pipe is purpose-built for it.
SiteLens automatically classifies every new UK application by trade and project type, estimates a value band, and writes a plain-English brief, then emails the matches for your trade and area each morning and lets you search them on a UK map. Planning Pipe lets you filter by sector, value and location but does not auto-classify by trade or estimate a value band on each record, and it is list-first rather than map-first.
If your sales motion runs on volume cold outreach, Planning Pipe is built for exactly that. It attaches named client, developer, architect and agent contact details, telephone and email, to each project and lets you download them in mailmerge format. SiteLens surfaces the contacts that the public record and the firms themselves publish, every one labelled with its source, and finds more on demand through Companies House and firm-website lookups, but it does not phone-research a contact for every record. If a researched, mailmerge-ready list on every lead is the whole point for you, Planning Pipe is the better fit and we will not pretend otherwise.
Planning Pipe also leans into the construction-sales workflow, with bespoke delivery formats, decided-plans data and multiple users on its bespoke tiers, plus whole-UK coverage on one national subscription. SiteLens is the sharper qualification tool: it classifies, values and constraint-flags the work first, then helps you reach the people behind the schemes actually worth chasing.
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Read →Same daily UK planning feed, without the daily phone call.
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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