Planning Signal alternative

Planning Signal Leads is £49 a month + VAT. SiteLens Pro is £39 a month, with every UK planning application sorted by trade.

Planning Signal: Free plan with search up to 1km. Research £29, Leads £49 and Conditions £99 a month + VAT, or £290, £490 and £990 a year + VAT. No contracts or cancellation fees.
SiteLens: £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually, for 380+ UK councils at any distance, with contacts and 15 lookups a month on Pro, and a free plan to start.

Checked 21 October 2026.

Planning Signal has a free plan with search up to 1km, then Research at £29 and Leads at £49 a month + VAT. SiteLens sorts every new application across 380+ UK councils by trade, project type and stage, on a free plan with no time limit.

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Which should you choose?

Choose SiteLens if you sell to builders, developers and their design teams and want every new application in your area sorted by your trade, with Companies House checks on the firms you want to chase, contacts on Pro and public tenders nearby, for £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually.

Choose Planning Signal if your customers are homeowners and you want keyword leads with a directory profile homeowners search, or you are a consultant who needs alerts on decision-notice conditions.

What SiteLens does better

Sorted by trade, not just keywords

SiteLens tags new applications with the trades they need, their project type and their stage, and each alert says why it matched. Planning Signal Research filters by application type, route and an estimated number of homes, and Leads matches the keywords, project types, area and scheme size you set.

Trade, value and area filters on the free plan

SiteLens Free searches 380+ councils at any distance, opens every application and runs one alert filtered by trade, value and area, with no card. Planning Signal Free searches up to 1km, lets you browse councils and filter their pages by date and status, and has unlimited place alerts. Its advanced filters, text search and filtered alerts start on Research at £29 + VAT.

Who is behind it, for £39 a month

Every SiteLens plan shows Companies House numbers, public tenders and awards near each site, and figures read from the planning documents. Pro adds firm names, source-labelled contacts and 15 contact lookups a month for £39 a month. Planning Signal puts lead details on Leads, at £49 + VAT.

SiteLens vs Planning Signal, feature by feature

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

Feature	SiteLens	Planning Signal
Free forever plan	Unlimited search at any distance, 1 filtered alert, 10 saved leads	Search up to 1km, browse councils, unlimited place alerts
Paid plans	Pro £39/mo, Team £99/mo (up to 5 users)	Research £29, Leads £49, Conditions £99 a month + VAT
Billed yearly	Pro £29/mo, Team £79/mo	£290, £490 or £990 a year + VAT
Free trial of a paid plan	7 days of Pro, no card	None listed on its website plans (a free 100-record API demo, once)
Contract	Monthly or annual, no minimum term, cancel any time	Monthly or yearly, no contracts or cancellation fees
Council coverage	380+ UK councils, collected every night	400+ councils in the last 30 days
Classification	By trade, project type and stage, with a plain-English brief	Application type, route (full, outline, prior approval and more) and an estimated number of homes, filterable on Research; keywords, project types, area and scheme size on Leads
Trade tags	22 works tags, from groundworks to renewables	Keywords you set, plus pages for 14 trades
Estimated value bands	Estimated value bands, each naming its basis	Not listed on its site
Constraint flags	24 flags on every plan, filterable in search and alerts	About 25 designations on its free application pages, from flood and tree preservation orders to green belt, heritage and ecology
Map search	Yes, with six constraint layers, EPC and a street-level imagery link	Yes, with site outlines
Integrations	No Slack, Teams or webhooks; CSV exports with HubSpot and Salesforce columns on Pro, and an API plan	Slack, Microsoft Teams and webhooks, from Research
Approval rates and decision times	Free public council pages, and full analytics on Pro	Approval-rate context on every result
Alerts	1 free, 5 on Pro, 20 each on Team, daily or weekly	Unlimited place alerts, 10 filtered (Research), 100 keyword (Leads)
Decision alerts	On every plan, including free	Watch 1 application free, 20 on Research, 100 on Leads
Contacts	Source-labelled business contacts, 15 lookups a month (Pro)	Applicant, agent firm and business contact (Leads)
Companies House match	Numbers free, profile on Pro	Not on its application pages or API fields; company number and status on many of its free directory profiles
Tenders and contract awards	Near each site and in alerts, plus public contracts ending in the next 12 months	Not listed on its site
Alerts on decision-notice conditions	Not included	Conditions plan, £99/mo + VAT
Leads pipeline	On every plan (10 saved leads free, unlimited on Pro)	On Leads: contacted, quoted, won or lost
CSV export	Pro 5,000 rows a month, Team 10,000	Research and above, up to a whole council
Team plan	Up to 5 users, one shared pipeline	Team accounts in its terms, no published price
API	API plan from £149/mo, billed annually	From £49/mo + VAT, billed monthly; 1,000 records a month included on Leads

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Search 380+ UK councils free, with no card. When you want the names behind the schemes, try Pro free for 7 days. After that, Pro is £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually, with no contract.

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When you should still pick Planning Signal

Pick Planning Signal if your customers are homeowners and you want keyword leads with the agent firm’s business contact and a free directory profile that homeowners search. Research, at £29 a month + VAT, costs less than SiteLens Pro month to month if you only need search within 10km, advanced filters and whole-council CSV export.

Pick it too if you are a specialist consultant. Its Conditions plan alerts you when a council attaches a condition in your discipline, which SiteLens does not do. It also sells Portfolio Monitor, which watches a list of your own sites for new applications nearby, and its Leads plan includes 1,000 API records a month, with API-only plans from £49 a month + VAT, where SiteLens API plans are billed annually.

For trades and suppliers who sell to builders and developers, SiteLens sorts every new application across 380+ UK councils by the trades it needs, with contacts and 15 lookups a month on Pro at £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually.

Frequently asked

How much does Planning Signal cost?

The free plan has search up to 1km and unlimited alerts for postcodes, towns and councils. Research is £29, Leads £49 and Conditions £99 a month, or £290, £490 and £990 a year, all + VAT. There is no contract. Figures are from planningsignal.co.uk/pricing and its compare-plans help page as at 21 October 2026.

What does Planning Signal do that SiteLens does not?

Its Conditions plan reads the conditions on decision notices and alerts specialist consultants by phrase or discipline. It also offers unlimited free place alerts, a directory where homeowners find trades, Slack, Microsoft Teams and webhook integrations, and an API from £49 a month + VAT, with 1,000 records a month on Leads.

What does SiteLens do that Planning Signal does not?

Every plan shows Companies House numbers for the firms on an application and public tenders near each site. Value bands are estimated and name their basis. Planning Signal’s application pages and API fields show none of these; its free directory gives company numbers for many of the firms it lists. SiteLens Pro has a 7-day free trial with no card.

Do both cover the whole UK?

Both say they cover England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Planning Signal says 400+ councils sent it new applications in the last 30 days, and that its coverage is strongest in England. SiteLens collects every new application across 380+ UK councils every night.

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