Tell us the work you chase. Get a tuned search in one step.
Pick what you do and SiteLens builds a search tuned to that work, sorted by best fit. Change it any time, or build a search from scratch.
- Five persona cards, so you start from the work you actually chase, not a blank filter form
- A quick follow-up where it helps: which trades, which supplier type, new work or appeals
- SiteLens composes a tuned filter recipe (category, scale, stage, recency, value and works tags) and drops you straight into best-fit results
- A "Tuned for" rail you can refine or clear whenever your focus shifts
- Prefer to drive yourself? Build a search from scratch in the same rail
In practice
Material supplier
Pick "material supplier", name your product, and land on the schemes that need it, sorted by fit, in one step.
See the whole planning picture on a single map.
Every UK planning application on one live map. Pan, zoom and click any pin for the full project brief, status and estimated value, without leaving the map.
- Live map updates as you adjust filters: category, status, council, date range and value band
- Smart search: type "approved warehouse extensions near Manchester in the last 6 months" and SiteLens turns it into filters. On by default, on every plan
- Overlay live constraint layers (conservation areas, flood zones, green belt, national parks, SSSIs and AONBs) plus a hot-zones heatmap that shows where application density is climbing
- Click any pin to see the full application detail including project brief and constraint flags
- Postcode and radius search for hyper-local targeting, for example "all major applications within 30 miles of my office"
- Colour-coded pins by category: residential, commercial, industrial and infrastructure
- Shareable search URLs, with every filter combination reflected in the URL
In practice
Developer
Spot residential pipeline concentration in target growth corridors before committing to land acquisition.
Every application classified, valued, tagged, and briefed.
A raw council portal gives you a reference number and a dense, inconsistent description. SiteLens classifies every application automatically, with works tags, a value band, building type and a plain-English project brief, so you know what a scheme is, what it is worth and which trades it needs before you open it.
- Classifies into 8 top-level categories and 120+ subcategories for precise filtering
- Works tags name the trades a scheme implies. 22 tags from groundworks and brickwork to structural repair, roofing, glazing, M&E, drainage and renewables, so a roofer sees roofing jobs, not "all residential"
- Lifecycle stage (outline, reserved matters, full, discharge of conditions, amendment) so suppliers can target schemes at the about-to-build stage rather than reading everything submitted
- Estimated value band (under £10K to £20M+), residential unit count, and a "Major application" flag for schemes at 10+ dwellings, 1,000+ sqm or 1+ hectare
- Plain-English project brief on every record in three sentences: what it is, its scale and stage, and why it matters commercially
In practice
Planning consultant
Filter to "Major residential, 50+ units" across all councils without reading a single raw description.
We read the planning documents and lift the validated figures onto the record.
On major residential, commercial, mixed-use and industrial schemes, SiteLens reads the published application form and the agent’s design and planning statements from the most widely used council portals and lifts the validated figures onto the record. These are the numbers the applicant actually submitted, not an estimate.
- Verified unit count, tenure split, floorspace, site area and parking spaces, lifted from the application form itself
- The named project team where the documents name it: architect, quantity surveyor, structural engineer, M&E consultant and main contractor
- A document inventory for the scheme (flood risk assessment, transport statement, heritage, ecology, drainage and more) where each one signals that a specialist is already engaged
- Biodiversity net gain allocations from the national BNG register, shown on the record when a gain site is allocated to the scheme
- Clearly badged as document-verified on the record, so you always know a validated figure from an estimate
- A direct link to the documents list on the council’s own portal for the full drawings
In practice
Material supplier
Quote on the validated 82-unit figure from the application form, not a guess parsed from a one-line description.
Recent sale prices and past applications, on one record.
Every record carries the site's history: earlier planning applications at the same property matched by its UPRN, the EPC rating where one is held, and recent public contracts won by the companies behind the scheme. Where HM Land Registry holds sales for the postcode, the recent ones show alongside them.
- Planning history at the same property, matched by its UPRN, the unique property identifier
- Land Registry sale prices recorded on the property postcode. Records run to mid 2026, so a recent sale usually shows rather than a 1990s one
- Value uplift after consent, where a recorded sale sits either side of a granted application. Houses only
- EPC current to achievable rating on residential and householder apps, a retrofit signal. Domestic properties only, and free on every plan
- Company activity: recent public contracts won by the companies behind the scheme, matched by Companies House number
In practice
Developer
Check the consent history at a site before you value it. Earlier applications at the same property are matched by UPRN, so refusals and lapsed permissions surface first.
New applications that match your criteria, delivered to your inbox.
Combine any filters (geography, category, value band, constraint designations) and get a daily or weekly digest of every new application that matches. No noise, just the applications that matter.
- Weekly or daily digests on every plan. Hourly delivery on Team
- Any filter combination: category, works tags, stage, status, value band, postcode radius, council, constraint flags
- Add public-sector tenders and awards near your area to the digest, from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender
- Every card carries the project brief, estimated value band, status, and a "Why you're seeing this" line naming the exact criteria it matched
- Save an application as a lead in one click from the email, or jump straight to the council portal
- Explorer: 1 alert. Pro: 5. Team: 20, with hourly delivery.
In practice
Business development manager
"Email me every morning with all new major commercial applications within 40 miles of Bristol."
Know when permission is granted or refused.
Most planning tools tell you when an application is submitted. SiteLens also tells you when it gets a decision: set a status-change alert on any filter combination and get notified each morning when a matching application is approved, refused or withdrawn.
- Status-change alerts fire when any matching application gets a decision
- Use the same filter set as your new-application alert: council, radius, category, keywords
- Approved, refused and withdrawn decisions all trigger notifications
- Shows the previous status alongside the new decision in each email
- Appeal outcomes from the Planning Inspectorate and the devolved administrations sit on the record. Filter to schemes with an appeal, or by outcome
- Get the decision the morning it lands, on every plan including the free tier. Enterprise planning tools charge thousands a year for the same signal
In practice
Specialist subcontractor
"Tell me when householder applications within 10km of my yard get approved." Call within 48 hours, before anyone else has quoted.
Understand approval rates, trends, and activity by council.
The Analytics dashboard turns all application data into decision-rate breakdowns, category distributions and council-level activity charts. Export any slice to CSV for your own analysis or client reporting.
- Approval rate by category, so you see which application types succeed and which face refusal
- Monthly application volume trend, so you spot pipeline acceleration and seasonal patterns
- Top councils by application count, drillable into a pre-filtered search
- Category and decision cross-tab for deep planning strategy insight
- CSV export of analytics summaries for client reports
In practice
Planning consultant
Show a client the 84% approval rate for residential extensions in their target council before submitting.
Know immediately which applications face flood, heritage, or green belt risk.
Every geocoded application is checked against the national planning designation datasets on planning.data.gov.uk, the government’s official planning data service. 24 constraint flags land on the record automatically, with the named designation, so nobody on your team runs a manual constraints lookup again.
- Flood zone 2 and flood zone 3 flags, distinguished on every mapped application
- Conservation area, green belt, national park, AONB and SSSI designations
- Listed-building proximity flags
- Grey belt flagged where brownfield land sits inside the green belt, the parcels the NPPF grey-belt reforms put in play
- Plus 15 further designations: scheduled monuments, world heritage sites, TPOs, article 4 directions, nutrient neutrality catchments, air quality management areas, coal mining risk areas and more
- The named designation on the record (which conservation area, which green belt), not just a yes/no flag
- Filter searches and alert criteria to any combination of constraint flags
In practice
Developer
Screen candidate sites in seconds. The flood zone 2/3 flags sit on every record and every CSV export, so high-risk plots are visible before the site visit.
See who is behind every application and how to reach the firm.
A council portal names the parties, then redacts the contact form. SiteLens fills it back in from the public planning record, the planning documents, matched Companies House records and the firm's own website, each one labelled with where it came from. Every plan shows the agent's name and company; Pro adds the company applicant name, the agent's direct email and phone where published, and the case officer.
- Agent name and company on every plan, as printed on the public decision notice
- Pro reveals the applicant name where it is a company, plus the agent's email, phone and address where published, including contacts our pipeline recovers from firm websites and the agent's own planning statements
- Every contact carries an honest source label ("From the council planning portal", "Published in the planning documents", "General enquiries, from firm website") so you always know what you are dialling
- Council case officer name on Pro. The Companies House number matched to the applicant and agent is on every plan; the registered office, directors and company health behind it are on Pro
- Upgrade prompts only appear where the data actually exists. We never sell you a lock on an empty field
In practice
Specialist subcontractor
Email the agent's practice the week a scheme is validated. The architect who drew it knows exactly who is buying the packages.
Track any developer or agent's entire UK pipeline, then find the people to call.
SiteLens links applicant and agent names to Companies House records, building stable company profiles that aggregate every application regardless of which council processed it or how the name was spelled. Look for more contacts runs a live lookup on any profile. Opening a profile and reading its applications is free on every plan; the Companies House detail, the developer stats and contact lookups are on Pro and Team.
- Developer profile pages showing every application across 380+ UK councils
- Approval rate and most active councils per developer, on Pro and Team. Every application listed on the profile carries its own category, free on every plan
- Registered office, SIC codes and current directors from the live Companies House record, on Pro and Team. The company number matched to each application is free on every plan
- Look for more contacts on any profile: 15 lookups a month on Pro, 40 on Team pooled across seats. On Pro a first partial calendar month is scaled to the days left in it; trials get the full allowance. Anything already published on planning applications is shown free and never uses one
- Honest sourcing on every found contact, from "Published on planning portal" to "Pattern-based, not verified", so we tell you what we know and what we are inferring. Anything you need to weigh before you send is spelled out in words rather than hidden behind a hover
- A people directory on every firm profile: the named individuals evidenced for that company, one directory per company however many councils they file in, each channel labelled with where it came from
- Alert criterion: "notify me when [developer] submits anywhere in the UK"
In practice
Contractor
Find all live and pending schemes from a national housebuilder and approach the right regional office for each.
Public-sector contracts near you, next to the planning pipeline.
SiteLens pulls public-sector construction tenders and awards from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, scoped to your area. This is context for who is active near you, not a claim that a specific scheme is out to tender.
- Awards-first browse page scoped to your last-searched area, with a national toggle
- Nearby public-sector activity within 2km on any application, labelled award or open tender
- Contract awards on a company profile, matched by Companies House number
- Each award links the winner to their company profile, with a path to look for more contacts
- Opt tenders and awards into your alert digest alongside new applications
In practice
Specialist subcontractor
Browse recent public-sector awards near your yard and approach the main contractors who keep winning them.
From "that looks promising" to won, without leaving SiteLens.
Finding the application is half the job; acting on it is the other half. Save any application or developer into your leads pipeline, move it through New, Contacted, Responded and Won, and export the lot with CRM-ready columns.
- Save as lead from search results, the application page, or straight from an alert email
- Save whole companies too: track a developer as a lead and work the relationship, not just one application
- Pipeline stages (new, contacted, responded, quoted, won) with notes on every card, and a follow-up date on application leads that emails you when it falls due
- Email and call actions on each card, using the record's contact details (contact values shown on Pro)
- CSV export with HubSpot and Salesforce-ready columns, on every paid plan
In practice
Specialist subcontractor
Morning routine: open the alert email, save the two worth chasing, call from the card, log the outcome, five minutes.