Planninghandbook

Planning Handbook (DataHub) — A subscription UK planning-data search service combining three joined layers: planning application records from roughly 160-170 named local authority areas spanning England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; building control data for a subset of those same authorities; and Land Registry information covering the whole of England and Wales. Delivery features are search by relevance, location, date and keyword; saved searches; spreadsheet download; map view; email data alerts on new records; and mail-merged letter generation to applicants — the last being a dist…

Planninghandbook offers (Alternative, Fundamental, Geospatial, Reference) — Not stated as a record count. Authority coverage is substantial but incomplete — the published list runs to roughly 160-170 named local authority areas, against roughly 320-plus local planning authorities in the UK, so coverage is plausibly around half the national universe and the vendor explicitly frames it as expanding with areas available on request. Building control covers a smaller subset ('some building control data'), while Land Registry is complete for England and Wales. Record depth per authority is unpublished and should be assumed uneven..

Lead generation and outbound prospecting for construction trades, materials suppliers, surveyors, architects and building-control consultants (the mail-merge feature exists precisely for this, and the company's partner testimonials are drawn from exactly those businesses); regional construction-activity monitoring via the building-control layer, which captures actual start-up rather than consent alone; land and site due diligence on consents and constraints within covered authorities; applicant-level outreach ahead of competitors; and market-territory planning for small building firms.

Coverage spans UK; Real Estate Services, Publishing; alternative, fundamental, geospatial, reference; equities.