Planninghandbook

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 distinctive outbound-lead angle most planning-data vendors do not offer.

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Industry: Real Estate ServicesPublishing
Instruments: equities
Categories: Alternative

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Type: not stated
Format: Tabular — searchable database delivered as spreadsheet download, map view, saved searches, email alerts and mail-merge output. No API, bulk feed or machine-to-machine endpoint is advertised, which is the key delivery limitation.
Volume: 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 Record depth per authority is unpublished and should be assumed uneven.
Users: ~100-800 subscribers (inferred: a 17-person publishing-led company selling a subscription search-and-export service into construction trades and practices — a mid-size SMB subscriber base, not enterprise accounts)
History: not stated
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active but incremental — coverage is described as expanding all the time with an area-request channel and a public coverage map, and a new AI-powered planning-check tool has been launched, though the underlying business is a decade-plus-old publishing operation rather than a venture-scale data firm
Launched: est. 2013-2016 for the underlying business (site states '10+ Years in operation' alongside 100+ areas covered and 500k+ handbooks distributed, and the company record shows a UK firm registered in 2015); the DataHub data product itself is later, est. 2020-2023
Delivery: not stated
Entity mapping: not stated
Sample: not stated
Point-in-time: not stated
Licence: not stated

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