Vepler

A fully normalised national archive of every UK planning application, from every local planning authority in England, Wales and Scotland, going back as far as each council's own records reach. Each application receives five structured readings — documents, people/organisations, application type, status, and conditions — extracted from officer delegated reports, decision notices and committee minutes, so unstructured PDFs become queryable fields (recommendation, objection counts and themes, policies cited, risks, extractable conditions). Layered on top is a policy graph linking the National Planning Policy Framework through each council's local plan to the individual applications decided under them, plus semantic search across the full document archive with relevance scores and verbatim passage quotes, and lifecycle dates (received, validated, decided) with computed durations.

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Industry: Real Estate ServicesHomebuilders
Instruments: equities
Categories: Alternative

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Type: not stated
Format: Tabular + structured text + geospatial — versioned REST API returning structured JSON fields (e.g. GET /v1/planning/applications?council=oxford&type=major, /{id}/documents, ?policy=leeds-h3), with EPSG:4326 spatial data, document inventories with page counts, source links and fetch timestamps. Sold as datasets as well as API access.
Volume: Very large and genuinely national: every planning application from every local planning authority in England, Wales and Scotland. England alone has roughly 320 local planning authorities and handles on the order of half a million applications a year, and the archive extends back as far as each council's records go, so the corpus is plausibly tens of millions of application records each carrying a full document set — with every application read five ways and every document page indexed for semantic search. No record count is published.
Users: ~10-150 API/data subscribers (inferred: a 6-person UK company selling a professional B2B API and datasets to planning consultancies, housebuilders and investors — a small number of high-value institutional accounts, not self-serve volume)
History: 25 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active — the vendor describes continuously watching every authority's portal, adapting when they change and continuing to serve through portal outages, which is an always-on maintenance operation rather than a static archive; coverage spans England, Wales and Scotland (Oxford, Camden, Bristol, York, Cardiff, Glasgow among named authorities) with authority logos expanding
Launched: ~2023-2025 (inferred: company records show a small recently-formed UK IT company of 6 people with no funding history, and the product's semantic-search, document-extraction and policy-graph architecture is a post-2023 LLM-era build pattern)
Delivery: not stated
Entity mapping: not stated
Sample: not stated
Point-in-time: not stated
Licence: not stated

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