Cover every patch you work in, without checking a single portal
Planning activity is a leading indicator for everything you do, stock coming to market, land changing hands, competitors moving into your area. Reading it manually across a dozen councils is not a job anyone should have.
What gets in the way
Every council has a different portal
Different search, different export, different terminology. Tracking five authorities means five routines.
The signal is buried
Most of any register is tree works and condition discharges. The applications that matter to you are a small fraction.
Spreadsheets go stale immediately
By the time a manual list is compiled it already misses this week.
How PlotSignal helps
Watch whole councils
Not just a pin and a radius, an entire authority, filtered to the scale and type you care about.
Keyword watches
Get told about anything mentioning “outline”, “change of use”, “HMO”, or a specific site name, across every area you cover.
Export and integrate
CSV export of any view, plus a read API so the data goes straight into whatever you already use.
Authority benchmarks
Approval rates and decision speed by council, so you can advise clients on what to expect rather than guess.
We would start you on Radar
Cover a patch, not a postcode.
- A hundred watches, up to 10 km each
- Watch whole councils
- Unlimited instant alerts
- Fifty property reports a month
- Read API and bulk CSV export
- Authority performance benchmarks
£14.99 a month. Start on the free plan first if you prefer.
Questions agents and developers ask
Can I use the data commercially?
Planning registers are public records. Our terms allow commercial use of what you export within your own business, and the API is rate limited per account.
Do you cover every UK council?
We cover all of London today, every borough plus the City and the two development corporations, with the rest of the UK coming next. The authority pages show exactly what we hold for each council, so you can check before relying on it.