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Walk into the valuation knowing
what competitors have never found.

We produce pre-listing planning intelligence for rural and AONB properties — withdrawn applications, enforcement history, comparable consents — before anyone else has them. White-label available.

Why estate agents use us

The intelligence that wins instructions
and protects commission.

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Win the instruction
Walk into a rural valuation knowing the full planning history — what was applied for, what was withdrawn, what was refused and why. Your competitors are walking in blind. You are not. The difference between getting the instruction and watching someone else take it.
02
Protect your commission
Enforcement issues, unresolved CLEUDs, title constraints — surfaced before the property lists means your vendor is not blindsided at transaction. No fallen sales. No fee disputes. No surprises that come back on you at exchange.
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Inform your valuation
Comparable consents within the cluster, withdrawn applications that reveal development potential, enforcement history that suppresses value. The intelligence that makes your valuation credible and your advice defensible — delivered before you list.
Real case · rural AONB · estate agent commissioned · anonymised

The planning history that changed
the valuation and the negotiation.

Walked in knowing what no competitor could find.

Pre-listing intelligence · North Wales AONB · £249 · under 24 hoursReal outcome
The context: Rural AONB property. Standard planning searches returned nothing of note. Our proprietary systems queried the live portal directly — pulling 1,000+ records across the postcode cluster in minutes.

Found: A withdrawn CLEUD from 2007 — the property's lawful dwelling status was never confirmed. Invisible to every standard search. Material to any future development or sale. The vendor had known for 18 years.

Also found: A 1949 National Trust covenant and a 1982 Secretary of State restriction in the Land Registry title. Both suppress value. Neither on any planning portal. Neither visible to any competitor.

Outcome: Valuation adjusted before listing. Vendor briefed on the record. No commission risk from issues surfacing at transaction. Agent walked in knowing what competitors could not find.

Total cost: £249 · Turnaround: under 24 hours · Commission protected before the board went up.

White-label & repeat instruction

Your brand.
Our intelligence.

Single report — retail
Site Intelligence Report
£149–£249
Simple to complex · 48 hours
Payment by Stripe before we start

  • Full portal extraction — including blocked and legacy systems
  • Withdrawn applications — CLEUDs, lawfulness, prior approval
  • Enforcement records — all authorities including pre-merger
  • Land Registry title — covenants, restrictions, conditions
  • Postcode cluster — all comparable decisions nearby
  • Committee PDF archive — officer reports, vote records
  • Professional PDF report — white-label available
Estate agents with regular rural instruction
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Single report£149–249Pay before we start
4+ reports/monthfrom £50Per report, volume rate
White-labelIncludedAt volume
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Volume and white-label arrangements discussed after your first report.
What we extract

Behind the portal.
Across the neighbourhood.

We don't stop at what the portal returns. We reach back into legacy systems, committee archives, title registers and enforcement records — and map the full planning landscape around the site.

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Portal bypass tooling

Proprietary systems that query live portals directly — including those with DNS-level blocks, JS-rendered systems, and session-based access controls that defeat every standard tool.

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Full cluster & neighbourhood

Every application in the postcode cluster — approved, refused and withdrawn. Comparable precedent identified, officer wording extracted, patterns mapped across decades.

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Committee PDF archives

Officer reports, committee meeting minutes, vote records, conditions in full. The arguments that worked and the ones that did not. Never in a standard search.

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Land Registry title analysis

Full title — covenants, restrictive conditions, access rights, registered charges. The constraints portals never show but that materially affect every case.

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Enforcement records

Live enforcement notices, planning contravention notices, stop notices. Pre-merger authority records. History that portals do not always surface but that materially affects every case.

Strategic direction

We read the data and tell you what it means. Where the LPA has consistently refused and why. What the comparable consents say about a viable route. Ranked and delivered.

Commission pre-listing intelligence

Tell us the property.
We scope it. You confirm. We deliver.

No payment upfront. White-label delivery available. 48-hour standard turnaround.

Postcode of the site you need intelligence on.
The more context, the better we can scope the work. Max 600 characters.

Intelligence reports produced by Sierra21 Software Studio — the team behind Planning Decoder. Proprietary extraction systems that query planning portals at a depth most professionals cannot access manually.