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The site history your competitors
are advising without.

We sweep 1,000+ planning records across the postcode cluster — withdrawn applications, comparable decisions, enforcement history, committee minutes — from portals that block every other tool. Delivered before you pick up the phone.

Fast-track site check — no obligation

Tell us the postcode.
We'll tell you what we find.

No payment upfront. We scope the report first — what we'll cover, the cost, turnaround. You decide before we start.

We confirm scope within hours · Payment by Stripe before we start

Live case — North Wales AONB — planning consultant commissioned — anonymised

The portal blocks every tool.
We pulled 1,000+ records in minutes.

This is what active live retrieval looks like in practice.

Full site intelligence · Denbighshire AONB · £249 · under 24 hoursReal outcome
The barrier: Denbighshire runs on Civica Portal 360 — blocks all automated access at DNS level. Every standard planning search tool stops here. Our proprietary systems queried the live database directly, retrieving the full postcode cluster history in minutes.

Cluster sweep: Full postcode cluster history retrieved — comparable consents, refusals, appeals and withdrawn applications across the cluster, spanning decades. Officer wording extracted for the five most relevant comparables.

Key finding: Application 21/2007/0304 — a Certificate of Lawfulness withdrawal from 2007. The property's lawful dwelling status had never been confirmed. Invisible to every standard search. Material to any planning strategy on the site.

Title constraints: A 1949 National Trust covenant and a 1982 Secretary of State restriction — in the Land Registry title only. Both material to any development proposal. Neither surfaced by any portal search.

Strategic direction: Two comparable consents identified within 800m with near-identical policy position. Refusal pattern in the cluster pointed to a specific policy test the consultant could address directly.

Total cost: £249 · Turnaround: under 24 hours · Intelligence that changed the advice: irreplaceable.

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.

Pricing

Simple to complex.
One transparent range.

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
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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.