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Your search pack checked the register.
It didn't check what was withdrawn.

Unresolved CLEUDs, pre-merger enforcement notices, title constraints outside any planning portal — the planning history CON29 cannot surface. We retrieve it using proprietary systems that access live portals directly. Formatted as a professional disbursement report. Delivered in 48 hours.

What CON29 misses

The gaps in your standard
search pack that matter most.

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Withdrawn applications
An application pulled before determination does not appear in most standard searches. A withdrawn CLEUD is the most dangerous example — it signals a lawful use claim that was never resolved. We retrieve these from the live portal, including portals that block every other tool.
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Pre-merger authority records
Local government reorganisation created data gaps between former district and county authority records. Enforcement notices from before the merger are often missing from the current LPA's portal. We retrieve from both sources and cross-reference the full history.
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Land Registry title constraints
Covenants, Secretary of State restrictions, National Trust designations — these sit in the title register only, outside any planning portal. We cross-reference both systems in every report and flag anything material to the transaction.
Real case · solicitor commissioned · Denbighshire AONB · anonymised

A CLEUD withdrawal.
18 years. Invisible to CON29.

This is what the gap looks like in practice — and what happens when it's found before exchange.

Pre-exchange due diligence · Denbighshire · £249 · under 24 hoursReal outcome
Why CON29 missed it: Denbighshire runs on Civica Portal 360 — which blocks all automated access. The withdrawn CLEUD was invisible to every standard search. Our proprietary systems accessed the live portal directly.

Finding: Application 21/2007/0304 — a Certificate of Lawfulness for existing use, withdrawn 2007. The property's lawful dwelling status was unconfirmed. The vendor had known for 18 years. Not on CON29. Not on any standard search.

Also found: A 1949 National Trust covenant and a 1982 Secretary of State restriction in the title register — outside any planning portal, both material to the transaction and to your client's PI position.

Outcome: Transaction renegotiated before exchange. Your client's exposure documented. Report cost £249, passed as a disbursement, delivered in under 24 hours.

Total cost: £249 · Turnaround: under 24 hours · PI risk documented before exchange.

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.

For your practice

Passes cleanly as a disbursement.
Protects your client and your PI cover.

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
Solicitor firms & conveyancing practices
Regular rural transactions?Disbursement pricing scales with volume.
Single report£149–249Pay before we start
4+ reports/monthfrom £50Per report, volume rate
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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.