Planning data infrastructure

UK planning applications API.

Build property alerts, planning research and CRM integrations with current and historical planning applications, decisions and source links. Search by council, postcode or radius, add flood-risk and sold-price context where available, and receive changes through signed webhooks.

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No card or sales call for a free sample key. Live-data plans from £49/month + VAT. Check your council coverage.

Direct council portals Freshness monitoring Webhooks & enrichment

Monitored source preview

source health / search / webhooks

API preview

Coverage

active source records

JSON

responses

Search by area

postcode, radius, council

Normalize messy records

dates, status, source links

Send product alerts

signed webhook delivery

example record

Responses include reference, council, address, description, dates, coordinates, status, market evidence, and a link back to the public source.

Planning applications API

Build with council planning records, decisions, source links and spatial search.

Planning alerts API

Send watch-area updates from new applications, changed records and decisions.

Proptech planning API

Power maps, CRMs, due-diligence tools and customer monitoring workflows.

Commercial workflows

Layer planning activity with flood risk, sold prices, and decision/date context.

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planning.data.gov.uk alternative

When the free official platform is useful, but your product also needs monitoring, source links and webhooks.

Searchland alternative

For teams that want a planning applications API rather than a site-sourcing workspace.

Glenigan alternative

Self-serve API access, public docs and clear pricing before a sales conversation.

Barbour ABI alternative

Source-backed planning records for products and data teams, with a free sandbox.

19M+

applications indexed

Coverage

active sources monitored

Source

links and health checks

Webhooks

signed product delivery

Why pay when free feeds exist?

The product layer on top of fragmented public planning data.

Planning data is public, but production workflows break on partial coverage, stale councils, inconsistent portal formats, and missing operational signals. PlanWire monitors direct sources, normalises records, and shows when a feed can be trusted.

Direct source monitoring

We track public council portals and official datasets, then expose source links and health context for audit trails.

Freshness visibility

Operational checks flag stale, blocked, and failed sources so teams are not blindly trusting a silent feed.

Enrichment built in

Single-application responses can include flood risk, sold-price market evidence, decision/date context, and nearby planning context.

Product-ready delivery

Spatial search, keyword search, pagination, and signed webhooks are designed for products, CRMs, and data platforms.

API surface

One planning applications API, a consistent response shape.

Filters go in query params, auth goes in a header, and responses use the same data/meta pattern across search, nearby lookup, council coverage, and webhook setup.

GET/v1/applications

GET/v1/applications/nearby

GET/v1/councils

POST/v1/webhooks

Evaluate one workflow before committing

1. Inspect the records

Create a free key for sample records and 25 requests per day. Free access tests the response shape; it is not a complete live territory feed.

Run your first planning search

2. Verify your area

Check council history, source health and missing fields. Coordinates, UPRNs, decisions and documents are not available on every record.

Inspect the dataset and coverage

3. Connect your product

Developer includes one council/postcode-scoped webhook. Test event signing and recovery before sizing production usage.

Follow the integration walkthrough

Planning permission is not evidence of a construction start or confirmed materials demand. Source checks, application dates and individual record changes are different signals.

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API status: Monitoring unavailable

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when planning data becomes operational.

The free plan is for testing API shape and sample records. Paid plans add live planning data, production request limits, webhooks, change events, and decision outcomes.

Free

Evaluate the API

£0

No card required

25 requests per day

Sample application records

Limited council preview

Create free key

Developer

Build and launch

£49/mo +VAT

Billed at signup, then monthly

1,000 requests per day

Live and historic data, decisions and source evidence

One signed webhook, scoped to a council or postcode area

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Recommended for production

Production

Products, CRMs and monitoring

£199/mo +VAT

Billed at signup, then monthly

10,000 requests per day

Decisions, freshness and source evidence

100 signed webhooks, including nationwide coverage

Subscribe to Production

Business

High-volume commercial workflows

£499/mo +VAT

Paid from signup

50,000 requests per day

Highest volume, with priority on coverage fixes

Nationwide webhooks with fair-use volume and priority fixes

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Enterprise

Custom coverage, SLA and procurement

Dedicated onboarding, contractual commitments and a usage model designed around your production workload.

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Cancel anytime to stop future renewals. Payments are non-refundable, except where required by law. Billing terms.

Paid plans are billed at signup, then monthly. Prices exclude VAT; UK customers are charged VAT at the prevailing rate, and EU businesses with a valid VAT number are reverse-charged. Existing subscribers keep their current price. Use the free tier to evaluate sample data before purchasing.

Use cases

Planning infrastructure for commercial workflows.

Use PlanWire when free feeds are not enough: source-backed records, monitoring, enrichment, and delivery into the products your customers already use.

CRMs

Route new applications and source-backed status updates into sales workflows.

GIS and mapping

Layer current and historic planning records with normalized coordinates and source links.

Product alerts

Watch areas, postcodes, councils, and keywords with signed webhook delivery.

Feasibility reports

Combine planning activity with flood risk and market evidence around a site.

Planning intelligence inside the software you already use

sitemax uses PlanWire for market evidence in early-stage feasibility reports. PLOTT uses it to support planning lead discovery. Read their published testimonials.

Supplying materials or construction services? Evaluate one territory with your commercial and integration teams. The pilot shows source evidence and matching records, not contact lists or a finished CRM.

Supplier Territory Evaluation

Free access

Try the API with sample planning records.

Create a free key to inspect response formats, test local searches, and confirm PlanWire fits your workflow. Live data, broad coverage, exports, and webhooks are included on paid plans.