Check free. Pay only for the paper.
Unlimited interactive constraint checks stay free for everyone. When a decision needs a document — buying, designing, advising — the Full Survey Report is £9.99 once, or unlimited on Pro — and £49 a month puts five colleagues on it, £99 the whole office.
Reports are screening information from official open data, not professional advice or an official search — see the Terms of Use & Sale. By purchasing you consent to immediate supply of digital content. All prices include UK VAT at 20% (Broadhurst Digital Limited, VAT GB355920584); a VAT receipt is issued on every purchase. Billing queries: planningconstraints@broadhurst.digital.
What exactly is in the Full Survey Report?+
Everything the checker finds at the address as a professional PDF — every entity from every source listed in full with its distance from your pin, plain-English “what this means” notes, recommended next checks, AI digests of the council documents (conservation area appraisals, Article 4 directions, TPO schedules), residual checks for clear categories, and the underlying data as CSV, Markdown or a paste-ready table.
What does “whole-parcel survey” mean?+
Free searches sweep a circle around your pin (up to 50 m). Paid searches unlock radii up to 500 m, or can instead use the registered Land Registry title boundary — or a boundary you draw yourself: the polygon is tested for intersection against the national planning datasets, and the remaining sources sweep a circle that fully contains it — so a designation clipping the far corner of a large garden or paddock is still caught. Parcel boundaries are HM Land Registry index polygons (indicative, not precise legal boundaries).
Is the free checker going away?+
No. Unlimited interactive searches, the map, role presets, site comparison and the nearest-constraint readout stay free. Paid plans fund the data infrastructure and add the deliverables that leave the app — PDF, CSV, Markdown, hosted reports and GIS exports.
What are the Pro data layers?+
Datasets professionals check next, beyond the free register: surface water flood risk, SSSI impact risk zones (does your development type trigger Natural England consultation?), nutrient neutrality catchments, groundwater source protection zones, the historic flood map, statutory main rivers, agricultural land classification and planning application history near the pin.
How does site monitoring work?+
Save a site to your Pro portfolio and switch on monitoring: we re-run the survey weekly and email you when a new constraint entity appears at that location — a new designation, or a dataset back-filling records. You can stop monitoring per site at any time.
How does the Site Report Pass work?+
Search an address in the tool, then buy the pass from the report panel. It unlocks the Full Survey Report and CSV for that address for 30 days — handy if you adjust the pin or radius and want to re-export. One-off payment, no account needed.
What is in Team, and how do the five seats work?+
£49/month (or £490/year) buys one shared workspace with five seats — flat, whether you fill two or five. Everything in Pro for everyone on it, plus a shared site pipeline: stages, assignees and comments on the sites your practice is actually working. Each person signs in as themselves, which is the point — you can see who moved what, and nobody is passing one login around. Clients and outside consultants can be added as free read-only guests without using a seat. Branded reports and client portals are rolling out through this release and are included as they arrive.
What happens after I buy Team?+
You get an email with a link to claim the workspace: sign in with the address you paid with (creating an account if you have not got one), claim the owner seat, then invite up to four colleagues by email. Team is the only thing here that needs an account — the free checker and the £9.99 Site Report Pass stay completely account-free. Removing someone frees their seat immediately. Need more than five seats? Email us and we will sort it out properly rather than sell you a sixth.
What is in Practice, and how is it different from Team?+
£99/month (or £990/year) for fifteen seats and everything Team has, plus the three things a practice outgrows Team for: bulk CSV screening (500 rows a month included), API keys so constraint screening runs inside your own systems (1,000 screens a month included), and a white-label client portal — your logo, your colours, and our "Produced with Planning Constraints" credit removed from what your clients see. Guests stay free and uncounted, so fifteen seats means fifteen colleagues, not fifteen people who can read a portal.
Does white-label remove the data attributions too?+
No, and it never will. The attribution lines — planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), Historic England, Natural England, the Environment Agency, HM Land Registry, and the Open Government Licence notice — are licence obligations we hold to the data providers, not our branding. They stay on every report and every portal page at every tier. White-label removes our own product credit, which is a different thing entirely, and the two are separate blocks in the page precisely so they cannot be confused. The downloadable PDF and Word report keep our footer credit as well.
We are on Team — what happens if we upgrade?+
Your existing workspace is upgraded in place: the same board, the same sites, files, portals, timeline and people. Nobody re-claims anything and nobody signs in again. Seats go from five to fifteen and the Practice features unlock on the next page load — the tier is read from your organisation record on every request, so there is no cookie to wait out. If you later downgrade, it takes effect at the end of the billing period: nobody is removed from the workspace, but new invites are capped back at five and the Practice-only surfaces stop.
Can we have the portal on our own domain?+
Not yet. Portal white-label — your branding, our credit gone — is available now; a client portal served from your own domain is on the roadmap and we would rather not promise a date for it than miss one. If it is a deal-breaker for you, tell us and it moves up the list.
How is payment handled?+
Through Stripe. We never see or store your card details. You will receive a Stripe receipt by email, and Pro subscribers can manage or cancel their plan self-serve at any time.
Can I use Pro on more than one device?+
Yes. Your licence key (shown after checkout and emailed to you) activates any device — office desktop, laptop, site phone.
Where does the data come from?+
Official open sources only: planning.data.gov.uk, Historic England, Natural England, the Environment Agency, the Mining Remediation Authority and HM Land Registry. Reports state their sources and remain advisory — always verify with the local planning authority before acting.
Do you offer refunds?+
If a report fails to generate or the data is materially wrong, email us and we will refund or fix it — whichever you prefer. Subscriptions can be cancelled anytime and remain active to the end of the billing period.
Something else? Get in touch — or just use the free checker.