Terms of Use & Sale

planningconstraints.com (the “Service”) is operated by Broadhurst Digital Limited(“we”, “us”), a company registered in England & Wales. Registered office: 18 St Nicholas Place, Derby, DE1 3GD. Company No. 12503471. VAT Reg. No. GB355920584.

General enquiries: planningconstraints@broadhurst.digital. Billing, payment and VAT enquiries: planningconstraints@broadhurst.digital. By using the Service you agree to these terms.

The Service aggregates publicly available planning and environmental data from official sources and presents it for general information. It is a screening and research tool only.

The Service, including paid reports, is not: professional, legal, planning, surveying or financial advice; an official local authority search (such as an LLC1 or CON29); an official HM Land Registry document; a coal mining report; or a substitute for any of these. Do not make purchase, sale, design or construction decisions in reliance on the Service alone. Always verify findings with the relevant local planning authority and take professional advice appropriate to your project.

Data is drawn from official open sources including planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), Historic England, Natural England, the Environment Agency, the Mining Remediation Authority, HM Land Registry INSPIRE Index Polygons and Ordnance Survey, under the Open Government Licence v3.0 and related licences (see Licences & attribution).

These datasets may be incomplete, out of date or contain errors, and coverage varies by local authority. Some designations (for example certain tree preservation orders and Article 4 directions) are not yet digitised nationally and will not appear even where they exist. Search results reflect the data available from the sources at the moment of your search. Parcel boundaries are HM Land Registry index polygons: indicative general boundaries only, not the legal boundary of any title.

Paid land-ownership features additionally use HM Land Registry's CCOD and OCOD corporate-ownership datasets. Unlike the sources above, these are licensed data, not open data, used under HM Land Registry's own licence — see the land-ownership section below and the Licences & attribution page.

The free tier provides interactive on-screen searches. Paid products are: the Site Report Pass (£9.99 one-off), which unlocks the Full Survey Report, CSV export, whole-parcel and wide-radius search for one address (within approximately 500 m of the purchased location) for 30 days on activated devices; and Pro(subscription), which unlocks the same features for any address while the subscription is active. Licence keys are for the purchaser's use (or their organisation's reasonable internal use) and may not be resold or shared publicly. All prices include UK VAT at 20%; a VAT receipt is issued on every purchase via Stripe.

Payments are processed by Stripe; we do not see or store card details. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be cancelled at any time via the billing portal, taking effect at the end of the current billing period.

Paid content is digital content supplied immediately. By purchasing you expressly consent to immediate supply and acknowledge that you lose the statutory 14-day cancellation right once supply has begun. That said: if a report fails to generate, or you believe its data is materially wrong, contact us and we will put it right or refund you. Your statutory rights as a consumer (including under the Consumer Rights Act 2015) are unaffected.

You may not: scrape, bulk-download or systematically extract data from the Service; resell, sublicense or white-label the Service or its reports without our written agreement; use the Service to build a competing dataset; use any ownership information we show you for direct marketing of any kind, including contacting registered proprietors to promote or offer goods or services; extract or redistribute the underlying land-ownership data as a standalone dataset or product; bypass technical or rate limits; or use the Service unlawfully. We may suspend access that breaches these terms.

Some paid features combine HM Land Registry corporate ownership data — the CCOD dataset (companies and other corporate bodies registered in the UK) and the OCOD dataset (overseas companies), each covering property in England and Wales — with our planning-constraints data, mapping and analysis. That combined output is a value-added product we are licensed to provide; the underlying data remains the property of HM Land Registry and is used under a separate HM Land Registry licence, not under the Open Government Licence.

We show ownership at postcode-district level — the company or organisation named as registered proprietor, its country of incorporation, proprietorship category and title counts. We do not publish exact property addresses, and ownership is matched to a location by postcode, not by title-plan boundary. It is a screening indicator only: it is not proof of ownership, not an official copy of the register, and reflects HM Land Registry's monthly snapshot (we show the data month wherever ownership appears), which can lag actual transactions by weeks or months. Always confirm ownership with an official copy of the register before relying on it.

When you use these features we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to view and use the ownership information we present to you, for your own (or your organisation's reasonable internal) research and decision-making. You may share a report or result containing this information with your professional advisers, or with others working with you on the same matter, on the basis that they use it only for that matter and on these same conditions. Beyond that, you may not sub-license, resell, publish or otherwise make this information available to anyone else. In particular you must not: (a) extract, copy or redistribute the underlying HM Land Registry data as a standalone product or dataset; (b) use it for direct marketing of any kind, including contacting registered proprietors to promote or offer goods or services; or (c) use it for any purpose contrary to any law, regulation or regulatory code. These conditions are required by HM Land Registry's licence and are passed on to you as its end user. Your permission under this section ends if our licence from HM Land Registry ends or if your right to use the Service ends.

The ownership data itself is provided “as is”, and neither we nor HM Land Registry give any warranty as to its accuracy or completeness. Nothing in this section limits or excludes your statutory rights against us as a consumer, including under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, in respect of anything you buy from us — see the Disclaimers section of these terms. HM Land Registry, Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail are not parties to these terms, but each may enforce the conditions in this section against you directly under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. These terms may otherwise be varied or rescinded without the consent of those third parties, and no other person has rights under that Act. To meet HM Land Registry's licence we keep a record of end users of these features — the contact details you provide when you purchase (such as your email address) and technical logs such as IP address — and may be required to make those records available to HM Land Registry on request for audit purposes. See our Privacy Policy for details.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law we exclude all implied warranties, including accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose and uninterrupted availability.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for: loss of profit, business or opportunity; losses arising from decisions made in reliance on the Service or its reports; or any indirect or consequential loss. Our total aggregate liability to you in respect of the Service is limited to the greater of £100 and the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded by law. Nothing in these terms affects consumers' statutory rights.

We may update the Service and these terms; material changes will be posted on this page with a new “last updated” date. These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction (consumers may also rely on mandatory protections of their country of residence).