PlanningScout monitors UK planning portals every week, scores every relevant application against your brief, and delivers the best opportunities to your inbox — so you focus on winning work, not hunting for it.
We handle the monitoring, reading, and scoring. You make the calls.
Every application matching your brief — across Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, London, South East, Midlands and more — swept automatically every week.
We analyse every application against the signals you care about — whether that's winnable appeal grounds, new major applications, prior approvals, or specific site activity. Your criteria, your signals.
A ranked digest of the week's best opportunities — scored, pre-qualified, with direct portal links and applicant intel. Nothing to search, nothing to open.
Different consultancies need different intelligence. PlanningScout is configured around your practice — whether you're hunting appeal leads, building an instruction pipeline, tracking prior approvals, or monitoring market activity.
During onboarding we set up your monitoring brief together — the use classes, decision types, trigger phrases, and councils that match exactly what you do.
Sequential test failures, lack of evidence, out-of-centre refusals — cases a consultant can turn around on appeal.
New complex applications in your sector — transport, viability, heritage, ecology — before a consultant is appointed.
Class MA office-to-resi, Class Q agricultural conversions — new applications and refused ones with appeal potential.
Track applications near client land, monitor a target area, or watch competitor sites for development signals.
Each entry in your weekly digest is pre-read, pre-scored, and pre-qualified. Everything you need for a quick go/no-go — without opening a single portal.
Every subscriber gets a custom monitoring brief. Below are example trigger sets for common practice types. If yours isn't listed, we'll build it together during onboarding.
Before using PlanningScout, our outreach was manual and inconsistent. Now, we've seen an 8–15× increase in monthly opportunities through automated UK-wide monitoring. It has reduced our manual workload significantly. We've essentially automated the 'hunt.'
Start with a full month free — no card, no commitment. If PlanningScout finds you one instruction, it pays for itself many times over. Then pick the plan that matches your practice.
A single planning instruction typically generates £5,000–£50,000 in fees.
Annual billing saves 2 months · All prices exclude VAT
You get one full month free — no credit card required. We set up your monitoring brief, run the first scan, and you receive a real digest. After the trial, choose the plan that fits. If PlanningScout isn't delivering value, you simply don't subscribe. No awkward cancellations.
No. While appeal leads are a core use case, PlanningScout can be configured for any planning intelligence need: tracking new major applications for instruction leads, monitoring prior approvals, watching specific sites or areas, or following competitor and market activity in your sector.
50+ councils across England — Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, London boroughs, South East, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, South West, and North East. Coverage expands regularly. The Practitioner plan covers up to 10 councils; Professional and Practice plans cover all available councils.
Each application is scored based on how strongly it matches your monitoring brief. For appeal leads, the score weights the strength of the refusal grounds — "lack of evidence" refusals score highest (easiest win on appeal), sequential test failures score strongly, and generic boilerplate is filtered out. Scoring logic is fully configurable per client.
Entirely from public UK planning portals — the same pages any member of the public can access. Application details, decision notices, and applicant names are all publicly available. We read and process that data automatically, at scale, every week. No private systems, no GDPR concerns.
A formatted email every Monday morning, plus a live Google Sheet updated weekly with your full lead history. The sheet is searchable, sortable, and has a column for your own notes and status. Practice plan subscribers also get CSV and API export for integration into their own tools.
Yes — your brief is a living configuration, not a one-time setup. If you expand into new sectors, add councils, or want to refine your trigger set based on what's coming through, just get in touch. We update it within 48 hours and it takes effect on the next weekly run.
Let us know during onboarding — we prioritise adding councils our users need. Most UK councils use Idox planning software, which we support. If a council uses a different system, we'll tell you honestly whether it's feasible and give you a timeline.
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