Send an address and one line on what is being built. Back comes what the site is designated, what surveys that triggers, what will hold the programme up, and which consultants the job will need. £15 per site, free during the closed trial.
No account. No subscription. One site at a time.
What you send. An address, and a line on what is being built.
What comes back. What applies to the site, what it triggers, and what it will cost in time.
The hard part is clicking around on different pages, hunting for different answers.
An Article 4 direction. A tree with an order on it. A boundary that runs through the plot rather than around it. Cheap to find in an afternoon. Expensive to find at validation.
A bat activity survey cannot be run outside its window. Miss it and the programme does not slip by a fortnight — it slips to next year, and you agreed dates before anyone knew.
Asbestos survey. Measured survey. Structural appraisal. Drainage strategy. Each one is a fee your client has not been told about, and none of them are yours.
A job cannot be priced when the site is not understood.
But busy desk work should not slow you down. Plinth does it for you, so that your proposal already has the site in it.
Designations, answered against live public data for the position you give. Where a boundary falls within the accuracy of that position, it is reported as unresolved rather than asserted either way. Every designation is asked of live public data at the time of the run, and where the answer is not certain it says so.
What the works themselves trigger, not only what the map says. Ecology, asbestos, structural, drainage, party wall — with the seasonal window named where one applies, and whether it is open.
The items carrying a lead time or a season, in the order they will bite. This is the section that decides whether the dates you are about to agree are dates you can keep.
The consultants the job will need, so your client hears about them from you at the start rather than from someone else halfway through.
Answered at the time of the run, against the address or the map pin you give. A pin narrows the site from roughly a hundred metres to about twenty-five, and where it lands on a building we check the building's whole outline. Five metres needs a measured survey, a title plan or an OS grid reference.
England only, for now. Outside England these layers are not wired in. The report would come back saying every check was unanswered, which is honest and worth nothing, so I do not run those.
Nobody visits the site. This is the work done before a site visit or a pre-application, so those start from the right questions.
Where a boundary falls within the accuracy of the position given, it says so rather than rounding the answer up to yes or down to no.
Whether it will be approved is your judgement. This tells you what applies, not what to do about it.
The report comes to you.
£15 per site, free during the closed trial.
The invoice comes with the report, not before it. If what arrives tells you nothing you did not already know about the site, do not pay it.
Send the address and a line on the job. If the site needs a pin to answer properly — a long garden, a terrace on a boundary, a farmstead — I will come back and ask for one before running it.
English sites only at the moment — see above. If you send one outside England I will tell you rather than run it.
This is early. Every report is read before it goes out, and if something in it is wrong for the street you know better than I do, I want to hear it.