England, Wales & Scotland

Check the planning constraints on any site in England, Wales and Scotland.

Conservation areas, listed buildings, flood zones, green belt, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. See what we found, what came back clear, and where a source couldn’t be checked, with the source for each.

Postcode, address or grid reference. England, Wales and Scotland. Free check, then the site report is £9.99, one-off.

3 free checks a day · No sign-up · Site report £9.99, one-off · Team £49 a month for five

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What a result looks like

Found, came back clear, or couldn’t check.

Free council and government maps are good, and we link to them. What a blank on one of them can’t tell you is whether nothing is there or the data was never published. Every line here says which.

Example, England: an owner planning an extension

A house in a conservation area

Found
Conservation area: inside
Permitted development is restricted for some work here. Check before you plan cladding, windows or a side extension.
Source: planning.data.gov.uk, published by the council
Found
Listed building: next door
A listed neighbour can affect how the council sees your design.
Source: Historic England
Came back clear
Flood Zones 2 and 3: came back clear
Nothing mapped at the pin.
Source: Environment Agency
Couldn’t check
Tree preservation orders: couldn’t check
The source did not answer. Ask the council’s tree officer before you remove or cut back a tree.
Source: planning.data.gov.uk

Example, Scotland: a consultant screening before a fee proposal

A development site near Inverness

Found
River flooding: medium likelihood
About a 1 in 200 chance each year. SEPA publishes likelihood, not Flood Zone 2 or 3.
Source: SEPA
Came back clear
Scheduled monuments: came back clear
None within the search area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Couldn’t check
Tree preservation orders: couldn’t check
Highland has not supplied this data. An empty map here would not mean there are none, so ask the council.
Source: Improvement Service Spatial Hub, from council submissions

Examples of how a result reads. The sites are invented, and these are not live results for any address. A real check names the source for every line.

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What the £9.99 gets you.

Everything we can check within 500 m of your pin, for 30 days. The report link never expires. There is no account to create.

A verdict by domain: heritage, flood, planning framework, trees and ecology, ground, and amenity.
The source for every line, so you can follow it back to the publisher.
A scaled map of the constraints around your pin.
A PDF and a link you can send to a client, a council officer or a designer.
A plain note where a source couldn’t be checked. Those domains are marked Partial, never clear.

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Page two of the illustrative sample report: a verdict by domain table with planning framework, heritage, landscape and ecology, flood and water, ground, and amenity rows, each with a state, the finding and a suggested action. — Part of one page of the illustrative sample report. The findings are invented and it is not a report on a real site.

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Coverage

Three nations, each in its own terms.

The checks follow each nation’s own rules and publishers. Where a nation doesn’t have a thing, we say so rather than show an empty line.

Nation	What we check	What to know
England	Heritage, flooding, green belt, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, ecology designations and ground risks, with the NPPF as the policy context.	Some councils don’t publish every dataset. The result says when a source couldn’t be checked, so ask the council where it matters.
Wales	Heritage from Cadw, flooding under TAN15 (the Flood Map for Planning), nature designations and Planning Policy Wales.	Wales has no green belt, and no national Article 4 or tree preservation order data is published, so those are shown as not covered in Wales.
Scotland	Heritage from Historic Environment Scotland, flood likelihood from SEPA, nature from NatureScot, NPF4 and local development plans.	There is no Flood Zone 2 or 3 in Scotland. Green belt, tree preservation orders and Article 4 come from council submissions to the Improvement Service Spatial Hub. Where a council hasn’t supplied them, or the source can’t be reached, the report says so rather than showing clear.
Northern Ireland	Not covered.	We don’t serve Northern Ireland.

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Pricing

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Every paid report includes all the checks we support. Pro, Team and Practice are for repeat work.

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A first look.

£03 checks a day

Whether you’re in a conservation area, your council, and basic flood risk. No sign-up.

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One site, in full.

£9.99one-off

Everything we can check within 500 m of your pin, for 30 days. The report link never expires.

Every line sourced
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Sites you check often.

£19a month

Unlimited sites, saved work, monitoring and exports.

Month to month
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A practice of up to five.

£49a month · five seats

Everything in Pro for five colleagues, with a shared pipeline and a VAT invoice.

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Leavers lose access, the firm keeps the sites

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A larger practice? Practice is £99 a month for fifteen seats, with bulk screening, API access and a white-label client portal.

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All prices include VAT. Coverage varies by nation, location and source, and some councils don’t publish every dataset. Planning Constraints is a screening tool, not an official search, a CON29 or an LLC1, and not professional advice. Check anything important with the local planning authority before you act.

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Planning Constraints is built and run by Broadhurst Digital Limited, a company registered in England (No. 12503471). The data comes from official sources, and every one is listed with its licence.

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