Plansearch

Plansearch is a unique report providing essential planning information for targeted residential properties and their surrounding area. This includes current and historical information that reaches far beyond the boundaries of the Local Authority Search.

Plansearch covers:

Planning applications
Land Use Policies
Flooding

Planning applications

Plansearch contains details of applications made for planning permission since 1997 within a 250m radius of the targeted property. The applications have been standardised in the following way:

Housing
Civil engineering (e.g. bridges, runways etc.)
Transportation facilities (e.g. petrol stations, car parks, airports etc.)
Sports/leisure
Education/health
Commercial/retail
Power/water/telecom
Hotel/catering
Industrial/agricultural/demolitions
Public building

For each application comprehensive information is given that pre-empts any potential surprises around the corner for your client. This includes: the development type, its direction and distance in relationship to the target property, category, stage, application reference and date, project size, floor space, number of units, area and positional accuracy.

Land use policies

Plansearch provides a summary of policies for future development and land use within a 500m radius of the property. These follow categories, which have been standardised across Britain to:

Housing
Open land (e.g. green belts/nature reserves)
Heritage environment (e.g. historical buildings)
Transport
Town centres and retailing
Industrial and commercial
Community and social facilities
Waste, pollution minerals, water and energy
Rural/settlement areas
Other site specific plans

A brief description of the proposed development type, its direction and distance and a list of the related policies are provided for each development. This ensures that if your client has any concerns, further information can be easily obtained.

Plansearch goes further than the local search, which means:

To the homebuyer

Peace of mind - greater knowledge of an area
Revealing - no surprises waiting around the corner
Value for money - quality information for an informed decision

To the practitioner

Total service - that help clients make the right decision
Time-saving - current and historical planning information at your fingertips in a user friendly and illustrated report
Promote best practice - provides as much information to the client as possible to facilitate an informed purchase
Plansearch Plus includes all of the above as well as:
Planning decisions
Aerial photography
Information on telecoms masts
Footpaths and Rights of Way
Local neighbourhood information

Flooding information

Using the Environment Agency's assessment, Plansearch Residential is able to identify whether the property or surrounding area is in one of the following:

Natural river floodplain
Coastal floodplain

An outline of the floodplain will be illustrated on the floodplain map. This will not show flood defences.

The centre for Ecology and Hydrology provides flooding information for Scotland. This reports on areas that are likely to flood from non-tidal rivers in the absence of flood defences.