What you are buying
Consentvia: A record of your own applications: cost, dates, conditions, variations, appeals
A planning data platform: National datasets: every application mapped, ownership, constraints, site finding and an API
The small developer, planning agent or architect in England and Wales who prepares and tracks planning applications, with a handful of schemes in hand, a fee to justify to a client, a clock to chase and a file to keepNot a homeowner with a permitted-development question, not a neighbour reading a council's register, not someone hiring a consultant, not a landowner sourcing sites, and not anyone looking for a legal opinion or a prediction of what an authority will decide
Section 73 application, the cost and timeline sheets and the application file, built for the applicant who runs planning applications
Consentvia is for the person who runs planning applications in England and Wales: the small developer with three schemes in hand, the planning agent chasing a validation letter, the architect whose client asks what the section 73 will cost and when the decision lands. The free worksheets on this site cost an application all in from your own fee, agent, drawings, surveys and pre-app charge, and read its clock against the statutory period and any extension agreed, with no account. Then the paid plan keeps the application file as the record, so the references, the dates, the conditions and the appeals stop living in a spreadsheet and a folder of PDFs.
Consentvia Pro is £99 per month for your whole team, billed monthly.
- 2free tools on this site
- 160UK searches a month
- Planning applications only
The worksheets the application is costed and chased from
Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
- How long does a planning application take: timeline sheet Put in the statutory period for the application type, the weeks since validation, any extension of time agreed, the consultees still outstanding and the weeks to committee, and see the weeks left, the share of the period used, the earliest decision week and the point at which non-determination can be appealed. Free
- Cost of planning application sheet Put in the authority's fee, the agent, the drawings, the surveys, the pre-app charge and the other costs against the units proposed, and see the cost all in, the professional share, the cost per unit and what is sunk if the application is refused. Free
The sheet is yours. Consentvia Pro keeps the application it costed.
Upgrading turns the worksheet into the record. The cost sheet becomes an application with a reference on it; the timeline becomes dates the file keeps and reads against the period; every condition, variation and amendment is recorded against the application with its own date; a refusal opens the appeal on the same file. Export is always available, so the application history is yours whether or not you stay.
- Send a cost sheet or a condition schedule from inside the record
£99 per month, whole team
Consentvia Pro is £99 per month for your whole team, billed monthly. Billed monthly. Cancel any time from your account page. Price and renewal terms are shown before checkout.
Cost, validate, condition, decide
An application is one record, and it usually lives in a spreadsheet, a folder of PDFs and a browser tab on each council's register
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Every application costed all in before it goes in, with the sunk share shown
Most client arguments are about a cost nobody added up: the fee was quoted, the agent was quoted, and the four surveys the validation checklist asked for arrived one at a time. Costing the application all in, and showing what is sunk if it is refused, is the decision, and it is the one most applicants make after the invoices.
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Every application read against its statutory period and the extension actually agreed
An extension of time agreed by email is an extension nobody can find when the client asks why the decision is late. Keeping the validation date, the period and every extension against the application, and reading the weeks left from them, is what turns a chase into a reading.
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Every condition, variation and amendment against the application it belongs to
A section 73 filed without the parent application's conditions beside it is a variation of something nobody can see. Holding the conditions, the discharges, the variations and the non-material amendments against the consent they attach to is what makes the next scheme on the same site start from a record rather than a search.
Should you just subscribe to a planning data platform?
If you want every application in the country mapped, ownership and constraints layers, site-finding filters and an API for your own tooling, subscribe to a planning data platform and give it the twelve-month commitment it asks for. Consentvia is for the applicant with a handful of schemes who wants each one costed, its clock read and its conditions kept as a record, and is not building a site-finding pipeline to get it.
How it starts
Consentvia: You open it and add your first authority and your first application; the free worksheets need no account at all
A planning data platform: A subscription with a minimum term, credits to spend and a learning curve
How it is priced
Consentvia: £99 per month for your whole team, billed monthly, cancel from your account page
A planning data platform: From a three-figure monthly sum paid annually on a twelve-month minimum, per user, with data add-ons
What it does not do
Consentvia: It does not map the country's applications, does not find sites, does not publish a fee schedule and does not predict a decision
A planning data platform: Covers the data and the site finding, at a depth a three-scheme applicant rarely needs on day one
No competitor tier is compared feature for feature here, deliberately: planning data platforms are priced per user on annual minimums with data add-ons and the fit depends on how many sites an applicant hunts. This hub's own price is the one figure on the page, and it is the estimate recorded in research/data/saas-products.tsv (basis: estimated, under a platform's published entry tier) rather than a comparison against a named plan.