Our Company

You’ve found a team of experts obsessed with four things: data, planning, people and places.

We’re proudly fascinated with understanding the past, present and the potential futures of places. We believe that data science should play a bigger part in shaping our towns and cities, and we’re invested in making it happen. We love to work with like-minded people that share our ambition.

What makes us different?

We offer location intelligence like nobody else.

What makes us special is our unique combination of traditional experience in the planning and surveying professions enhanced with the cutting-edge availability of software development and geospatial data science.

Our people have come from world-class institutions such as NASA and property industry powerhouses such as Arcadis and Arup.

We’ve invested over 7 years and £1.5 million in building our digital planning and development technologies.

At the heart of our team is a group of passionate professionals, dedicated to making a positive impact on the future shape of our towns and cities.

Software Providers

Data focussed
Pros
  • Affordable
  • Objective
  • Scalable
Cons
  • Annual subscription fee upfront
  • Impersonal
  • Inflexible
  • Don't add value - little analysis
  • Effort involved in processing
  • Everyone sees the same sites
  • No guarantee of usable results

The UI Approach

We combine the latest technology and innovation with first-class service.
Pros
  • Unique results on a national basis
  • Sites analysed and ranked based on your specification
  • Risks reduced - don’t waste time on sites that just won’t work.
  • Scalable and powerful using the most comprehensive land database in the UK.
  • Serviced solution
  • Innovative team of tech, planning and property experts who can guide you through the process.
  • Excellent value
  • Flexible payments - we’re incentivised to share in your success

Agents/Consultancies

Service focussed
Pros
  • High quality service
  • Serviced solution
  • Advice
  • Human relationship
Cons
  • Expensive
  • Time-consuming
  • Laborious
  • Traditional
  • Outdated
  • Upfront risk and cost
  • Limited geographical scope

We created Urban Intelligence due to frustration with how difficult it was to find information on the development potential of property.

When we started in 2014, we knew the future of planning and property development was going to be digital. But a single repository of machine-readable data didn’t exist, so we built it. We’ve spent years drawing, scraping, reading and processing planning policy and constraints information from documents and PDF maps into the most comprehensive database in the UK.

From CIL zones and Article 4(2) Directions to green wedges and neighbourhood plan boundaries; our data catalogue, combined with our knowledge and skills in using it gives us our edge when advising our clients on development opportunities and risks. This separates us from any other organisation in the marketplace and offers a huge advantage to our customers.

Our mission is to transform the way the world views land and property.

Our Values

Innovation
Innovation

We’re at the cutting-edge of using data and technology in planning to create better places for people

Curiosity
Curiosity

We embrace the freedom to explore and test new ideas that could have a positive impact

Leadership
Leadership

We’re comfortable being the first to solve difficult challenges, that have been unsolved for decades

“Using our rare multidisciplinary team of property and data experts, we can help you embrace technology to build unique property development and investment strategies that will pay off today and tomorrow. ”

Daniel Mohamed Founder & CEO, Urban Intelligence

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