Decide whether to buy, option, redesign or walk — on evidence, in 48 hours.
Before you spend a lot on a site, spend a little to understand it properly. Site Intelligence turns planning policy, technical constraints and indicative viability into one source-traced decision pack for developers, landowners and investors.
Example session3 designations found at or beside this plot.
Four ways a site decision goes.
These are the four moves a site decision comes down to, not our four products. Each of our products gives you the evidence to choose your next move.
Proceed knowing what the site triggers, what it costs, and what to instruct first.
Secure the site while the planning route is tested and proven.
Change the scheme while change is still cheap.
Decline early, before the consultant budget is spent.
The wrong site
does not fail cheaply.
Most sites reveal their expensive problems after architects, planners and specialists have already been instructed. Weeks pass. Budgets drain on reports the site never needed. We bring the critical evidence forward, while the scheme is still cheap to change.
- Flood risk assessment£1,200
- Heritage impact assessment£2,500
- Preliminary ecological appraisal£1,800
- Geotechnical desk study£950
Specialist desktop reports run £800–£5,000 each. A fixed-price brief shows which ones your site actually triggers — before you commission any of them.
Mapped to your site, not a checklist
Every report turns the data into clear, site-specific maps — flood, heritage, ecology, ground and boundary, on your actual red line. Demonstration site: Chilham, Kent.
See what's included
What lands on your desk
A source-traced desktop brief — the site, what constrains it, what is likely feasible, and exactly which specialists to instruct. Flip through the sections.
Sample · HM Land Registry boundaryThe site, established
We fix the boundary against Ordnance Survey mapping and HM Land Registry title extent, then establish the developable area, topography and access frontage before any constraint is read.
- Area
- ≈ 1.4 ha gross
- Frontage
- Adopted highway, north-west
- Base data
- OS · HM Land Registry
The traditional route vs PF & Co
Not a replacement for your consultant team — a faster, source-traced route to the point where you instruct them well. A Tier 1 desktop brief, quality-checked and issued in 48 hours.
Real reports. Real sources. No black box.
Four cumulative products, each including everything in the products before it. You pick the product that matches your decision; each comes with its standard reports, plus the technical reports your site's constraints trigger. Every report is drawn from authoritative government data — British Geological Survey, Environment Agency, Historic England, Natural England, and 126 more — every figure traced to source, every report run through 200+ automated quality checks before issue. If a planning officer asks "where did you get this?", one click.
Which product is right for you?
Tell us where you are in the decision. We match you to the product, priced by your scheme size.
Site Appraisal
"Is this site worth looking at?"
A go / no-go read: a traffic-light constraint summary, a fatal-flaw check, and the list of reports you would need if you proceed.
Spend less. Spend smarter.
Before you commit serious money to land, architects, planners or surveys, get a structured, evidence-based read on planning risk, what the site can become, and whether to proceed. We don't replace your consultants; we help you brief the right ones, at the right time.
Decide in days
Coordinating separate firms for an early read takes weeks, and the decision waits on all of them. We give you one source-traced read in 48 hours, so you reach a confident proceed, pause or walk decision while it still changes the outcome.
Spend a little first
The wrong site, or the wrong strategy, can cost tens of thousands in abortive fees and reports the site never needed. A fixed-price read tells you whether a site is worth pursuing before you commit any of it. Small money, high decision value.
See the pricesOne joined-up view
Early evidence usually arrives as separate documents that never reference each other. Ours is one joined-up read — when flood mitigation adds £200k to your build costs, the viability picture already reflects it, so the decision is built on the whole picture.
We're not selling you another planning report. We're helping you avoid spending money on the wrong site, or the wrong strategy.
How it works
Three steps from site address to a source-traced desktop intelligence pack.
Tell us your site
Share the address, the development type, and the scale. That's all we need.
We detect constraints automatically
We cross-reference 130 authoritative datasets and run 200+ automated quality checks to map the constraints that apply and the specialist input your site is likely to need.
Receive your tailored report pack
Your desktop report pack arrives within 48 hours — every figure traced to source, every constraint mapped, and a clear steer on which specialists to instruct next.
Who stands behind the work
Four defined levels of review, from automated checks to independent chartered review. No vague sign-offs.
System quality assurance
More than 200 automated checks run on every report before issue — testing data handling, internal consistency, formatting, citations, and potential accuracy and compliance issues.
Named technical review
A named technical reviewer checks every pack before it is issued. No report reaches a client on automation alone.
Formal signed review statement
A named reviewer reads the entire pack and issues a signed review statement with a defined scope and limitations. Being a formal signed statement, it adds time beyond the 48 hours.
Independent chartered review
A separately instructed chartered practitioner reviews a defined discipline and scope, stated on the review certificate. Never a vague sign-off.
PF & Co stands behind every brief it issues. If a figure is challenged, its source, date and reasoning are one click away.
Built to keep your project moving
You place the order; we assemble the evidence, run the checks, and issue a source-traced brief within 48 hours. Your team keeps moving, and when a decision warrants extra assurance, an expert sign-off is available as an add-on.
- 0hYou
You place the order
Address, development type and scale. No sign-up, no chasing.
- 0–24hSite Intelligence
We assemble the evidence
Around 130 authoritative datasets cross-referenced into one read of the site.
- 24–47hSite Intelligence
We run the quality checks
200+ automated checks on sources, figures and cross-references before anything goes out.
- 48hSite Intelligence
Brief issued
A source-traced desktop brief lands — developed with reference to the RICS standard on the responsible use of AI.
- On requestYou
You request an expert sign-off
For the decisions where you want a person to have read every page.
- Beyond 48hSite Intelligence
We carry out the sign-off
A named personal sign-off or a chartered-planner review. The reviewer reads the whole brief, which is why it adds time beyond the 48 hours.
Developed with reference to the RICS standard on the responsible use of AI before it became mandatory on 9 March 2026. Automation does the heavy lifting: every brief runs through 200+ automated quality checks before issue, and a named personal sign-off or chartered-planner review is available as an add-on when you want it.
Trusted data sources
We use the same authoritative datasets that planning officers rely on — government, regulated-industry and partnership sources.
Many authoritative sources. One clear brief.
Authoritative datasets brought into one assessment, every finding traced to its source, resolved into a single report — not a stack of disconnected PDFs.
See a sample brief
The reports we produce
Auto-selected by your site's constraints, not a generic checklist. You pay one fixed price per product, not per report.
PLOT · INDICATIVE© Esri, MaxarComing soon — see what fits on your site
Indicative site layouts, generated alongside your evidence brief, showing what could fit within your boundary before you spend anything on design.
One email when it launches. We will not use your address for anything else.
Extension, loft, outbuilding or buying a plot — get a plain-English planning review before you spend.
Ready to see what your site needs?
A fixed-price, source-traced pack, quality-checked and on your desk within 48 hours.