Instant planning feasibility for UK residential development.
Generate a site-specific, one-page feasibility report in minutes.
- Planning context
- Key constraints
- Next steps
How It Works
Search by address
Draw your red-line boundary on the map
Get a one-page PDF report in under 30 seconds
What You Get
We capture the site address and title, your chosen boundary coordinates, the generation date, and a unique reference. This gives you a clear record of what was assessed and when.
A concise overview of key findings from the planning context with immediate recommended actions. Ideal for quickly sharing with stakeholders or briefing consultants.
Your red-line boundary is shown in situ to make the site location obvious. This helps reviewers understand context instantly and avoids ambiguity about the area assessed.
Core facts about the site such as area, access details and the presence of existing buildings. These are the practical basics needed for early feasibility decisions.
Relevant local plan status, policy areas and constraints that may influence design and deliverability. Use this section to steer early design assumptions and risk checks.
Designations and constraints (e.g. conservation areas, AQMA, priority areas) with clear references. This highlights what needs attention before proceeding further.
About Us
Our Story
PlotCheck started with a simple frustration.
Every new site begins the same way: a location, a red line, a set of plans and a long list of questions. What does policy say? What are the constraints? What are the red flags? And is the site actually worth pursuing?
But answering those questions was never quick. Planning context is spread across dozens of documents, policies contradict each other, constraints sit in separate datasets, and the first piece of meaningful advice often arrives days after a deal has already moved on.
We kept seeing the same pattern. Developers spending time and money chasing sites that were never viable. Architects drawing schemes before the planning context was clear. Decisions being made on instinct rather than evidence.
Early stage feasibility should not be the slowest part of a deal. It should be the fastest.
PlotCheck was built to change that.
We wanted a tool that could pull together planning context, constraints and policy signals into a single, clear report. Something that would give developers, architects and agents a quick way to sanity check a site before committing serious time and money.
PlotCheck is not here to replace planners or consultants. It is here to make early decisions smarter.
Meet The Team
Dan Cook MRICS
Dan is a chartered development surveyor specialising in residential-led regeneration and mixed-use development across London and the South East.
He works as a Development Manager for a major UK property developer, leading complex feasibility studies, development appraisals and commercial negotiations on multi-million-pound regeneration schemes. His role sits at the sharp end of site acquisition and early-stage decision making, where understanding site constraints, planning context, delivery risk and commercial viability quickly and accurately is critical.
Dan founded PlotCheck after experiencing first-hand how time consuming and fragmented early-stage site feasibility can be, and spotting the opportunity to simplify it through automation and AI. Too much time was being spent pulling information from multiple sources just to build a first view on whether a site was actually viable.
He holds a First Class Honours degree in Property and Real Estate Management and is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Outside of property, Dan hosts a monthy radio show where he plays a range of disco, funk and soul.
Our Mission
Our mission is to deliver instant, accessible site feasibility for every development opportunity.
We believe that understanding planning context and site constraints should be fast, clear and available from the very start of a deal. Too often, critical risks are buried in fragmented datasets, hidden in policy documents, or only uncovered after serious time and money has already been spent.
PlotCheck is built to bring planning context, constraints and early risk signals into a single, clear starting point. A way for developers, architects and land agents to quickly understand what a site can and cannot do before committing further.
Our vision is to become the trusted starting point for site feasibility on every development opportunity.
The first place you go to understand whether a site stacks up.
Our Values
Clarity over complexity
Development decisions should be made with clear, understandable information. We focus on plain English outputs that make planning context and site constraints easy to interpret, not buried in technical jargon.
Speed where it matters
Early stage decisions shape the entire lifecycle of a project. We believe feasibility should be fast, so teams can move quickly on good opportunities and walk away from bad ones early.
Accuracy and trust
Our tools are built on authoritative public datasets and grounded in how planning is applied in the real world. We take accuracy seriously and design our systems to surface risk, not hide it.
Transparency
Where judgement is required, we flag it. Where the data is incomplete, we say so. PlotCheck is designed to support better decisions, not pretend there is a single right answer.
Built for real development
Everything we build is shaped by real sites, real deals and real planning challenges. We design for how development actually works, not how planning data is stored.