S106 §1:100 · vendor

LandLens

Reviewed by Chartered Planner (MRTPI) and Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) · 2026-06-21
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LandLens is an AI-powered UK planning-intelligence and site-screening platform, not a dedicated viability-appraisal engine. It screens a site for planning constraints, flood risk, EPC and planning history, answers plain-English planning questions, and includes a residual appraisal calculator as a secondary feature. Pricing is published: Solo from £29.99/month excluding VAT.

Published pricing

Solo £29.99/month excluding VAT (1 seat); Professional £99/month (up to 3 seats); Enterprise quote-only; one-off Site Report £49. Source: landlens.co.uk/pricing (verified 2026-08-23). All prices exclude VAT and a 5-day free trial applies, after which a 3-month minimum term runs. Pay-as-you-go options sit alongside the subscriptions: a single Site Discovery search is £9.99, a Site Report £49 and a NeighbourID report £99.

Transparent list pricing. Solo £29.99/month is the cheapest published entry point; the estimator on this site does not adopt LandLens rates.

What LandLens actually does

LandLens is intelligence-first rather than appraisal-first. Its core is rapid site screening: it aggregates official UK data layers (planning constraints, flood risk, EPC, planning history and neighbour identification) and lets you interrogate them in plain English through its "Ask LandLens" assistant, returning a Site Verdict and exportable report. It positions itself against data platforms such as LandInsight and Nimbus Maps, not against the line-by-line appraisal engines Argus Developer and Aprao.

The residual appraisal calculator

A residual appraisal calculator is offered as a secondary feature: entering GDV, build cost, land price and finance terms returns profit on cost, residual land value and a viability verdict. On this feature the S106 and CIL load is a deduction line inside the residual sum, the same mechanic as any residual model. For a committee-grade Financial Viability Assessment most practitioners still take the chosen scenario into a dedicated appraisal tool.

Where it fits in an S106 workflow

LandLens is strongest at the acquisition-screening stage, before an appraisal is built: understand the planning constraints, flag whether affordable-housing or other obligations are likely, and size the opportunity. The detailed S106 negotiation and the viability case that supports it sit downstream in the appraisal and the deed itself.

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