Urban Intelligence

Urban Intelligence is an exciting startup business that provides innovative technological solutions and research tools for use in the preparation of planning applications in the UK. The planning system has historically been infamously slow, bureaucratic and labour-intensive, which has resulted in inefficient working practices, which we believe have a huge potential to be improved through the development of new technology-based products and services. We aim to make use of the wonderful opportunity provided by the “Big and Open Data Revolutions�, in order to achieve our goals, in developing a range of tools for professionals and organisations working in the development industry. These tools will be purposely created by a multi-disciplinary team with a range of experience in the development industry and carefully designed for users of all skill levels, with the aim of improving productivity, as well as saving valuable time and resources across the board. Our first service (currently in development) is a single database and search engine of the UK’s planning policy. This vital information has historically been dispersed across many bodies at different levels of government. The tool, the first of its kind in the UK, will give planners the ability to research the policies relevant to any given development proposal in minutes, using a simple form, with the potential to eliminate days of manual documentary research. Urban Intelligence has already gained support from inside and outside of the industry, and we were pleased to recently win the University College London (UCL) Advances Idea Accelerator Bright Ideas Award 2015.