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In development · Design partners wanted
A system of record for land
and master planning
Most planning authorities and master developers do not have a land problem or a mapping problem. They have a record problem — the authoritative answer to who holds what, what was consented, what was built, and who decided it, lives across a dozen systems and several people's memory.
Where this actually is
The platform is in development. This page is not selling a finished product, and there is no subscription to buy today. What is available now is a paid design-partner engagement — we build the first modules around one real statutory process, in one real organisation, and that organisation gets the platform shaped around how it actually works rather than how a vendor imagined it.
We hold the same rule for the platform that we hold for every resource in the catalogue: nothing is sold before the thing being sold exists.
What is being built
Six modules, in build order
Each is independently useful. A design partner starts with one or two, not all six.
Land record
Parcels, addresses, tenure, designations and lifecycle states, with a named custodian for every dataset and a history that survives staff turnover.
Development control
Application intake through consultation, assessment, decision and appeal — modelled as the process it actually is, with statutory deadlines tracked rather than remembered.
Master plan management
Scheme versions, phasing and the consented boundary, so compliance is measured against what was actually approved rather than against the latest drawing.
Site suitability
Constraint screening and weighted assessment with the weights written down, so an allocation decision can be defended when it is challenged.
Field & inspection
Mobile capture with coded condition and defect recording, geotagged evidence, and an evidence chain that still holds years later.
Governance & assurance
Quality scorecards, lineage, access review and an append-only audit trail — who decided what, on which version of which dataset, and when.
Built on open source
No vendor lock-in on the analysis layer
The mapping and analysis surface is GeoLibre, an MIT-licensed, cloud-native GIS platform with over a thousand geoprocessing tools that run client-side. We embed and configure it; we do not fork it and we do not charge you for it.
That matters for two reasons. Your analysts can use the same tooling outside our platform, at no cost, forever. And because processing runs in the browser, sensitive data can be analysed without leaving the machine it sits on.
GeoLibre is an independent open-source project. We are users and integrators of it, not its authors.
What we build around it
- The authoritative land record, in your own database
- Statutory workflow with tracked deadlines
- Server-enforced authorisation, not interface hiding
- Append-only audit of every decision
- Migration from whatever you hold today
- The standards and governance to keep it authoritative
A map is the window onto the record. The record is the asset.
Deployment
Your data, in your jurisdiction
Private instance
Your own deployment and your own database, hosted in a region you nominate.
On your infrastructure
Deployed inside your estate where land records cannot leave it.
Managed by us
We run it, with a stated response commitment and a documented recovery plan.
The first step
Land data assessment
Available now, independently of the platform. A structured review of what land and planning data you hold, how good it is, and what would have to be true before any system could be authoritative on top of it.
1
Inventory of land, address and planning datasets, with custodianship gaps identified
2
Quality scored across completeness, positional and attribute accuracy, currency and lineage
3
Your statutory process mapped as it actually runs, not as documented
4
A prioritised route to an authoritative record, costed and sequenced
Most organisations find the assessment worth having on its own. It is also how we establish whether a design partnership makes sense for either side.
Design partners
We are looking for a small number of planning authorities, master developers and land-holding organisations to build this with. You get the platform shaped around your process and preferential terms; we get a real statutory process to build against instead of an assumed one.
Direct: Support@thegeolab.digital