Urban Planning Software, Built for the Way Planners Actually Work

    Bring available neighbourhood evidence into one review for planners, local authorities and masterplanners. Keep policy status, source coverage, access assumptions and unresolved questions visible when comparing sites.

    Organise the evidence for a planning review

    Planning work draws on official maps, policy documents, GIS analysis and specialist evidence. Atlasly helps organise an early review; the appropriate statutory and professional checks remain part of the project.

    Evidence to review where available

    • Walking-access estimates with travel-time and routing assumptions
    • National and local policy references checked for date and applicability
    • Floor-area and density assumptions checked against local policy
    • Transport and active-travel context, with official PTAL checked separately where relevant
    • Site comparison using documented criteria and evidence
    • Available environmental and heritage layers with coverage gaps recorded
    • Supported exports checked for format, units, coordinates and completeness

    Urban planning software vs. a general-purpose site analysis tool

    A general site analysis tool tells you what is on a site. Urban planning software has to tell you what is on a site, what policy says about it, how the surrounding network performs, and how this site compares to others in the same authority. Atlasly is built for the second case. Check each output against the policy, network data and assumptions actually available for that site.

    Interpret walking-access estimates carefully

    Review the travel time, walking speed, origin and available route data behind each accessibility estimate. A returned network polygon does not establish that every counted amenity is reachable within it; some calculations use radius counts, and routing may fall back to a circular estimate. Verify barriers, crossings, opening hours and accessibility on the ground before drawing a planning conclusion.

    Policy compliance you can actually defend

    Check each policy finding against its cited source, current version and geographical scope before using it in a committee or pre-application review. Missing or conflicting evidence needs explicit follow-up; a returned answer is not proof that every applicable policy has been checked.

    Multi-criteria scoring for site selection

    Local authorities and masterplanners often need to rank dozens of candidate sites against the same criteria (allocation potential, infrastructure capacity, biodiversity risk, heritage sensitivity). Define and record consistent criteria and weights, preserve source evidence for each site, and confirm the available operations before automating a comparison. Review the integration publication status.

    Common workflows

    • Neighbourhood plan evidence base
    • Local plan call-for-sites triage
    • Pre-application screening for LAs
    • Masterplan baseline analysis
    • 15-minute city audits and healthy streets reviews
    • Density and capacity studies for housing delivery

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