VU.CITY FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES
MAKE DECISIONS WITH PRECISION
Spend less time wondering how schemes will work and more time making decisions with clarity. Achieve the change for your city and communities that everyone wants to see.
HOW CAN VU.CITY HELP YOU?
Make the best possible decision, faster
Have more constructive communication during pre-app through shared 3D outputs for all project stakeholders to collaborate on. Improve planning committee presentations, from images, 360 outputs and fully interactive demonstrations.
Quickly collate information
Identify opportunity sites and inform local policy. 3D visualisation simplifies making decisions about site allocation and housing.
Standardise decision-making
Scrutinise proposals in an interactive, accurate, neutral 3D model. Already trusted by over 50 UK and Ireland local authorities.
Cut out guesswork
Consider new applications interactively in 3D against consented developments to know if the proposal is the right fit.
Improve consultation
Identify opportunity sites and inform local policy. 3D visualisation simplifies making decisions about site allocation and housing.
Better engagement with communities
An open and transparent visual experience helps everyone clearly see a scheme in context and understand how it will work.
In your words
“The Royal Borough of Kingston have been using VU.CITY to review major applications for a few years and it helps us to get a quick understanding of a proposal's height, scale and mass at an early stage which is invaluable in aiding discussions around context, appropriateness and agreeing key views required for visual impact assessment.”
Chloe Clay
Urban Design Manager - Kingston Council
“VU.CITY is a valuable tool used in the development of our Local Plan at a time of unprecedented growth. It has brought a level of transparency that has helped us understand the impact of development on the character of our areas. This in turn is allowing us to create policies and develop aspirations for sites that are robust and tested, and is helping us to meaningfully engage with our communities.”
Tania Drew
Urban Design Officer - Waltham Forest Council
"Salford has a busy planning team, which manages a high number of large-scale developments. It is essential that the best form of development is secured on the right sites in the city, and to help with that we have been using VU.CITY. Being able to work with digital models within the VU.CITY platform has enabled the team to assess their impact more quickly from viewpoints of our choice."
Martin Hodgson
Associate Director Planning and Building Control - Salford City Council
"I am delighted that we’ve secured a digital platform to help citizens visualize the ambitious plans we, and developers, have for Bristol. These exciting tools make for better quality engagement and a richer conversation about our vision for a more sustainable, inclusive city."
Marvin Rees
Mayor of Bristol
"Historic England supports the use of digital planning tools such as VU.CITY in assessing changes to the historic environment. We regularly use VU.CITY to assist our negotiations with developers, and to support our planning advice, particularly regarding tall building proposals in London."
Alisdair Young
Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas - Historic England
TOP TOOLS FOR PLANNING OFFICERS
Building remover and create tool
See where development opportunities could take place to help inform local policy. Present Councillors with conceptual understanding and evidence-based research for development targets.
Accurate measurement tools
Measure the AOD height of proposed schemes.
Receive and review proposals
View 3D proposals to assess a scheme’s merit in a fully interactive, accurate context. Ideal from pre-app to planning applications.
Data layers
Consider proposals in conjunction with conservation areas, listed buildings, protected views, flood risks and more.
Consented schemes timeline
See approved schemes to understand how proposals will fit within the existing context and what will be acceptable in the future.
Camera placer and studies
Conduct high-level townscape and visual impact assessments. Agree on key views to scrutinise further.
Scope, design and collaborate with VU.CITY
Everyone has the power to collaborate on the 3D outputs of VU.CITY. Seamlessly communicate with stakeholders, project teams and planning decision makers instantly to make better design & planning decisions, faster.
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