Global property and planning consultancy Avison Young shares how Searchland supports their planning workflows and helps them maintain their competitive edge.
Avison Young is a global property and planning consultancy with over 100 offices across 19 countries. They use Searchland to support their planning team, enhance their service delivery and maintain their position as industry leaders in a fast-moving sector.
How Avison Young uses Searchland:
- Comprehensive planning data access in one platform
- Consolidated policy maps, local plans and planning history
- Efficient site appraisals with reliable data
- Enhanced capacity to deliver best-in-class planning services
"Policy maps, local plans and planning history, all in one place"
Paul Harwood, Associate Director at Avison Young, and his team use Searchland to gather key planning data from council websites, understand planning constraints, planning policy and source planning history for sites across the country.
Searchland consolidates everything into a single platform, providing a comprehensive, holistic and reliable database which is an invaluable tool to Avison Young as they provide best-in-class planning services.
"We'd check policy maps, local plans, flood risk maps - all separately. Now it's in one place which is an incredibly useful tool for our role as planning advisors."
Supporting the next generation of planning professionals
Searchland's intuitive platform enables Avison Young to invest in their team's development whilst maintaining service excellence.
"Searchland supports our team as we focus on developing core planning skills"
Graduate and junior planners use Searchland to access comprehensive planning data, allowing them to focus on building their planning expertise and competencies. "The platform provides our team with the tools they need to develop skills that make a real difference in delivering quality planning advice," Paul explains.
Finding precedents and insights across multiple councils
Searchland's text search through planning documents helps the Avison Young team deliver informed, evidence-based advice to clients.
"We can instantly find relevant applications across multiple councils"
Paul shares an example: "When we needed to understand how councils treat padel courts in the green belt, we used Searchland to find every relevant application across multiple councils instantly. This depth of research supports the quality advice we provide to clients."
With comprehensive planning data consolidated in one platform, Avison Young can deliver thorough, well-researched planning advice that helps their clients succeed.
"Searchland is an invaluable tool for delivering best-in-class planning services"
Quotes from Paul Harwood, Associate Director at Avison Young
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