About

You should not have to guess what your council wants.

Wren shows you every constraint on your site for nothing, drafts the documents your application needs against your own council's policies, and puts a chartered planner in front of them before anything is filed.

Layers given away, not metered
88Layers given away, not metered
Authorities covered
378Authorities covered
Cost of the data half, for ever
£0Cost of the data half, for ever
What the incumbents charge, a month
£150 to £700What the incumbents charge, a month

Why it exists

The information exists. It is just scattered.

Flood zones sit with the Environment Agency. Listed buildings sit with Historic England. The policies that will actually decide your application sit in a PDF on your council’s own website, and there are 378 councils.

Getting an application right means holding all of it at once, which is why it has always been work for someone who does it every day. The cost of that is not the professional time. It is the hours before it, spent finding out what applies.

Wren assembles the intelligence in one place and drafts against it, so the chartered planner who reads your documents is reviewing work that is already good rather than starting from nothing. That is the whole idea, and everything else here follows from it.

The bet

Sell work, not software.

Every incumbent sells a seat: you pay monthly whether you make an application or not, and what you are buying is access to material that is already public. We give that half away, and charge for the part where work actually happens.

Every figure we charge

What it isElsewhereWren
The data£150 to £700 a monthFree
An account to lookRequiredNot required
A completed applicationYour own timeDrafted and signed
What you pay forA seatAn application

Who is behind it

One person, so far.

Wren was founded by Gideon Shonaike and is built in London. It is the service he wanted when he needed a planning application done properly, and the chartered planners who review and sign the work are independent professionals paid per case.

What a chartered signature means

Contact

Talk to a person.