Planning constraints
Nimbus offers a comprehensive range of tools to understand planning policy and environmental, heritage and strategic land constraints, including flood zones, listed buildings, conservation areas – and many more.
How it works
Use our tools to see constraints that might preclude your proposed development from getting consent.
- The info panel will alert you to properties that are listed, that flood or are in green belt or areas of natural beauty.
- Get further detail with our Location Analysis tool to see planning policy, environmental and heritage constraints overlayed on the map.


Info at a glance
Click on any property and immediately check if the property is listed, if it floods, is in a green belt or in an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB).
Planning policy
Plot planning policy directly on the map around your target site or search with the layers showing, to ensure you have a clear picture of what's possible on the site. Display green belt, settlement boundaries, Article 4 areas, agricultural land grade classification – and much more.


Environmental constraints
Overlay environmental constraints onto your map view, from flood zones to sites of special scientific interest (SSSI) and Special Protection Areas (SPAs).
Heritage constraints
Understand the heritage status of any property to ensure you understand the significance of the asset your are working on. See whether a site is listed, group listed, in a conservation area, a scheduled monument or close to a historic battlefield.


Strategic land
Plot SHLAA sites, brownfield land registers, Housing Delivery Tests information and more on the map to visually identify where the pockets of opportunity sit around a settlement.
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- Turning visitors into leads.
Other game-changing Nimbus features
Info panel
See all the information you need on a property in a single click – including ownership, property sizes, uses, values, planning applications, constraints, and more – saving you 80% of the time you would usually spend assessing a site.
Comparables
Our comparables tool for commercial and residential properties gives you existing use and land values, and predicted sales prices. Gain a complete picture of the value proposition to ensure your proposed scheme stacks up.
DTV Letter Sending
Our direct-to-vendor letter-sending tool is the final piece in the puzzle you need to unlock success buying off-market. Choose our default letter template, customise it to meet your needs, and then send it out at scale, greatly speeding up your search.
My Sites
Efficiently manage your property searches with our inbuilt Kanban-style project board. Use it to track updates and response rates and as the launchpad for direct-to-vendor letter campaigns.
Site finding filters
Match your unique property requirement to opportunities in any location using an array of easy-to-use filters or let us do the work for you with one of our inbuilt pre-defined strategies.
Planning search and alerts
Nimbus offers a comprehensive range of tools to find sites with or without planning and the ability to be alerted to any applications of interest in your target areas.
Having the capability through the software for live properties to update every 24 hours, it allows us to be on the front foot and get opportunities straight out to our franchise owners, it's really added value in that respect.
Kieran Smith
Senior Property & Relationship Manager, Anytime Fitness
Nimbus has allowed me to truly scale my property business - going from sourcing 3 sites a month using traditional methods to 600. And one of those I secured through Nimbus was 50% profit on GDV.
Dave Hartnett
CEO, Mounbatten Estates
Nimbus is ultimately the one-stop shop for us. Being able to overlay our Land Registry titles over Google satellite imagery really helps us to bring it all into one place.
Nick Rowland-Hill
Estate Development Manager
Nimbus allows us to get in front of clients and win business – it’s a must-have for us as an agent.
Edward Siddall-Jones
Director, Siddall Jones