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The best possible City for all

About VU.CITY

THE NEED FOR CHANGE

Populations are growing and cities need better planning, decision-making and investment.

With 50,000+ planning applications made each year, and major ones taking between one and six years to determine, it’s time for change.

It’s time for a faster and fairer process for all.

MAKING THE DIFFERENCE

MAKING THE DIFFERENCE

Making the best possible cities tomorrow means making the best possible decisions today.

VU.CITY is a smart city planning platform that transforms decision-making by building collaboration and trust. Everyone involved can view designs and data interactively and in context, understand exactly what’s being proposed and why, and have their say in the challenges and solutions.

Our 3D platform helps you make decisions and understand the impact of change in cities and on the environment. Together, we can create a more resilient future in which to live, work and enjoy.

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Create smart cities the smart way

VU.CITY helps you visualize, organise and analyse data clearly and easily so that everyone involved can make better and quicker decisions.

VU.CITY covers the whole of London and 25 major UK and international cities.

Transform design and planning

Quickly identify and appraise sites. VU.CITY's visualization, design functionality and planning data, allow you to optimise your designs.

Transform design and planning

Build trust and collaboration

Now everyone involved can have a clear, universal understanding of what’s proposed and why, in a single, secure place. VU.CITY makes decision-making democratic and fair.

Build trust and collaboration

Improve
outcomes

Remove barriers and minimise risks early. Have confidence in your designs and plans. Increase buy-in for project success.

Improve outcomes

Test out ideas in situ, from one building to a masterplan. Create your vision and submissions with confidence.

Collate site information in one place

Collate site information in one place

Communicate complex spatial arrangements

Communicate complex spatial arrangements

Make documentation stand up and stand out

Make documentation stand up and stand out

Speed up planning conversations

Speed up planning conversations

Strengthen relationships

Strengthen relationships

Create winning submissions

Create winning submissions

Discover where there is potential for change, and help everyone easily understand what’s involved and why.

Collate site information in one place

Collate site information in one place

Communicate complex spatial arrangements

Communicate complex spatial arrangements

Speed up the planning process

Speed up the planning process

Speed up planning conversations

Speed up planning conversations

Strengthen relationships

Strengthen relationships

Create winning submissions

Create winning submissions

Reduce guesswork and unwanted costs – make the right decisions for the right outcomes, faster.

Appraise site capacity and viability, faster

Appraise site capacity and viability, faster

Save time and costs through collaboration

Save time and costs through collaboration

Reduce planning uncertainties; increase buy-in

Reduce planning uncertainties; increase buy-in

Speed up the planning process with better informed decisions

Speed up the planning process with better informed decisions

Sell or lease earlier to realise profits sooner

Sell or lease earlier to realise profits sooner

Understand designs and plans with ease, and make decisions with clarity to benefit your city and your communities.

Make the best possible decisions, quicker

Make the best possible decisions, quicker

Collate site, scheme and planning information in one place

Collate site, scheme and planning information in one place

Standardise decision-making

Standardise decision-making

Have informed and transparent conversations

Have informed and transparent conversations

Improve how you consult on policies and plans

Improve how you consult on policies and plans

Understand the cumulative effects of planning changes

Understand the cumulative effects of planning changes
RECENT AWARDS

RECENT AWARDS

IEG Future of Real Estate Award
VU.CITY Winners
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FEATURED IN

Smart cities need to enable and involve citizen-centric decisions.

Entrepreneurs: The VU.CITY team looking to shed some light on the matter of city planning.

4140 Parker Rd. Allentown, New Mexico 31134

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Our Users

Over 50 local authority users across the UK & Ireland

Dublin City Council
Belfast City Council 2015
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Cambridge City Council
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Over 90% of London's local authorities

Kingston
Tower Hamlets
City Of Westminster
Waltham Forest
Southwark

Used by leading architects, both big and small

Kappie
Bennetts Associates
Foster Partners
Make
All Ford Hall Monaghan Morris
Geraghty Taylor
Hawkins Brown
BDP
Todd

Planners at the forefront of planning technology

Turley
Tibbalods
Mobatagu Evans
Peter Stewart Consultancy
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Etla
Citydesigner

Leading, forward-thinking developers and agents

Jll
Landsec
Savills
Lendlease
Canary Wharf
Taylor Wimpey
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In your words

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“Before, we would spend hours trawling sources looking for the historic buildings in our area, and even longer to take accurate measurements of surrounds. I cannot believe how much time this is going to save me.”

Oliver Bywater

Architect - Woods Bagot Architects
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“With VU.CITY on the table, it’s like the whole conversation just relaxes. It’s an independent resource we can rely on.”

James Felstead

Director - CGL Architects
David Barnett​

“VU.CITY helps us make faster decisions on site feasibility. With the platform’s tools and data, we can quickly understand site opportunities and constraints, work more collaboratively with the project team, community and local authority, ultimately helping us reduce risk and abortive costs throughout the planning process.”

David Barnett​

CEO & Founder - Londonewcastle
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"VU.CITY is not simply a 3D software offer, it's a four if not five dimensional space that incorporates live time and place capabilities. Going forward the synchronicity that VU.CITY provides to connect with other big data intelligence is an opportunity for urbanists to evidence with greater certainty, support for development or preservation initiatives."

Paul Stallan

Design Director - Stallan-Brand
Sir Stuart Lipton

"Development and architecture are embracing technology at a rapid rate but many ideas are impractical or premature and don’t work. The VU.CITY platform is already making an essential difference to design and planning decisions in London and clearly will go much further."

Sir Stuart Lipton

Co-founder - Lipton Rogers
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