Guildford

VU.CITY Guildford is a stunning 3D landscape that’s accurate to within 15cm. Users of our Guildford model are making better, faster decisions by exploring potential massing and designs in context to opportunities and constraints.

Now all stakeholders can collaborate with VU.CITY Guildford on solutions for smarter decisions and project success.

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22sq km

MODELLED TO 15CM ACCURACY

102,672

TREES, ACCURATE TO HEIGHT & CANOPY

31,362

Buildings

VU.CITY Guildford For You

Key Features

Coverage

Guildford town centre is historic, with striking topography and attractive vistas into it from the surrounding countryside and the Surrey Hills.Guildford has a number of important key landmarks; the prominent Cathedral is found on Stag Hill, and the town’s distinct medieval castle lies to the centre, with landscaped gardens, and important views across Guildford from its square tower.

Visualisation is key in Guildford, as development must be sensitive to key landmark buildings, with a number of strategic views to be considered from the river Wey, towards the town and in the town centre itself.

Users of VU.CITY Guildford include Guildford Borough Council, JTP, Leonard Design Architects, and Hawkins\Brown who have already discovered the model’s many benefits, from being able to understand and assess a site’s opportunities and challenges, testing refined designs in context, enhancing planning applications and conversations, to improving how everyone involved collaborates.

VU.CITY Guildford: Highlights

Create, edit and assess massing

Easily test massing to understand design feasibility.

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Consented Schemes Timeline

Realise a site’s potential by viewing and assessing recently consented developments across Guildford.

Test Massing

Assess multiple initial massing options at an early stage and GEA potential quickly.

Import Designs

Easily import your designs from external 3D software (such as Revit, Rhino, SketchUp & 3ds Max) into the Guildford model and test how they will work in situ.

Sunlight Analysis

Quickly view and assess the initial impact of light from your proposed developments.

Conduct high-level townscape and visual impact assessments with an accurate 3D model of Guildford.

Camera Studies and Presenter Tool

Conduct high-level townscape and visual impact assessments. Agree on key views to analyse further. Select key views and confidentially present your proposals to take stakeholder on the journey of design.

Zone of Theoretical Visibility

Save time by eliminating unnecessary views for analysis. Understand where your scheme can be seen from and which views are critical to assess.

Work more collaboratively on designs with VU.CITY's 3D model of Guildford

Annotate with Tags

Mark up comments and actions and easily collaborate on a site or scheme with project team members.

Data Layers

Brownfield Sites

Consented Schemes Timeline

Conservation Areas

Greenbelt

Locally Listed Buildings

Tree Preservation Orders

Trees

Energy Performance Certificates

Land Registry Query

Guildford Coverage

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Create smart cities the smart way

VU.CITY helps organise, visualise, and analyse city data in the clearest and most accessible way to make better decisions.

VU.CITY covers the whole of London and 23 major UK and international cities.

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

Transform design and planning

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

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

Communicate complex spatial arrangements

Make documentation stand up and stand out

Speed up planning conversations

Strengthen relationships

Create winning submissions

In your words

“We’re bringing in architects and our clients and different consultants in one room and we’re viewing the drawing, the architecture and the massing through VU.CITY.”

Charlotte Orrell

Senior Planner at Iceni Projects

"VU.CITY gives us the full visual story in a matter of seconds."

Paul Finch

Editor - Architects Journal

"The digitisation of planning as outlined in the Whitepaper presents an exciting step in speeding up the planning process and improving engagement with communities. We are already working with VU.CITY and some of our local authority partners to be a leader in digital consultation in line with the ambitions outlined in the new government Whitepaper."