Liverpool

VU.CITY Liverpool is revolutionising the design and planning process.

VU.CITY's 15cm accurate, fully interactive and immersive model of Liverpool creates a virtual environment in which to test new ideas, with rich functionality and data, and lead to a clear understanding of what’s proposed for better decision-making and positive outcomes.

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82sq km

MODELLED TO 15CM ACCURACY

232,239

TREES, ACCURATE TO HEIGHT & CANOPY

95,447

Buildings

VU.CITY Liverpool For You

Key Features

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Liverpool has an impressive cultural heritage, with magnificent buildings including two striking cathedrals and neoclassical St George's Hall. Its ongoing urban regeneration programme is transforming what was once a dilapidated city centre into one of northern England’s most pleasant cities. The future of the Liverpool City Region is full of excitement: a region worth £23bn annually to UK PLC with an array of forthcoming billion-pound regeneration schemes and multi-million-pound development initiatives.

Digitisation of planning and design will be crucial to proposals becoming a reality. By using VU.CITY, architects and developers can easily view the feasibility of a proposed project in context and understand the visual impact on Liverpool’s listed buildings early on.

The regeneration is also the opportunity to enable open discussion and collaboration on some of the most exciting schemes in the North West built environment. VU.CITY enables architects, planners and developers to make presentations and reports of exceptional clarity with multiple high quality images to increase understanding, support and buy-in by clients and local planning officers.

Architects, planners and developers use VU.CITY Liverpool to address fundamental questions around planning and development such as ‘What will the development look like?’, 'Who will it affect?’, 'How might it affect them?’ Our 3D model of Liverpool helps every party involved to organise, visualise and analyse city data in the clearest and most accessible way to get the right answers to make the best decisions.

VU.CITY Liverpool: Highlights

Create, edit and assess massing

Easily test massing to understand design feasibility.

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Test Massing

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

Consented Schemes Timeline

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

Import Designs

Easily import your designs from external 3D software (such as Revit, Rhino, SketchUp & 3ds Max) into the Liverpool 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 Liverpool.

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 Liverpool

Annotate with Tags

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

Scope, Design & Collaborate

VU.CITY's project collaboration space, the Hub, allows you to seamlessly communicate with stakeholders, to make better design & planning decisions, faster.

Data Layers

Consented Schemes Timeline

Listed Buildings

Trees

Land Registry Query

Energy Performance Certificates

Liverpool 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."