VU.CITY fOR Local Authorities

Make decisions with precision

Spend less time wondering how schemes will work and more time making decisions with clarity. Achieve the change for your city and communities that everyone wants to see.

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How can VU.CITY Help You?

Have more constructive communication during pre-app through shared 3D models. Improve planning committee presentations, from images to fully interactive demonstrations.

Make the best possible decision, faster

Bring site, scheme and planning information all together in one handy place and in a standardised digital format.

Quickly collate information

Scrutinise proposals in an interactive, accurate, neutral 3D model. Already trusted by over 50 UK and Ireland local authorities.

Standardise decision-making

Consider new applications interactively in 3D against consented developments to know if the proposal is the right fit.

Cut out guesswork

Identify opportunity sites and inform local policy. 3D visualization simplifies making decisions about site allocation and housing.

Improve consultation

An open and transparent visual experience helps everyone clearly see a scheme in context and understand how it will work.

Better engagement with communities

What can you do with VU.CITY?

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

"Historic England supports the use of digital planning tools such as VU.CITY in assessing changes to the historic environment. We regularly use VU.CITY to assist our negotiations with developers, and to support our planning advice, particularly regarding tall building proposals in London."

Alisdair Young

Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas - Historic England

“The Royal Borough of Kingston have been using VU.CITY to review major applications for a few years and it helps us to get a quick understanding of a proposal's height, scale and mass at an early stage which is invaluable in aiding discussions around context, appropriateness and agreeing key views required for visual impact assessment.”

Chloe Clay

Urban Design Manager - Kingston Council

"Salford has a busy planning team, which manages a high number of large-scale developments. It is essential that the best form of development is secured on the right sites in the city, and to help with that we have been using VU.CITY. Being able to work with digital models within the VU.CITY platform has enabled the team to assess their impact more quickly from viewpoints of our choice."

Martin Hodgson

Associate Director Planning and Building Control - Salford City Council

"I am delighted that we’ve secured a digital platform to help citizens visualize the ambitious plans we, and developers, have for Bristol. These exciting tools make for better quality engagement and a richer conversation about our vision for a more sustainable, inclusive city."

Marvin Rees

Mayor of Bristol

“Only very rarely do I come across a product that when I first see it I’m left wondering how we ever coped without it - VU.CITY is one of those products.”

Graeme Craig

Commercial Development Director - Transport for London

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