Combine the power of community engagement and spatial planning to meet your future housing and development needs.
Objective Keyplan empowers local planning authorities to digitise the entire site assessment process, all from one platform.
Gather evidence directly from the community
Through interactive mapping, capture citizen-led site proposals by allowing the community to drop pins, draw boundaries, and comment on a site. This interactive mapping directly feeds into your evidence base, providing full spatial and contextual detail.
Works with your GIS, your way
Objective Keyplan integrates with your corporate GIS system to create a cohesive, mappable evidence layer.
Faster, smarter reviews
Manage all site submissions in one place, speeding up the review process with built-in versioning, redaction and keyword tagging.
Consolidate all site data into one single source of truth, eliminating duplication, conflicting records, and dispersed data sources.
Streamlined important & manual capture
Bring in existing datasets or manually create new entries, ensuring no potential site is missed in your evidence base, regardless of its source.
Structured, auditable, and spatial evidence
Collect structured data via templated question sets, store supporting files, log expert commentary, and run spatial checks. All site evaluations are recorded in a detailed timeline.
Update at scale
Keeping your evidence base current. Make large-scale changes to site records with the Bulk Update capability.
Create relationships between sites and your corporate GIS, planning policies, and consultation events - enabling fully contextualised evidence gathering across teams and platforms.
Confident, evidence-based comparisons
Instantly compare sites side by side to uncover patterns, prioritise effectively, and make evidence-based planning decisions.
Custom views for powerful data insight
Instantly create tabular views of your site data - making it easy to visualise, search, and filter across all sites for focused evidence gathering.
Seamless import & export for collaborators
Bulk important data from external partners and easily export datasets for reporting or analysis.
Through integration, submissions are linked to individuals and organisations, providing a full audit trail of every planning policy interaction to help inform and shape your plan.
Publish and engage with your community
Instantly publish site data and maps for community consultation directly to your portal. Drive transparent community consultation by creating links to evidence.
Evidence-based transparency
Ensure your plan is robust and inspection-ready. Create clear connections between the community input and policy decisions.
We've become much more efficient in gathering together consultation data and GIS data in the same place when we are wanting people to evaluate and critique sites.
It really is the holy grail of planning to be able to click on a site and comment directly on it.
Peter Alexander
Senior Planning Technician, Highland Council
Capture, process, register and surface development sites. Then link it directly to your draft plan.
Build a GIS Site Library showing all assessment criteria and outcomes.
Leverage your corporate GIS systems alongside Keyplan - bridging internal tools and external inputs into a cohesive, mappable evidence layer.
Create your own queries to include specialist assessments. Easily manage sites with a pass-fail outcome.
With a comprehensive Site Library, input the GIS data to your draft plans and policies.
Eliminate the need for manual assesment processes that drain officer time and additional costly technology.
Community members use our intuitive web portal to submit sites directly. The process includes:
Objective is built to work seamlessly with major GIS platforms. Integration options include:
Preservation of existing coordinate systems and projections
It works with your existing GIS systems, it offers planning-focused features that standard GIS lacks:
Our built-in spatial analysis capabilities automatically check submitted sites against your planning constraints, including flood zones, conservation areas, infrastructure proximity, and other geographic factors. This provides instant validation and flags potential issues early in the assessment process.
One tool to register, capture, process and surface proposed development sites.
