For developers, planning consultants and site advisers
Every rule change that touches a data centre in England, with its source, every Monday.
Gridwyn reads GOV.UK, legislation.gov.uk, the Planning Inspectorate, Ofgem, NESO and the councils' registers every day, keeps a stored copy of each source, and sends what matters in a weekly digest on Monday morning, or the same day when it cannot wait. Every figure opens to the record behind it; every published change carries a quote checked word for word.
A site, checked in seconds
A postcode, a grid reference or coordinates gives the planning authority and the parish; what is left at the nearest substations, in the network operator's own figures, with the operator's stated reason and the date works are due; the national register's queue at the supply point; the flood zone, green belt, nutrient catchments and designations at the point; and how the authority has dealt with data centre schemes. Several sites go side by side on one page, and each prints as a one-page report.
Every planning authority, scored on nine dimensions
Permitting timeline, grid connection access, zoning and policy clarity, water constraints, environmental review burden, tax and incentives, community consultation burden, political risk and regulatory change velocity. Each dimension is a rule over a public record, stated in full, and each score opens to its inputs. The method is versioned, and a change is adopted only after it has been compared with the method before it on the same day's data.
What changed this week
A Monday digest and a daily feed: consultations opened and closed, decisions, instruments made, local plan stages, data centre schemes received and decided, nationally significant cases and their statutory clocks. It leads with what a data centre developer is to act on or to know; the rest is in the feed. Organisations watch their own topics, authorities and cases.
How it is built
- Read daily: GOV.UK (MHCLG, DSIT, DESNZ, the Planning Inspectorate), legislation.gov.uk, the national infrastructure register and its document libraries, Ofgem, NESO's connection registers, planning.data.gov.uk and the councils' registers through PlanIt.
- Every item auditable: a quote, its position in the stored text, the source link and the date it was read. No summary without evidence.
- Facts and readings kept apart: a stage change on a register is a fact from two readings of the register; what a policy means is extracted by a model and published only when every quote verifies and a written policy admits it. Anything wrong is withdrawn with the reason on record, never deleted.
- Scores you can argue with: every authority is scored by a fixed rule over public records, and every number shows the record behind it. A model never scores anything.
Who it is for
Developers' land and planning leads, and the people who appraise their sites; planning consultancies, the director and the associates doing the appraisals; planning, energy and real estate teams in law firms; land promoters and agents for power-rich land; lenders, investors and their advisers doing due diligence on a site.
What it is not
It is information, not legal advice and not a connection offer. Grid figures are the distribution operators' published figures, on the basis each operator states; limits on the transmission system are in them only where the operator says so. It does not cover fibre, land prices or customers.
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