Place Analysis Tool for Health & Wellbeing
Understand community needs, local context, and baseline conditions with analysis delivered automatically. Configure your analysis once, and we'll process it in the background while you focus on the project. No waiting, no manual data collection. Place Analysis also brings together the place analytics and site analysis inputs teams often need early in the process.
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Comprehensive Place Analysis Features
Everything you need for health and wellbeing-focused planning across 10 key analysis themes, combining community needs analysis, place analytics, and site analysis inputs
Configure your analysis scope and buffer width to match your project needs. Choose between site context only or include on-site analysis, set buffer widths up to 3.6km, and see real-time previews on the map as you adjust settings. All powered by trusted data sources like Ordnance Survey and Open Street Maps.
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Perform initial assessments of social infrastructure capacity. Evaluate local provision of GPs, schools, and community spaces to anticipate constraints in your planning projects.
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Understand your local population with detailed estimates within your study area. Compare demographics, health conditions, and travel behaviour against national, regional, and local benchmarks. Population estimates are clearly attributed with data sources and dates.
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Identify and consider local health challenges. Conduct health impact assessments with place-based analysis that highlights key health indicators linked to local infrastructure.
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Evaluate local housing provisions using detailed location data. Visualise existing housing down to property level to identify patterns and potential issues that may have gone unnoticed.
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Create custom walking catchment areas to understand exactly who can reach key amenities. Generate walking-distance or time-based catchment areas (pedsheds) from any location, combine multiple catchments, and save your analysis for future reference. Export as GeoJSON or SVG for use in reports and presentations — no GIS expertise required!
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Place Analysis helps you understand the baseline: community needs, local context, services, access, and population conditions around a site.
Best for early understanding
Use Place Analysis when you need evidence for briefs, feasibility, early design thinking, or community-informed planning decisions.
Use Health Impact Assessment next
Once you understand the place, move into Health Impact Assessment to turn that evidence into a structured review, appraisal, and decision-making process.
Why Choose Place Analysis
Automate community needs and local context analysis with powerful features that save time and improve decision-making
Automated Analysis
Reduce manual data collection time. Our system processes complex spatial analysis automatically and notifies you when complete.
Visual Insights
Interactive charts, maps, and visualisations make complex data easy to understand and present to stakeholders.
Benchmark Comparison
Compare your site against national, regional, district, and ward standards to identify strengths and gaps.
Flexible Configuration
Customise analysis scope, buffer widths, and catchment areas to match your specific project requirements.
Export Capabilities
Export charts as CSV, catchment areas as GeoJSON or SVG, and generate print-ready reports with all your analysis.
Real-Time Monitoring
Track analysis progress, retry failed tasks, and receive email notifications when your analysis is ready.
Trusted by Leaders
Making an Impact Across the UK
"Worcester is divided by canals, rivers, and motorways – and so on. In the past, the last planning consultant doing this missed out on those disconnections. The shortfall in the past was measured as a shortfall that was not covered. PlaceChangers enabled a complicated analysis in an easy and web-based interface. It showed us that the new play sites are valuable and would be maintained."
"PlaceChangers place analytics tool, provided a streamlined and highly efficient way of collating information for our report. The tool’s ability to contextualise and aggregate housing and health data ensured our HIA was robust and actionable and accepted by the council."
"The PlaceChangers Place Analytics tool provided a wealth of structured data instrumental in our design quality assessment. Having all this information readily available in one place saved significant officer time and allowed us to provide evidence-backed recommendations for future residential sites. For the cost, it was an invaluable resource that streamlined our analysis and will strengthen our future design policies."
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