Blocktype, the residential planning platform helping to unlock the UK's housing pipeline, has announced a new round of investment led by Fuel Ventures to support the scaling of its data-driven planning solution. The pre-seed funding will be used to accelerate growth, expand partnerships, and support local authorities and developers in tackling one of the UK’s most urgent challenges: building the right homes, in the right places, at the right time.
With 1.5 million new homes needed across the country, Blocktype is redefining how housing is planned for by bridging the critical gap between national housing targets, viability and local infrastructure realities. Using machine learning, spatial analysis, and planning policy data, Blocktype helps decision-makers navigate the complexities of multiple layers of planning policy and respond to governments urgent call to build more homes faster.
Blocktype de-risks the process for housebuilders applying for planning permission. The platform provides pre-designed, policy compliant components for houses, apartment blocks, streets, parking spaces and more making it incredibly easy for them to design, test and collaborate on site layouts. All this whilst getting instant feedback on viability, infrastructure and sustainability metrics of their development proposals.
Founded by a team with deep experience in planning, PropTech, and government advisory, Blocktype is already working with local authorities and housing bodies to help them better understand housing capacity. The platform gives users a geospatial, policy-aware lens on development potential to automate what was once a fragmented, manual, and highly political process.
