Welcome to herewise

Most of what's genuinely useful to know about a place — planning applications, council decisions, crime trends, school ratings, recent sale prices — is public. It's just scattered across a dozen different council pages, register searches and government datasets, each with its own search box and its own quirks.

herewise puts it in one place, organised by postcode rather than by which department happens to publish it.

Starting with Croydon

We're launching with Croydon, going deep on one borough before spreading wide. Every section — Planning, Council, Decisions, Crime, Schools, Spending, Air Quality, and the postcode-level My Street view — is built against real, live Croydon data rather than a demo dataset.

More boroughs are coming. See About for what herewise is for, and each borough's Sources page for exactly where its data comes from.