Freestart
Websites, online shops and getting found, for businesses across the UK. Our design team builds each site, our development team runs the system it sits on, and our support team helps customers keep it up to date.
Brands: Freestart
Four divisions. One company. Since 1999.
Websites, planning guidance and the platforms behind them.
Freestart plc is a UK company, incorporated in 1999. We run four divisions: Freestart, which designs and builds websites and online shops for businesses; Planning Handbook, which publishes planning and building-regulation guidance; SiteWorks, our website platform and the products built on it; and freestart.ai, which builds the systems the group runs on and takes on new AI work for other businesses.
Freestart plc
Freestart Public Limited Company · 03855529
Websites, online shops and getting found, for businesses across the UK.
Planning and building-regulation guidance, organised by region and local authority.
The platform behind our websites, and the products built on it.
- SiteWorkssiteworks.cloud
- VideoWorksvideoworks.planninghandbook.com
- BrandWorks — in development
Your site, your enquiries and what’s left to do, on one screen The systems the group runs on, and new AI work for other businesses.
Divisions
The four divisions
Planning HandbookPlanning Handbook group
Planning and building-regulation guidance, organised by region and local authority. Planning Handbook has published guidance for planning applicants since 2016. PlanningAssist answers a planning question with the sources behind it. PlanningConsult checks the planning constraints on a site from its postcode.
Brands: Planning Handbook · PlanningAssist · PlanningConsult
SiteWorks group
The platform behind our websites, and the products built on it. SiteWorks runs businesses’ websites, fully managed or in the owner’s own hands. VideoWorks turns photographs of a business’s own work into short films. BrandWorks is in development.
Brands: SiteWorks · VideoWorks · BrandWorks (in development)
freestart.ai
The engineering arm of Freestart plc. freestart.ai builds the systems the group runs on: CallHub, TrainingHub and ProspectHub on the sales floor, and PlanningAssist and PlanningConsult for planning. It also takes on new AI work for other businesses: agents and software that cut manual work.
Brands: freestart.ai
How we work
Three plain statements
- We build our own products.The platforms behind our websites, films and planning tools are made and run by our own teams.
- We say what a product does and what it doesn’t.Planning Handbook explains the rules; it doesn’t make planning decisions or give legal advice.
- One company stands behind every name.Planning Handbook, SiteWorks, VideoWorks and freestart.ai are trading names of Freestart plc.
- Registered name
- Freestart Public Limited Company
- Company number
- 03855529
- Incorporated
- 8 October 1999
- Registered office
- 12 Lord Street, Wigan, Lancashire WN1 2BN
- Type
- Public limited company, registered in England and Wales
- Divisions
- Freestart · Planning Handbook · SiteWorks · freestart.ai
Customer help
The right door
Already a customer? Help for each division is on its own site.
Freestart customers
Websites, online shops, email and domains
Planning Handbook
Featured contacts and handbook enquiries
SiteWorks
Platform customers
freestart.ai
New work for other businesses
Press, partnerships and company enquiries
Freestart plc