Street-level intelligence for urban green infrastructure
Urban Biome Ltd · Geovation Spring 2026 · GeoTech
The problem
Heat islands, vegetation loss, air quality trends — at 10m resolution, updated monthly
Planters, street trees, rain gardens, green walls — small-scale green infrastructure is invisible to remote sensing
Type, design, condition, issues — verified street-level records with ownership linked via OS data
The evidence
Climate Change Committee's assessment of UK urban greening progress, 2025
of Local Planning Authorities have 0.5 or fewer ecologists on staff
ALGE-ADEPT 2022
national datasets tracking the condition of public realm green infrastructure
Why now
Regulatory demand is outpacing data infrastructure supply. The window is open.
Biodiversity Net Gain introduces long-term monitoring obligations councils cannot yet fulfil.
Planning & Infrastructure Act and Local Nature Recovery Strategies require clearer habitat baselines.
Local authorities face rising climate adaptation pressure with constrained budgets.
Public demand for measurable environmental action is increasing. CCC scored urban greening "unable to evaluate."
Mature satellite data and cloud infrastructure now enable scalable environmental intelligence at startup cost levels.
The solution
Property-resolution stress mapping from Earth observation data, updated monthly
Verified street-level green infrastructure records — type, design, condition, issues — with ownership auto-linked via OS data
Where to invest next. Which assets are underperforming. Which areas need greening most — at street and property scale.
How it works
Each dataset alone is partial. Aggregated for one asset, they compound into intelligence greater than the sum of parts.
How it works
Five environmental layers. Each has a threshold. Where multiple layers exceed their threshold, we surface priority zones.
The product — Dashboard
Validation
Structured condition data no existing dataset captures. Live in Bristol with 6 community volunteers.
Satellite indices, OS basemaps, and community ground-truth — all flowing, all integrated.
Entire platform runs on serverless. National scale is achievable without national-scale costs.
Bristol BID confirmed willingness to pilot high-street planting monitoring.
Market
Business model
Open map access and community participation. The evidence base.
Decision intelligence to support capital allocation. Scaled by city size and data scope.
Each city compounds a national habitat dataset. Additional modules for housing associations and developers in later phases.
The team
Reuben brings over 15 years of hands-on experience in construction and landscaping, giving him a grounded understanding of how green infrastructure is delivered — and where it often falls short.
He architected and built the Urban Biome platform end-to-end, from high-resolution satellite processing pipelines to street-level data capture and Ordnance Survey integration.
Manon brings over 10 years' experience in climate resilience and sustainable development. A Chartered Environmentalist, she translates environmental risk and spatial data into targeted urban greening strategies. At Urban Biome, she leads strategic direction and public-sector positioning, turning environmental intelligence into action on the ground.
Roadmap
143 assets, 6 volunteers, 3 data streams integrated
OS NGD Enhanced Land Cover integration, council design input, first pilot
Pro dashboard, £40–60k ARR, grant stacking
£150–250k raise, 10–15 councils, £100–150k ARR
Data licensing, central gov, insurers, utilities
The ask
Four blockers. One programme solves all four.
We need to sit with council officers. Geovation's network gives us the room.
OS NGD Enhanced Land Cover is architecturally critical. Our product is better with it — and it gets a showcase.
Council procurement is labyrinthine. Alumni who've navigated it are the missing guide.
Funds the first council pilot. If grants slip, our £500/yr infrastructure means runway is long.
Green infrastructure is planted then forgotten.
We make it visible, monitored and actionable.