Planning leads for builders
Extensions, loft conversions, garages, annexes, new dwellings — the whole residential slice, in one saved search. Apply it, narrow it to the councils you work in, and write to the applicants.
A trade only gets a page here when the search returns at least 1,000 applications in 90 days and clears 20 in at least 35 separate councils. Two numbers, because one of them lies: solar clears the first on its own and has never once cleared the second, and a page built on the national total alone would promise something that becomes nothing wherever you actually work. Counted on 24 August 2026.
The saved search behind this page
This is not a marketing page with a query hidden behind it. Applying it writes a real saved search onto your account: change the councils, change the date window, change the decision state, rename it or throw it away.
What it filters on:
trade=builders.
Included in the £39 plan and on the free tier — it is not
a separate product and there is nothing extra to buy.
Where there is most of it
The busiest councils for this search in the last 90 days. Measured
- Birmingham 427 in 90 days
- Westminster 342 in 90 days
- Wandsworth 332 in 90 days
- Brent 285 in 90 days
- Edinburgh 262 in 90 days
- Southwark 258 in 90 days
- Bradford 254 in 90 days
- Havering 249 in 90 days
- Croydon 228 in 90 days
- Hounslow 220 in 90 days
- Waltham Forest 197 in 90 days
- Newham 195 in 90 days
Builders and general contractors by county and region
- Builders and general contractors in London 4,639 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Scotland 1,289 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Hertfordshire 908 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Kent 848 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Northern Ireland 829 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Essex 822 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Greater Manchester 785 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Surrey 719 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in West Yorkshire 685 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Gloucestershire 659 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Wales 644 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in the West Midlands 644 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Leicestershire 516 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in West Sussex 501 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Cambridgeshire 488 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Lancashire 488 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Nottinghamshire 466 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Hampshire 425 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Berkshire 415 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Norfolk 358 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Bedfordshire 336 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in South Yorkshire 325 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Devon 317 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Staffordshire 281 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Somerset 266 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Oxfordshire 257 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Suffolk 254 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in East Sussex 250 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Dorset 224 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in North Yorkshire 215 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Cheshire 214 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Worcestershire 206 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Lincolnshire 197 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Northamptonshire 161 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in East Yorkshire 140 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Tees Valley 136 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Cumbria 133 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Derbyshire 122 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Warwickshire 111 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Tyne and Wear 100 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Wiltshire 72 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Buckinghamshire 57 in 90 days
- Builders and general contractors in Merseyside 28 in 90 days
Recent applications this search found
Straight from the councils' own registers, newest first. We show what was proposed and what happened to it. We never publish who applied or where they live — that is what an account is for.
- Single storey rear extension
- Single storey side extension. New dormer window to rear roof face.
- Erection of 5 metre deep single storey rear extension. Maximum height 3.9 metres, eaves height 3 metres
- Proposed garage conversion and access gate within garden wall
- Certificate of Lawfulness for the proposed erection of an outbuilding in rear garden for incidental use as store.
- Single storey rear extension which would extend beyond the rear wall of the original semi-detached dwelling house by 5.57 metres, for which the maximum height would be 2.95 metres and for which the height at the eaves w…
- Erection of a new detached dwelling house (Plot 2) comprising four bedrooms, associated parking, landscaping, in substitution of the dwelling approved under planning permission EPF/1023/23, which has been lawfully comme…
- Construction of a single storey side extension, conversion of existing detached garage and new glazed link.
- Certificate of Lawful Development for proposed loft conversion with rear dormer and front roof lights.
- INSTALLATION OF ROOF MOUNTED SOLAR PANELS TO NORTH-EAST AND SOUTH-WEST ELEVATIONS OF DWELLINGHOUSE (PARTIALLY RETROSPECTIVE)
- MODIFICATION OF SECTION 75 PLANNING OBLIGATION ASSOCIATED WITH PLANNING PERMISSION 14/P/3/0222 FOR THE ERECTION OF 7 DWELLINGHOUSES, 1 DETACHED GARAGE, SOAKAWAY SYSTEM AND FORMATION OF NEW ACCESS
- Loft conversion, rear dormer and front velux windows
That is 12 of 22,242. A free account shows every one of them.
Every trade we measured
- Extension specialists
- Architects and planning consultants
- Glaziers and window installers
- Landscapers and driveway contractors
- Loft and garage conversion specialists
- Shopfitters and commercial contractors
- Solar and renewables installers
- Kitchen and bathroom fitters
- Party wall surveyors
Or start from a place: every council we cover · by county and region.
What it costs
A free account searches every council we cover and posts a letter for £1.45. £39 a month puts the applicants' names and addresses in front of you with 30 letters included, then £1.20 each. Trade searches are part of the plan — there is no per-trade product and nothing extra to buy.