Planning leads for shopfitters and commercial contractors
Commercial fit-out is a real slice of the register and it is not evenly spread: it clusters in town centres and thins to nothing across most district councils.
We are not selling leads for shopfitters and commercial contractors
This search returns 2,720 applications in the last 90 days, spread across 299 councils — and reaches 20 in only 23 of them. Measured
Our bar for a trade page is 1,000 applications in 90 days and 20+ in at least 35 councils. This one is short on spread — 20+ in 23 councils, needs 35. So this page is kept out of search results and we are not going to tell you there is a market here that our own data cannot find.
Why, in this trade's case: An internal fit-out with no change of use and no new shopfront needs no planning permission, so the register sees the jobs that alter the outside or the use, not the ones that alter the inside.
We would rather publish this than a page of numbers we made up. The figures above are counted on 24 August 2026 and this page turns itself on the day they clear the bar — no deploy, nobody's attention.
What to search instead
- Builders and general contractors 22,242 in 90 days
- Extension specialists 13,222 in 90 days
- Glaziers and window installers 6,348 in 90 days
- Architects and planning consultants 6,308 in 90 days
Every trade we measured
- Builders and general contractors
- Extension specialists
- Architects and planning consultants
- Glaziers and window installers
- Landscapers and driveway contractors
- Loft and garage conversion specialists
- 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.