Get care home planning applications the day councils publish

A full application for a purpose-built residential or nursing home is a whole building waiting for a team. Groundworks, frame, envelope, mechanical and electrical services, fire protection, lifts, fit-out and landscaping are all still to be let. If you build, design, supply or install, this is the application you call on first.

Extensions add bedrooms and add work

Operators extend to add bedrooms, dementia wings, lounges and dining space. These schemes move fast and run on a live site, so the operator wants contractors who know how to work alongside residents without disruption. Show that experience and you win the job and the next one.

Conversions turn existing buildings into care homes

Change of use applications turn large houses, former offices and other buildings into care homes. Each one needs strip-out, reconfiguration, new services, accessible bathrooms and a full fire strategy. That is a complete refit for contractors and a full specification for suppliers.

Extra care schemes bring housing scale

Extra care and assisted living schemes combine self-contained apartments with on-site care and shared facilities. You get residential volumes of kitchens, bathrooms, doors and windows, plus communal lounges, restaurants and wellbeing suites to fit out.

Smaller applications open the door to bigger operators

Conservatories, garden rooms, car park changes, plant rooms, variations of conditions and listed building consents for historic homes all count. A small first contract puts you in front of an operator who runs several homes and plans its next build.

Main contractors read the application, call the agent and ask for a place on the tender list before the council decides. Offer early contractor involvement, a realistic programme and value engineering on the drawings, and you turn a planning reference into a negotiated contract rather than a price in a crowded tender.

Specialist contractors lock in their package

Fire protection and sprinkler installers, lift companies, nurse call and access control specialists, and mechanical and electrical firms all have a package inside every care home. Approach the architect and services engineer while the specification is open. Get your system on the drawings and the main contractor prices your product, not a rival's.

Manufacturers and suppliers get specified

Profiling beds, assisted bathing, sanitaryware, flooring, furniture, commercial kitchens and laundry equipment go into every home. Manufacturers and suppliers use the application to find the operator and the designer, book a showroom visit and become the named product in the fit-out schedule.

Architects and consultants join before the decision

Architects and planning consultants spot operators testing a site and offer the design team the scheme needs. Ecologists, drainage engineers, acoustic and transport consultants, fire engineers, quantity surveyors and interior designers win commissions from the conditions attached to every approval. Each condition is a report someone gets paid to write. Make it you.

Leads emails you new care home applications that match your keywords, the day councils publish them, in one email a day. Choose the whole country or up to 5 areas, each a radius of up to 75 miles from a postcode or town, or a whole council. You see the schemes where you work and nothing you do not want.

Every lead arrives ready to act on

• The planning reference, site address and council
• The description of the work and the application type
• Key dates and the decision status
• A link to the council's own record, with drawings and documents
• The applicant, agent firm and business contact wherever the council publishes them

Track every job from first call to contract

The lead pipeline records who you contacted, who you quoted and what you won. Your team sees every live opportunity in one place and no scheme slips through.

Research every past scheme as well

Leads includes everything in Research: search, advanced filters and CSV export. Pull the operators, agents and councils behind past schemes and build a target list for your sales team.

One price for the full service

Leads costs £49 + VAT a month. One won contract pays for years of it.

Free alerts for anyone watching their own area

Anyone can get free email alerts for planning applications near an address, postcode, town or council. Neighbours, residents' groups and families keep watch on their own street at no cost.