Quote first on householder planning applications

A householder application covers work to a single house and the land within its boundary. Planning permission for home extension projects is the heart of it, but the category reaches every part of the property. Here is what reaches you and what each one means for your business.

• Rear and side extensions: foundations, brickwork, roofing, steel, glazing and a new kitchen or living space. These are the biggest builds in the category and the biggest orders for builders and suppliers.
• Two-storey and wraparound extensions: structural design, scaffolding, roofing and full fit-out. These run for months and keep a whole team busy.
• Loft conversions and dormers: work for specialist loft firms, roofers, stair makers and rooflight and window suppliers.
• Garages, garden rooms and outbuildings: groundworks, timber frame, modular buildings and electrics.
• Annexes for relatives: a small home in its own right, with kitchens, bathrooms and accessible fittings.
• Porches, windows, doors and cladding: direct leads for glazing firms, joiners and facade specialists.
• Driveways, dropped kerbs, walls and fences: work for groundworkers, paving firms and landscapers.
• Solar panels, heat pumps and other renewables that need consent: installers who win by being on site early.

The description tells you the size of the job

Each application carries the council's description of the work, so you read the scope before you pick up the phone. 'Single storey rear extension with bifold doors' tells a glazing firm exactly what to quote. You know what is being built and where before the homeowner has spoken to another trade.

Every householder application UK councils publish starts a race between the firms that want the job. The winners are the ones who see it first and act on it.

Builders and extension specialists fill their order book months ahead

A main contractor reads the description, checks the address against their patch and contacts the homeowner or their architect while the drawings are fresh. They price the job at the plans stage and win it before a tender exists.

Specialist contractors land the package before it goes elsewhere

Loft converters, glaziers, roofers, steel fabricators and groundworkers approach the homeowner directly or offer their package to the builder already on the job. Either way, they are in the conversation before the work is subcontracted to a rival.

Manufacturers and suppliers get specified early

Window, door, rooflight, kitchen, timber frame and garden room firms win when their product is named in the drawings or chosen before the build. An approved extension is a confirmed order in waiting. Merchants use the same applications to plan stock and call local builders with the right offer at the right moment.

Architects and consultants win the next stage

Structural engineers, party wall surveyors, building control consultants and interior designers all follow planning drawings. When the applicant has no agent, architects and planning consultants win the redesign, the resubmission or the appeal. Every refusal is a client who now needs expert help, and you are the expert who called.

Leads sends you the householder applications that match your work, the day councils publish them, in one email a day. You choose the keywords that describe your jobs, and Leads matches them against every new application so your inbox holds the projects you want to price.

Cover the patch you work, or the whole country

Take leads nationwide, or set up to 5 areas. Each area is a radius of up to 75 miles from a postcode or town, or a whole council. A builder covers the towns their vans reach. A manufacturer delivering nationwide sees every match across the UK.

Every lead arrives ready to act on

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

You go from email to phone call in minutes, with the facts you need to open the conversation well and sound like the firm that already knows the job.

One price for the whole service

Leads costs £49 + VAT a month. That covers your daily emails, your keywords, your areas and every detail above, for every kind of planning application you choose to follow.

Watching your own street is free

Anyone can get free email alerts for planning applications near an address, postcode, town or council. Homeowners, neighbours and residents' groups see what is planned nearby without paying a penny.