See solar panel planning applications before your rivals do

A solar application is any planning application where panels, arrays or the equipment that serves them form part of the work. You receive every kind, so you pick the jobs that suit your crews, your products and your expertise.

Rooftop installs on sensitive buildings bring premium work

Houses in conservation areas, listed buildings and blocks of flats need consent for panels that elsewhere go up without it. Rooftop solar planning on these buildings means careful fixing, matched panels, flush layouts and a client who values quality over the cheapest price. These are the domestic jobs worth winning.

Commercial roofs keep a crew busy for weeks

Warehouses, factories, schools, farm buildings and offices apply for large roof arrays, solar canopies over car parks and carports. Each one brings structural checks, roof upgrades, electrical works and battery storage, all in one contract.

Ground mounted schemes put whole supply chains to work

Ground mounted solar planning covers everything from a single array on an estate to a full solar farm with substations and storage. Every solar farm planning application UK councils publish starts a programme of groundworks, piling, fencing, cabling, landscaping and grid connection.

Follow-on applications tell you the build is close

Discharge of conditions, variations, listed building consent and lawful development certificates follow the main PV planning decision. Each one shows a client moving from paper to site and buying now. Catch these and you land the work at the exact point the money is released.

Solar work feeds a long supply chain, and every link in it wins by arriving early. Here is how each trade turns a fresh application into signed work.

Installers quote before the shortlist closes

Solar installers and electrical contractors read the description, size the system from the drawings and call the homeowner or agent with a costed design. The client who hears from you first measures every later quote against yours.

Builders and roofers turn consent into a wider job

Roofers re-cover and strengthen roofs before panels go on. Builders take the structural work, carports and outbuildings that carry arrays. Scaffolders price access the week an application lands and secure the booking before anyone else calls.

Specialist contractors land the ground mounted packages

Groundworks, piling, fencing, security, cabling and landscaping firms contact the developer or its principal contractor with a package price while the tender list is still being drawn up. Being on that list from day one is the whole game.

Manufacturers and suppliers get specified

Panel, inverter, mounting and battery suppliers reach the designer before the specification is fixed. Get your product named in the drawings and the order follows.

Architects and consultants win the next stage

Architects, landscape architects, ecologists, heritage specialists and glare consultants follow applications to win condition discharge work, appeals and resubmissions. A refusal is a brief for a stronger scheme, and solar panel consent on a second attempt needs exactly the expertise you sell.

Leads emails you every new solar application that matches your keywords, the day councils publish it. You get one email a day, so your morning starts with fresh opportunities and nothing to sift through.

Every lead arrives ready to act on

Each lead carries everything you need to qualify the job and make the call:

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

You choose exactly where you work

Take the whole country, 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. An installer serving one county and a manufacturer selling nationwide each get the patch that fits their business, with no wasted leads from places they never travel to.

One flat price for every solar lead in your patch

Leads costs £49 + VAT a month. One won job covers it, and every job after that is pure gain.

Watching your own street costs nothing

Anyone can get free email alerts for planning applications near an address, postcode, town or council. Homeowners, landowners and neighbours see what is planned next door. Businesses that want to win the work use Leads.