Planning leads for shopfitters: every new café, shop and fit-out near you
Changes of use, shopfronts and commercial fit-outs near you, in your inbox the day councils publish them.
A new café, gym or restaurant applies for planning weeks before it appoints a fit-out contractor. That application has the address, the operator and the architect on it, and it is your way in.
Planning Signal Leads sends you those jobs the day the council publishes them. You get in touch with the operator while the design is still moving and win the fit-out before the tender list is written. Every new opening on every high street in your patch, every day, without driving round looking for empty units with boards up.
The jobs you will see
Changes of use
Shops becoming cafés, restaurants, gyms, salons and clinics, each needing a full fit-out.
New and altered shopfronts
Shopfront replacements and alterations on high streets and in conservation areas.
Commercial fit-outs
Offices, showrooms and units being refitted for new tenants.
Food and drink premises
Extraction, kitchens and seating layouts for new restaurants and takeaways.
Multi-site operators
Chains opening across a region. Win one site and you are in line for the rest.
Offices and showrooms
Offices and showrooms refitted for new tenants, with partitions, ceilings and lighting to install.
A lead, as it lands in your inbox
Example lead
Change of use from retail to a café with a new shopfront and rear extraction flue
High street unit, 5 miles from you
New application, received 2 days ago
Why a planning lead beats a bought lead
A bought lead is a name on a form, sold to three or four firms at once. A planning lead is an owner who has paid for drawings, filed an application and put their address on the public record. They have committed to the project in writing, and they still need the people to build it.
You are not fighting a crowd for the same click. You reach the owner directly, with the full proposal in front of you, and you open the conversation knowing exactly what they want built.
The best fit-out contracts are agreed before the tender goes public. Reaching the operator at the planning stage puts you in that conversation.
Operators who open one site open more. Do the first fit-out well and you are the contractor they call for the next one.
Picture the week: two cafés and a gym on high streets near you, a new restaurant with extraction and a showroom refit on a retail park. You call each operator before the tender list is drawn up.
Three steps to your first lead
Tell us the work you want
Pick your trade and add the words that describe your best jobs, from loft conversion to listed building. The more precise your words, the sharper your leads.
Set your patch
Draw a radius of 5 to 75 miles around your postcode, or cover whole councils. Add more than one area if you work in more than one place.
Win the job
Matching jobs land in your inbox in one email a day. Open the lead, make the call and win the work before anyone else has heard of it.
Everything you need to make the call
- The site address and what the owner wants to build
- The applicant, plus the agent firm and its business contact
- A direct link to the full application and drawings
Only real work reaches you. New applications and fresh approvals, never the paperwork that follows a permission and never last spring's backlog.
Work every lead to a win
Every lead lands in your pipeline. Mark it contacted when you call, quoted when you price it and won when the job is yours. You always know which owners to chase, which quotes are waiting and how much work your leads have brought in.
Get found as well as finding work
Leads comes with your free directory profile. Add your projects, photos and service area, and owners searching for your trade near them see you and the work you have done.
Applications that bring you work
Your questions, answered
Which commercial jobs will I see?
Changes of use, shopfront alterations, commercial fit-outs and new food and drink premises near you.
Do I see signage applications?
No. Signs alone are not a fit-out, so your leads are the jobs with real building work in them.
Can I follow one type of business nationwide?
Yes. Your keywords work nationwide, so you can follow every new gym, café or clinic in the country.
Who do I contact?
Every lead shows the applicant and the agent firm with its business contact, the people who appoint the fit-out team.