The households whose planning application just failed — and the ones who have not had anything properly drawn yet.
Every other list on this site is built from applications that are going ahead. Yours is built from the ones that are not. A refusal, a withdrawal, an outline consent that settles nothing, a permitted-development certificate someone filed themselves: each is a household that still wants the project and has just discovered it needs more than they had.
5,781 matching applications hit the UK register in the last 30 days — filtered down to just the councils or postcode areas you cover.
Why the register beats every other lead source
A householder scheme taken from survey through planning and building regulations is usually a four-figure fee, and a one-off resubmission or appeal statement is a smaller job you can quote the same week. The register hands you the households at the exact moment the need appears.
Exactly what we match for architects & planning consultants
This is the real matching table, not marketing. Every lead row you receive shows its trigger, demand window and confidence — and the reasoning is printed on the row so you can sanity-check every address before it's mailed.
| Trigger | Example from the register | Demand window | Confidence | Why it matters to you |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refused / dismissed at appeal — domestic | Refused: erection of a two storey side extension to a dwellinghouse | now – 6 months | high | the application was refused — the household still wants to build and needs a redesign, an appeal or a fresh application. Timing runs from the refusal, which this register does not date, so the window is deliberately wide (validation + 2 to 8 months) |
| Withdrawn — domestic | Withdrawn: single storey rear extension and loft conversion to a semi-detached house | now – 6 months | high | the application was withdrawn, which householders usually do on officer advice rather than because they changed their mind — the project is alive and the drawings are not. Same wide window as a refusal: the register carries no withdrawal date |
| Outline / pre-application — nothing is drawn yet | Outline application for the erection of 2 no. dwellings with all matters reserved | now – 3 months | medium | outline consent and pre-application advice settle the principle and nothing else — the detailed drawings, the reserved matters and the full application are all still to be commissioned |
| Permitted-development check — lawfulness certificate or prior approval | Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) for a loft conversion with rear dormer to a dwellinghouse | now – 3 months | medium | the household is testing whether they can build without planning permission. Some can; the ones who cannot, or who are refused prior approval, need a drawn application next — and they have already shown they are trying to do this without a professional |
| Large domestic project — two-storey, new or replacement dwelling, annexe | Erection of a two storey side extension and single storey rear extension to a detached house | now – 3 months | medium | a project at this scale is not finished when consent lands — building-regulations drawings, discharge of conditions and, often enough, an amended application are all still to come |
Refused and withdrawn applications are the immediate work. Outline consents, pre-application cases and permitted-development certificates run 0–3 months from the decision, because the detailed drawings are the next thing the household has to buy. Demand windows are measured from the expected decision date. Refused and withdrawn applications are dropped automatically. How the demand windows are built →
See what’s in your patch
Enter a full postcode to search a 5 km business radius, or name the councils or postcode districts you cover. We will run the last 90 days of the public register through the same trigger model your batches use and tell you how much matching demand is sitting in it right now.
Counts only. High and medium confidence matches, deduplicated to one line per application. The site addresses, planning references and per-row reasoning are what a subscription buys.
How it works
1. Pick your patch
The councils or postcode prefixes you cover — a town, a county, or several.2. We scan the register
Every month we cross live planning applications from 378 UK councils with the trigger model above and score the demand window.3. You get a mailing list
A deduped, mailing-house-ready CSV of "Owner/Occupier" addresses — one household, one letter, prior recipients suppressed automatically.Sample leads (anonymised)
| Trigger | Area | Property | Expected demand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Refused / dismissed at appeal — domestic | CO15 | A property near CO15 ●●● | now – 6 months |
| Withdrawn — domestic | CO12 | A property near CO12 ●●● | now – 6 months |
| Outline / pre-application — nothing is drawn yet | CO13 | A property near CO13 ●●● | now – 3 months |
| Permitted-development check — lawfulness certificate or prior approval | CO16 | A property near CO16 ●●● | now – 3 months |
Real batches show the full site address, planning reference, score and reasoning. Samples are illustrative.
The rules (non-negotiable)
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Exclusive cover available: one architectural design and planning consultancy subscriber per patch — first come, first served. If your area is already taken, we'll tell you before you pay anything.
Straight answers
Refused applications — is that not somebody else's failed job?
Usually, and that is the point. Most householder refusals are fixable: the scheme was too deep, the drawings were the applicant's own, or nobody argued the policy. The household has already committed to the project and has just learned the hard way what a planning drawing is for. They are the readiest customer in the register.
Will I see every refusal in my area?
No, and it is worth knowing why before you subscribe. Councils publish status text in whatever form they like, and some publish no outcome at all — Leeds shows every case as "Decided" or "Current", Harrow as "Application Under Consideration". Where the outcome is not published we cannot invent it, so in those areas the list leans on the other signals: outline and pre-application cases, lawfulness certificates, prior approvals and large domestic projects. Ask us what your specific councils publish and we will tell you before you pay.
How current is a refusal on my list?
Honestly: dated to the week the application was validated, not the day it was refused. This register does not carry decision dates, so the window is anchored on validation and made deliberately wide — measured across the whole database, refusals land four to nine months after validation. You get the refusal while it still matters, but we will not pretend to know which Tuesday the letter arrived.
How big is the list?
Smaller than every other list on this site, on purpose. A row only appears if the household's project has stalled — refused or withdrawn — or has never been properly drawn: an outline consent, a pre-application case, a permitted-development certificate or a large domestic scheme. An ordinary live application is not on it, because somebody has already drawn that one. We would rather hand you a short list where every address is a reason to write than pad it out so your patch looks busy.
Do large housing schemes appear?
No. Schemes of ten dwellings or more are dropped from this list outright rather than demoted, because a developer at that scale appointed an architect long before the application existed. Commercial premises, advertisements, tree work and condition paperwork are excluded for the same reason: none of them is a household that needs drawings.
Where does the data come from?
Published planning applications from the UK planning register — planning.data.gov.uk plus direct council sources, covering 378 local authorities. That register is public information. What you pay for is the trade-trigger matching, the demand-window timing, the deduplication and the suppression, not the raw fact of the applications.
How far back does the first list go?
There is no fixed cut-off date. We look back across the register and keep only the applications whose buying window for your trade is still upcoming, open or closing. In practice that means most of a first list is the last six months of live projects, plus a tail of larger builds from further back that are only now reaching your stage. Anything finished or already past its window is dropped, and each household appears once and is never sent to you twice — as is anything refused or withdrawn, unless your trade is architects and planning consultants, where a stalled application is the whole point. Whether that first list comes out bigger or smaller than the 90-day figure on the patch checker depends on how long your trade's buying window is, and it goes both ways. A long-window trade — glazing, kitchens, flooring — gets a much bigger first list, because consents from six or twelve months back are only now reaching its stage. A fast-window trade like skip hire or demolition gets a smaller one, because a nought-to-three-month window has already closed on a good share of what the checker counted. Either way later months are smaller than the first: they carry new applications only.
Why postal outreach only? Can I get phone numbers?
No, and that is deliberate. The register is published for planning transparency, not to build a calling list. We store no applicant names, so there is nothing to phone: letters are addressed to "The Owner/Occupier" at the property. Mail only — no email, no SMS, no cold calls — and every letter should cite the planning reference and carry an opt-out address. Firms that want a dialler list are not a fit for this product.
How does exclusivity work?
One subscriber per trade, per patch. The check runs before you pay: if another firm in your trade already holds those councils or postcode areas, we tell you at signup and take no money. Exclusivity is scoped to your trade only — a roofer and a window company can both hold the same town without clashing.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Billing is monthly and you can cancel at any time; cover runs to the end of the month you have paid for, then the patch is released for someone else. There is no minimum term and no contract to exit.
What happens when I sign up today?
You go straight to secure checkout, and your first list is generated within 24 hours of activation rather than a month later. That first list is not a snapshot of the last few weeks: it carries every live application in your patch whose buying window for your trade is still upcoming, open or closing, which in practice is most of the last six months plus some larger builds from further back that are only now reaching your stage. Finished jobs are dropped and each address appears once. Refused and withdrawn applications are dropped too for every building trade — with one deliberate exception: on the architects and planning consultants list they ARE the list, because a refusal is the moment a household discovers it needs drawings. After that a fresh list arrives every month covering new applications only, so it will be smaller than the first. If your patch turns out to be thinner than you expected in that first month, tell us and we will sort it out.
Other trades we cover
Window & door companies · Conservatory, orangery & garden room installers · Bricklayers & building contractors · Roofing contractors · Loft conversion companies · Kitchen companies · Landscapers & driveway contractors · Solar installers · Heat pump & heating engineers · Scaffolding firms · Demolition & strip-out contractors · Tree surgeons & arborists · Skip hire & waste removal · Electricians · Plumbers & bathroom fitters · Fencing & gates contractors · Plasterers & decorators · Flooring companies · Estate & letting agents
How to actually work these leads
A list is not a pipeline. What to send, when to send it, how many times to follow up and the compliance line we hold: how to turn planning applications into jobs →