PlanWatch Demand Radar · for flooring companies

Flooring leads, straight off the planning register.

The last trade in the build, chosen months before anyone walks into a flooring showroom. Flooring is the end of the programme and often the end of the budget, which means it is decided in a rush by a household that has been thinking about it for months. Every extension, loft, garage conversion, new kitchen and new dwelling ends with a floor, usually a continuous one through the whole open-plan space. The register dates all of them.

15,785 matching applications hit the UK register in the last 30 days, from the 376 council registers we read daily — filtered down to just the councils or postcode areas you cover.

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.

Last 90 days

Where the work is

Applications matching our rules for flooring companies in our busiest councils, filed in the 90 days to 30 Oct 2026. Open a council for its numbers.

  1. Buckinghamshire692
  2. Enfield586
  3. Cornwall578
  4. Leeds551
  5. Barnet524
  6. Redbridge437
  7. Bradford396
  8. Bromley395
Why the register

Why the register beats every other lead source

  1. Showroom footfall arrives at the very end, when two competitors have already measured up.

  2. "About to finish an extension" is not something any ad platform can target.

  3. The biggest orders come from open-plan spaces that only exist because of a planning consent.

An open-plan extension floor is a serious supply-and-fit order, and whole-house new-build packages more again.

The matching table

Exactly what we match for flooring companies

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.

TriggerExample from the registerDemand windowConfidenceWhy it matters to you
Loft conversion / dormer Loft conversion with rear dormer and 3 no. rooflights 4 – 7 months high loft floors are laid last, before handover
Kitchen extension / open-plan kitchen Single storey rear extension to form open plan kitchen diner 4 – 8 months high the floor goes down at the end, usually through the whole open-plan space
Two-storey / first-floor extension Two storey side extension and single storey rear extension 5 – 9 months high floors are the last thing in before the family moves back in
Single-storey extension Householder Planning Application - Single storey rear and side extension 4 – 8 months high the floor finish is chosen and laid at the end of the build
Garage conversion Garage conversion to habitable accommodation 2 – 5 months high a new insulated floor build-up and finish is part of every garage conversion
New dwelling(s) / self-build Planning Application for the erection of a two storey dwelling with garage 7 – 12 months medium whole-house floor finishes at the end of a longer programme
Open-plan / knock-through kitchen (no extension named) Internal alterations to form open plan kitchen and living space 3 – 6 months high open-plan layouts are finished with one continuous floor
Extension (storeys unspecified) Proposed rear extension and internal alterations 4 – 8 months medium every extension gets a floor finish, though the area is unknown here
Renovation / alterations (catch-all) Refurbishment and alterations to existing dwelling 2 – 7 months medium renovations end with new floor finishes

The latest window in the taxonomy: roughly 4–8 months after consent on extensions, 4–7 on lofts, and 7–12 months on new dwellings. Demand windows are measured from the expected decision date. Refused and withdrawn applications are dropped automatically. How the demand windows are built →

How it works

  1. 1. Pick your patch

    The councils or postcode prefixes you cover — a town, a county, or several.

  2. 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. 3. You get a mailing list

    A deduped, mailing-house-ready CSV of "Owner/Occupier" addresses — one household, one letter, prior recipients suppressed automatically.

Off the register

Recent applications for flooring companies, address hidden.

As filed with the council, newest first. Subscribers get the full site address, the planning reference and the reason it matched, for every one.

FiledCouncilThe work, as filedWhy it matched
30 Oct 2026 Buckinghamshire RG9 Householder application for single storey side extension and two storey rear extension with alterations Two-storey / first-floor extensionwork due 5 to 9 months from the decision
30 Oct 2026 Barnet N3 Conversion of the existing dwelling into 3no. self-contained flats including single storey side and rear extensions, first floor side extension following demolition of… Loft conversion / dormerwork due 4 to 7 months from the decision
30 Oct 2026 Redbridge E11 Loft conversion with a rear dormer. Two front roof light. New window to gable end. (Summary). Loft conversion / dormerwork due 4 to 7 months from the decision
30 Oct 2026 Bradford BD7 Front and rear dormer windows Loft conversion / dormerwork due 4 to 7 months from the decision
30 Oct 2026 Shropshire DY14 Demolition of a single storey timber framed building and construction of a new two storey extension Two-storey / first-floor extensionwork due 5 to 9 months from the decision
30 Oct 2026 South Gloucestershire BS16 Erection of single storey rear extension. Single-storey extensionwork due 4 to 8 months from the decision

Descriptions are the applicant’s own words from the public register. We leave out any row that names a person or carries a house number.

The rules (non-negotiable)

Postal outreach only. Mail only — no email, no SMS, no cold calls. Each letter should cite the planning reference and carry an opt-out address. The data is from the public planning register; we store no applicant names and address letters to "The Owner/Occupier".

Price

Start your subscription

Exclusive cover available: one flooring supply and fitting subscriber per patch — first come, first served. If your area is already taken, we'll tell you before you pay anything.

£149/month · flooring companies · your patch

Questions before you sign up? Email business@planwatch.co.uk.

Questions

Straight answers

Why mail so far ahead of the fitting date?

Because the choice is made long before the fitting date, and often before the shell is finished. Every row carries the month range we expect the decision to fall in, so you can time the letter — or send a brochure early and be the firm they already have a sample from.

Demand Radar or the Business plan — which one do I need?

Same price, different product. Demand Radar posts you an addressed mailing list every month for one trade in your patch, with exclusive cover: it is for firms that write to homes. The Business plan is alerts, keyword rules, a dashboard and an API across any councils you name, with no addresses: it is for firms that want to know within hours of something reaching the register and contact people their own way. If you want letters through doors, Radar. If you want a feed, Business.

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 many other PlanWatch letters will the same household get?

One planning application can be work for several trades, so we limit how many of our subscribers can post the same household in the same month. A shared-cover subscriber may see a few addresses held back until the next month, and the dashboard and batch email say how many. Exclusive cover is never held back by that limit: an exclusive subscriber always gets every address in their patch.

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.

By council

Flooring leads by council, and every other trade.

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PlanWatch Demand Radar · leads sourced from the public UK planning register · postal outreach only. All trades · The guide