Planning Leads for Bricklayers: Find Extension and New Build Work Early
Every extension needs brickwork. Every new build needs brickwork, usually a lot of it. Boundary walls, garden walls, porches — all of it starts life as a planning application, published on a council website, months before anyone picks up a phone to book a bricklayer.
The problem isn’t that the information is hard to find — it’s public. The problem is that checking council portals across several areas, every week, and reading through the documents to work out who applied, takes time most bricklayers don’t have spare between jobs.
Planr does the checking for you.
How Planr finds planning leads for bricklayers
Every week, Planr scrapes planning portals across Herts, Essex, and London (expanding), pulling in new applications and extracting the applicant’s name and address from the documents — including redacted PDFs that are genuinely painful to search manually.
An AI model scores each application for relevance to brickwork, surfacing extensions, new builds and wall applications near the top of your list.
What gets scored highly for bricklayers
- Rear and side extensions — brick-built extensions are the majority of residential planning applications
- New build houses — full brickwork from foundation up, often multiple units
- Boundary and garden walls — smaller jobs, but frequent and quick to price
- Porches — small brickwork jobs, often paired with a bigger extension application
- Structural alterations — chimney rebuilds, opening up walls, brick repair work tied to larger projects
What you get
A scored weekly list of brickwork-relevant applications, and a personalized letter ready to send for each one. Planr reads your website before writing, so the letter references what you actually do — extensions, new builds, garden walls, whatever’s on your site — and the specific project the homeowner has applied for.
Download it, print it, post it.
How much time this saves
Checking multiple council portals and reading through applications to confirm the brickwork scope takes roughly 2 hours a week done properly. Most bricklayers don’t have that time spare between quoting and being on site, which is exactly why leads like this get missed.
With Planr, it’s about 10 minutes a week: scroll the scored list, take what’s worth sending. Roughly 7 hours back a month.
Pricing and free trial
- Starter — £29/month. 1 council.
- Growth — £59/month. 3 councils.
- Pro — £79/month. 15 councils.
7-day free trial, no card required, 3 letters included to test on real local applications.
FAQ
Will I be quoting directly to homeowners, or through the main contractor? The letters go straight to the applicant, usually the homeowner. Some will already have a main contractor lined up, but plenty of homeowners are still shopping around for trades at the point planning is approved.
Does this cover new build sites with multiple houses? Yes — small infill and plot developments are scored highly, since they typically mean a larger volume of brickwork than a single extension.
How early do I see the application compared to when the brickwork actually starts? Often months. Planning approval usually comes well before groundworks even begin, giving you a real window to get in early.
Can I use this for garden and boundary wall work specifically? Yes, these are included in the scoring, though as smaller, quicker jobs alongside the bigger extension and new build leads.
What if I only want leads in one council area to start? The Starter plan covers 1 council for £29/month — you can upgrade to more councils later if it’s working for you.
Get your quote in before the scaffolding’s up. Start your 7-day free trial — no card required.