Find building projects while they’re still being planned
Extensions, new homes, conversions and major renovations are being planned in your area. Planr helps you find the ones relevant to your business and approach them earlier.
Find the projects that could turn into your next job
Every week, homeowners and developers submit planning applications for extensions, new homes, conversions and major alterations.
For a builder, those applications can be an early indication of work that may be coming up.
The problem is finding the useful ones.
Searching individual council portals, opening applications and working out which projects are relevant takes time. Planr does that searching and filtering for you.
What Planr looks for for builders
Relevant projects can include:
- Rear and side extensions
- Two-storey extensions
- New build homes
- Loft conversions
- Garage conversions
- Annexes
- Major alterations
- Residential conversions
- Larger renovation projects
Planr analyses planning applications and scores how relevant they appear to your trade, helping you focus on the projects worth looking at.
Planning records do not reliably tell you whether somebody has already appointed a builder, and Planr does not pretend they do.
What they can tell you is that a real project is being planned at a real property.
This started with a process that already won building work
Before I built Planr, part of my job was manually searching council planning portals for potential building work.
I would find relevant applications, go through the details, pull together the useful information and write letters to the people behind the projects.
My boss would follow up, sometimes delivering the letters himself while he was already nearby for another job or quote.
That process won work.
What didn’t make sense was the amount of time it took to search, filter and prepare every letter manually.
That’s the process Planr was built to automate.
Find the project. Decide if it’s right. Make contact.
When Planr finds a project that looks relevant, you can review the details and decide whether you want to approach it.
If you do, Planr can create a personalised outreach letter using information from the planning application.
On Growth and Pro, Planr can also learn about your business from your website, helping the outreach better reflect the work and services you actually offer.
You stay in control of what gets sent.