Planning Leads for Carpenters & Joiners: Find Bespoke Work Before It Goes to a Main Contractor
Loft conversions need new staircases. Extensions need structural timberwork, flooring, skirting, doors. Listed buildings need careful, specialist joinery matched to the existing woodwork. All of that is decided the moment planning permission is granted — published on a council website, sitting there in public, months before a carpenter usually hears about it.
Most carpenters and joiners never see it that early, because checking council portals across a patch every week for the right kind of job takes time nobody has spare on top of actually being in the workshop or on site.
Planr checks for you, every week.
How Planr finds planning leads for carpenters & joiners
Planr scrapes council planning portals across Herts, Essex, and London (expanding) weekly, pulling in every new application and extracting the applicant’s name and address — including from redacted PDF documents that would take real effort to search manually.
An AI model then scores each application for relevance to carpentry and joinery work, so extensions, loft conversions and listed building applications rise near the top.
What gets scored highly for carpenters & joiners
- Loft conversions — nearly always need a new staircase, a genuinely specialist joinery job
- Extensions — structural timberwork, flooring, doors, skirting and architraves
- Listed building consent applications — bespoke joinery matched to existing period features
- New build houses — staircases, doors, and fitted joinery throughout
- Internal alteration applications — built-in storage, shelving, and structural timber changes
What you get
A scored weekly list of joinery-relevant applications, and a ready-to-send letter for each one. Planr reads your website before writing, so the letter reflects your actual work — staircases, bespoke fitted furniture, period joinery, whatever’s on your site — matched to the specific project.
Download, print, post.
How much time this saves
Checking multiple council portals and reading applications to spot genuinely joinery-relevant work takes about 2 hours a week done properly. Most carpenters and joiners don’t have that time free between jobs, which is why so much of this work defaults to whoever the main contractor already knows.
Planr cuts that to about 10 minutes a week: scroll your scored list, download 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 so you can see it work on real applications near you.
FAQ
Does this work for bespoke and high-end joinery specifically, or just general carpentry? Both — the scoring picks up general structural carpentry from extensions and new builds, as well as listed building applications where bespoke, specialist joinery is more likely to be needed.
Will the letter mention specific joinery work like staircases or fitted furniture? Only what’s on your website. Planr writes based on your actual listed services, so the more detail your site has, the more specific the letter can be.
How early can I contact the homeowner compared to when carpentry work actually starts? Usually months. Planning approval comes well before most trades are appointed, so it’s a genuine early window rather than competing with three other quotes already in hand.
Does Planr cover listed building and conservation area work? Yes — listed building consent applications are specifically scored, since they’re a strong signal for specialist joinery work.
What if I only work in one or two council areas? The Starter plan (1 council) or Growth plan (3 councils) will likely suit you better than Pro, which is built for wider coverage.
Get the staircase job before the loft’s even boarded out. Start your 7-day free trial — no card required.