Tomorrow’s projects start here.
New planning applications in your area, straight to your phone.
FurrowLead checks council planning portals every weeknight and puts the new applications in your counties into one lead feed. Filter by trade and distance, open the job, and get the agent’s contact details. Watch a job and we’ll tell you when the council decides.
7 days free on up to 3 counties. No card needed. Cancel any time.
How it works
Three steps. No trawling council websites at ten at night.
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Pick your counties and trades
Choose the counties you work in and the kind of jobs you want: extensions, new homes, groundworks, commercial, whatever suits your firm. Set how far you’ll travel from your yard.
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We check the councils overnight
Every weeknight FurrowLead scans the planning portals for every council in your counties. New applications land in your feed by the morning, with a digest email of the best ones.
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Get in early and track it
Open a lead to see the full application and the agent or architect’s business contact details. Watch the job and we’ll tell you when it’s approved, refused, withdrawn or appealed.
What you get
Everything you need to go from a planning number to a priced job.
Fresh leads every weekday
New planning applications from every council in your counties, ready each weekday morning.
Filter by trade
14 trade sectors, from extensions and lofts to groundworks, commercial, agricultural and solar. Tree works and signage are there if you want them.
Distance from your yard
Only see jobs within the distance you’re prepared to travel. Switch to the map view to see where they sit.
Who to call
Full application details, plus the agent or architect’s business contact details when you open a lead.
Decision alerts
Watch a job and get an email and phone notification when it’s approved, refused, withdrawn or appealed.
Morning digest
A short email each morning with your best new leads, so you can look over them with your first brew.
Your own pipeline
Move jobs through new, contacted, quoted, won and lost. Add notes and quote values as you go.
Local agents and architects
A directory of the agents and architects working in your counties, with their application history. Know who’s busy.
Smart Areas
Learns from what you save, print and mark as quoted, and puts similar jobs first. Preview counties you’re growing into before you add them.
Also: print a lead to take on site, and export to a spreadsheet (CSV) on paid plans.
Who it’s for
Any firm that wins work off the back of planning permission.
Small firm or bigger outfit, one van or ten. Pick the trades and counties that match the work you actually want.
Common questions
Where do the leads come from?
Public council planning registers. FurrowLead checks the councils’ own planning portals every weeknight and collects the new applications for you.
Do I get the homeowner’s name and number?
No. Private householders’ names aren’t shown. You get the agent or architect’s business contact details, and contact goes through them.
Here’s why. Homeowners are private individuals. The council publishes their names so neighbours can comment on the plans, not so firms can market to them. Ringing, texting or emailing a homeowner off a planning register risks breaking UK data protection and marketing rules (UK GDPR and PECR), and it’s you who’d be in the firing line.
The agent or architect is a business, already working for the homeowner, and is usually the one who puts the job out to price. So they’re the right person to call anyway.
Is my area covered?
Yes. FurrowLead scans every council planning authority across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, 376 councils scanned nightly. Pick a county and you get every council in it.
Now and again a council’s planning website goes down or changes. When that happens the app flags that council, so you know why it’s gone quiet, and the next scan catches up on anything it missed.
Try it free for 7 days and see the leads coming through in your counties before you pay a penny.
Get in early on tomorrow’s projects.
Seven days free. No card needed. See the leads in your area before you pay a penny.