How to get Free construction leads

It is good news to know that all the information for any planning application can be found on line. From this vast pool of information astute professionals and organisations can search and find the Planning applications & decisions they want completely free of charge. Whether is is just the information you need for your research, or that you are preparing for a Marketing and sales campaign, all the United Kingdom's planning projects are freely available in the links on the Local Planning Authority links below. These links will take you to the planning search on each of the Local Planning Authority websites.

 

The Local Planning authorities all provide searchable records for planning applications, decisions & appeals.

All of the records are public information & are free for anyone to access

 

As a breakdown; in England there are 32 London boroughs, 36 metropolitan borough councils, 201 non-metropolitan district councils, 27 non-metropolitan county councils, 55 unitary authority councils,10 national parks authorities, the City of London Corporation, the Council of the Isles of Scilly, and 2 mayoral development corporations.

 

Local planning authorites in Scotland are 32 unitary authorities, and 2 national Park Authorities,

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In Wales the Local Planning Authorities are 22 unitary authorities and the 3 National Park Authorities.

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Next to each Authority are listed significant Cities & Towns that are within each Planning Authoritys's jurisdiction.

In this way the list is a quick reference point to see which places you are interested in obtaining planning data from, and the name of the council that you will find the information you need for that particular place in England, Scotland or Wales.Then, click on those names to link straight to the Councils' Planning website.

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It is great to get something for free that can really help your business. However, when faced with needing Planning application information from across many councils, and facing thousands of records to sort through, the time & edffort required to find the data that you need is daunting. This is why it can be far more efficient to use 2BuildUK's planning application lists, conveniantly giving you the councils you need & the projects that you are interested in on one easy to use spreadsheet, & at a cost far lower than any 'per hour' rate you would be paying an employee to do this work manually!