PlanningPing

For civil engineering firms

Find Civil Engineering Project Opportunities

Most civil engineering work on a development — the highways, the drainage strategy, the flood mitigation, the retaining structures — is described at planning stage. PlanningPing reads UK planning applications for that scope and puts the schemes that carry it in front of your business development team.

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For a civil engineering contractor or consultancy, the most useful moment to hear about a scheme is before the design team is fixed and before the tender. Planning applications are where that information first becomes public: a new junction onto the A-road, an attenuation basin, a culvert, a retaining wall on a sloping site.

But civils scope rarely appears in the headline. It sits in the description, the drainage strategy and the highways conditions, spread across hundreds of authorities that each publish in their own format.

PlanningPing reads those descriptions across 400+ UK planning authorities, recognises civils scope, and ranks what it finds — so your team starts from a shortlist rather than a register.

Civils scope PlanningPing looks for

Each of these is a signal the scorer recognises in application descriptions. Together with scheme size, they decide how an application ranks.

  • Highways and access

    Section 278 and Section 38 works, new junctions and roundabouts, estate roads, carriageway and footway improvements.

  • Drainage and SuDS

    Sustainable drainage systems, attenuation, balancing ponds, sewer connections and pumping stations.

  • Flood and water management

    Flood risk mitigation and alleviation, culverts and works near watercourses.

  • Structures

    Retaining walls, reinforced concrete, basements, underpinning, gabions and sheet piling.

  • Infrastructure and enabling works

    Utilities, service diversions, site levelling and enabling works on larger sites.

  • Scheme type and scale

    Housing, commercial and industrial developments, weighted by unit count and site area so major schemes rise above minor ones.

From planning register to a prioritised pipeline

  1. 1

    Monitor your territory

    Choose the areas your firm covers. PlanningPing checks new applications there every day.

  2. 2

    Describe the work you want

    Set your services, preferred sectors and scheme sizes. Applications are scored against that profile as well as for civils relevance.

  3. 3

    Read the reasoning, not just the score

    Every ranked application shows which civils signals it carries, with the council reference kept visible so you can check the source.

  4. 4

    Follow schemes through

    Track opportunities in a pipeline and get alerted when a tracked application is decided or a discharge of conditions is submitted.

Recent applications with highways and access scope

Real UK planning applications PlanningPing flagged recently, with the signals that flagged them. Public records, shown at least a week after submission. Signed in, these are ranked against what your own business does.

Sales opportunityUndecided

What to sell: Infrastructure package

T1 - Sycamore To reduce height and spread back to previous pruning points (approx. 2.5m) To remove large amount of basal and epicormic growth to a height of 4m. To crown raise lower canopy to a height of 3.5-4m above ground level, over footpaths and driveways and to a height of 5.5m over the carriageway. To remove dead and damaged material from crown. To thin canopy by approx. 20% to increase light and airflow through canopy. To reduce encroachment into neighbouring property 29 Station Rd by approx. 2m. To remove all arisings. Reasons - To keep size manageable and suitable for location. To clear encroaching growth into public highway and footpath. To decrease encroaching growth onto buiding. To increase light and airflow throughout canopy. T2 - Sycamore To reduce entire crown to near previous cuts approx. 2.5m and reshape to balance. To remove basal and epicormic growth. To crown raise to a height of 4 m. To remove dead and damaged material from crown. To thin canopy by approx. 10% to increase light and airflow through canopy. To cut back encroachment to building to leave a 2m clearance where possible. To remove all arisings Reasons - To keep size manageable and suitable for location. To clear encroaching growth into public highway and footpath. To clear access driveway into Speights Court. To increase light and airflow throughout canopy.

Matched trade signals

Highways / access scope
Planning reference
T0126.26
Location
39 Station Road Gidea Park Romford RM2 6BX
Submitted
Submitted 8 days ago
Sales opportunityUndecided

What to sell: Infrastructure package

Pine (T1) – Front boundary of 79 Pinehill Road: - Reduce lowest branch on northern side by approximately 3 metres to alleviate branch end weight and leverage and give good clearance to property. - Reduce lateral branch originating at approximately 10 metres from ground level on northern side by approximately 2 metres to alleviate branch end weight and leverage - Remove broken branch within upper crown on northern side - Carry out reduction work to remaining lateral branches on northern side as required to shape and balance in line with reduction works to lower lateral branches - Reduce over extended lateral branch on southern side over highway by approximately 5 metres to alleviate branch end weight and leverage Remove all deadwood from entire crown area Reason for application: Proposed reduction works are being advised to mitigate potential failure associated with V-shaped unions exhibiting significant included bark. The presence of reactive growth (commonly referred to as 'elephant’s ears') indicates that the tree is actively attempting to compensate for structural stress Pine (T2) – Front boundary of 79 Pinehill Road: - Front garden, front boundary - Remove all deadwood from entire crown area

Matched trade signals

Highways / access scopeStructural / retaining scope
Planning reference
PA/2026/0884
Location
WOODPECKERS, 79 PINEHILL ROAD, CROWTHORNE, RG45 7JP
Submitted
Submitted 10 days ago
Sales opportunity

What to sell: Groundworks package

Details pursuant to condition 3 (Contamination Investigation),4 (Contamination Remediation) and part discharge condition 5 (Contamination Verification) on planning permission MC/22/1498- Hardstanding and enclosure of area between depot and highway for light industrial use including car sales - Retrospective

Matched trade signals

Earthworks / groundworks scopeHighways / access scopeInfrastructure / enabling works
Planning reference
MC/26/1800
Location
The Depot Ratcliffe Highway Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 8QB
Submitted
Submitted 10 days ago
Sales opportunityUndecided

What to sell: Infrastructure package

Change of use of an existing building from temporary use as a mortuary and office uses to permanent use as a mortuary and office uses, together with the installation of a post-mortem suite, digital autopsy unit, covered walkway and bin store, and associated building and infrastructure works without compliance with Condition 1 (Approved Plans) of planning permission ref: SU/26/0363/DCM dated 24 June 2026 to enable updated design and addition of external Air Handling Unit.

Matched trade signals

Highways / access scopeInfrastructure / enabling works
Planning reference
26/0858/DCM
Location
Highway Depot Surrey Heath District Transportation Office 2 London Road Bagshot Surrey GU19 5HN
Submitted
Submitted 10 days ago
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Questions

Is PlanningPing for contractors or consultancies?
Both. Contractors use it to find schemes before they reach tender; engineering consultancies use it to see which developments are coming forward in their region and which planning agents are handling them, where the council publishes that.
Does it cover infrastructure projects that don’t go through local planning?
PlanningPing monitors local planning authority applications, plus public-sector contract notices from Contracts Finder. Nationally significant infrastructure consented through the DCO regime is not currently covered.
How does PlanningPing decide which applications are relevant?
It reads each application description for civils scope — highways, drainage, flood, structures and enabling works — and for scheme size. Householder applications and minor works are scored down. Signed in, applications are also scored against your own services and preferences.
Will this win us contracts?
It won’t win them for you. PlanningPing gives your team earlier visibility and a better-qualified shortlist; the relationships and the bid are still yours.

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