For groundworks contractors
Groundworks is the first package on site, so the planning application is often the earliest public sign that your work is coming. PlanningPing monitors UK planning applications for the signals that point to groundworks scope and ranks the schemes worth a call.
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By the time a scheme reaches a main contractor’s tender list, the groundworks package is often already being priced. The earlier signal is the planning application — the site, the number of units, the drainage strategy, the new access road — and it is public.
The trouble is volume. A single council can publish hundreds of applications a month, and most are extensions, tree works and change-of-use applications with no groundworks in them at all. Reading registers by hand means most of the effort goes on applications you were never going to price.
PlanningPing does that first pass for you, so the time you spend is on the schemes that look like groundworks.
These are the signals PlanningPing looks for in application descriptions. None of them guarantees a package — they tell you which applications deserve a closer look.
Demolition, site levelling, enabling works, hardstanding and service diversions — the work that has to happen before anything is built.
Cut and fill, excavation, contaminated land remediation and ground stabilisation, often described in the application or its supporting documents.
Piling, foundations, basements and substructure works on new-build and redevelopment schemes.
Surface and foul water drainage, SuDS, attenuation tanks, soakaways and pumping stations — frequently let with or alongside groundworks.
New estate roads, access roads, junctions and footways, including Section 38 and Section 278 highway works.
Residential unit counts and site areas, so a 60-home scheme stands out from a single dwelling.
Pick the towns or postcodes you work in and how far you travel. PlanningPing watches the planning authorities that cover them.
Choose your services and the kind of schemes you want — housing, commercial, industrial — and the size range that suits your firm.
Each application is scored for groundworks and civils relevance, and against your own profile. You see why it was flagged — drainage scope, an access road, a unit count — not just a number.
Save opportunities to a pipeline, check the planning agent where the council publishes one, and get alerted when a tracked application is decided.
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.
What to sell: Groundworks package
APPLICATION TO DISCHARGE CONDITION 4 (CONTAMINATED LAND) PERTAINING TO PLANNING PERMISSION 23/00215/FUL.
Matched trade signals
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
What to sell: Groundworks package
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 7 (Piling) of planning permission 14/03109/OUTMAJ
Matched trade signals
What to sell: Groundworks package
VARIATION OF CONDITION 3 (CONTAMINATED LAND) AND 4 (BIODIVERSITY ENHANCEMENTS) ON APPLICATION 15961/23 TO AMEND WORDING OF CONDITIONS
Matched trade signals
Recent applications in some of the busiest planning authorities we cover.
Tell PlanningPing what your company does and where you work, and see which planning applications look like groundworks for you.