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For extension and loft builders

Every homeowner in your areawho gets planning permission hears from you first.

SpadeReady reads the public planning register every night for all 370 council areas in the UK, writes to each homeowner under your brand within days of their application, and prints and posts the letters for you. One builder per council area: you are the only firm we write to its homeowners for. You approve every batch with one tap.

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From £99 a month, priced on your council's letters · no contract · cancel any time

Extensions and lofts, nationally

  • 6,217

    homeowners applied to extend or convert their home

    across the UK in the four weeks to 28 October

  • 370

    council areas whose planning register we read every night

    England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

  • 219

    homeowners were granted permission this week

    decided across the UK in the last 7 days

Source: the public planning register.

Your area, right now

Type a postcode. See who applied last month.

No signup. The council your postcode falls under, how many homeowners there applied for planning permission last month, and a few of the projects, with addresses removed.

No signup. We look the postcode up, show you the council it falls under, and forget it.

Claim your area

One builder per council area. Which one is yours?

Type your council, or your postcode. We cover every one of the 370 planning authorities PlanIt lists, across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Claiming takes a card and two minutes.

Or browse all 370 council areas

East England (44)

East Midlands (36)

London (33)

North East (13)

North West (35)

Northern Ireland (11)

Scotland (34)

South East (65)

South West (28)

Wales (25)

West Midlands (29)

Yorkshire and Humber (17)

Not an extension or loft builder?

Leave an email and we will tell you the day your trade opens. One message, no newsletter.

We use your email only to tell you when your trade or area opens. See the privacy notice.

How it works

Two letters per homeowner, both under your brand

You give us your brand and your price bands. We do the rest.

  1. Step 1: We sync the planning register every night

    Every householder application in your council area is read from the public planning register via PlanIt and classified. The extension, loft and conversion projects are kept; everything else is dropped.

  2. Step 2: A letter under your brand, within days of the application

    Each homeowner gets a short, personal letter that names their project, carries your name, phone number and website, and quotes only a price band you have approved. SpadeReady appears in the footer only.

  3. Step 3: A second letter when permission is granted

    When the council approves the application, a follow-up letter goes out. That is the moment most homeowners start ringing builders.

  4. Step 4: Weekly one-tap approval

    Every week you get one email with the week's letters. Tap approve and they go. Nothing is ever posted without your approval.

  5. Step 5: SpadeReady prints and posts

    Printing, envelopes, postage and opt-out handling are all included in the monthly price. You just answer the phone.

Pricing

Priced on your council's letters. From £99 a month.

No contract, cancel any time. A card is required to claim an area, because that is what makes it yours.

Standard

£149per month

A letter when they apply, and a second when permission comes through.

  • A letter the week the planning application is published
  • A second letter the week permission is granted
  • Every homeowner in your council area who applies, every month
  • Written from the planning register, personalised to each project
  • Your brand on every letter; your approved price bands only
  • Printing, postage and opt-out handling included

Most of the country: councils whose register gives the builder 50 to 139 letters a four weeks.

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Approvals only

£99per month

One letter, the week permission is granted.

  • One letter, the week permission is granted
  • Every homeowner in your council area who is granted permission, every month
  • Written from the planning register, personalised to each project
  • Your brand on every letter; your approved price bands only
  • Printing, postage and opt-out handling included

The quieter councils, and the approval letter alone: councils whose register gives the builder 30 to 49 letters a four weeks.

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High volume

£249per month

Both letters, in a council that keeps a builder busy.

  • A letter the week the planning application is published
  • A second letter the week permission is granted
  • Every homeowner in your council area who applies, every month
  • Written from the planning register, personalised to each project
  • Your brand on every letter; your approved price bands only
  • Printing, postage and opt-out handling included

The busiest councils, where the register gives the builder 140 or more letters a four weeks.

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The terms, in plain words

One builder per council area
While you hold it, you are the only builder we write to that area's homeowners for: no other firm gets a letter out of it through us.
No contract
Month to month. Cancel any time and you are not billed again.
Priced on your council's letters
Each council is offered the plan its own register earns, counted over the trailing twelve weeks. Billed monthly by card from the day you claim. The price you claim at stays yours for as long as you keep the area.
A card is required to claim
The card is what holds the area for you: it is how we keep one builder per council area honest.
What it costs you otherwise
A printed, posted letter costs us under a pound. A single extension, kitchen or glazing job is worth thousands.

You can see every letter we send for you

The week a letter goes out it appears here, with the job it was about, the day it was posted and the printer's own reference — including the ones that came back undelivered, which you are not charged for. Every reply you log sits beside the letter that caused it.

spadeready.co.uk/statusExample

Merrowfield Build

Subscription: Active · Standard, £149 a month

August 2026

63

letters posted

4

asked you to call

7

replies logged

9 letters are written and waiting. They go out on 17 Sep 2026 unless you hold the batch.

1 came back undelivered. You are not charged for those.

Replies you have had

  • Enquiry · Asked for a call back12 Sep

    Loft conversion with rear dormer · Aldenholt Way, Coulsdon

    Scanned the code on the letter and left a number. Best time to call: after 6pm.

  • Enquiry · Phone11 Sep

    Single-storey rear extension · Marbury Rise, Croydon

    Wants a price before the drawings are finalised. Site visit booked for Thursday.

  • Enquiry · Phone9 Sep

    Rear dormer loft conversion · Kinloss Row, Thornton Heath

    Asked what a dormer adds over a rooflight. Written estimate going out today.

  • Asked us to stop · Post8 Sep

    Wrap-around extension · Ferndale Vale, Purley

    Logged, and that address is suppressed: nobody writes to it again, for you or for any other builder.

Every letter, and what happened to it

  • Aldenholt Way, Coulsdon · Permission grantedPosted10 Sep 2026

    Two-storey side and rear extension

    Posted 10 Sep 2026Reference STP-8841204See the letter as it was printed

  • Marbury Rise, Croydon · Application submittedPosted8 Sep 2026

    Single-storey rear extension

    Posted 8 Sep 2026Reference STP-8836617See the letter as it was printed

  • Brantmoor Gardens, Selsdon · Application submittedReturned5 Sep 2026

    Loft conversion with rear dormer

    Came back undelivered. You were not charged for the postage.

    Posted 5 Sep 2026Reference STP-8829330See the letter as it was printed

  • Kinloss Row, Thornton Heath · Permission grantedPosted3 Sep 2026

    Single-storey side infill extension

    Posted 3 Sep 2026Reference STP-8821958See the letter as it was printed

This is what you see after you sign up: every letter, the day it was posted, the job it was about, and whatever came back. An example account — no real firm, homeowner or address appears on it.

Sample letter

This is what lands on the doormat

A homeowner in Croydon applies to take the conservatory off the back of the house and build a proper rear extension. Days later this arrives, under the builder's name, about that job and no other.

  • Your name, phone number and website at the top; your sign-off at the bottom.
  • Written from the application itself, so it names the project and not a mailshot.
  • A price only ever inside a band you have approved.
  • A code and a short link at the bottom. One scan opens a page in your name with tap-to-call, WhatsApp and a callback form, and every enquiry is logged against the letter it came from, so you can see which letters bring work.
  • A footer naming the data source and an opt-out, as the law requires.

The firm, the street and the phone number on it are invented, and the code on this copy just brings you back to this letter. Everything else is the letter your customers get.

FAQ

Questions builders ask us

Where does the data come from?

From the public planning register. Every council publishes the planning applications it receives; we read them through PlanIt, a service that collects those registers into one place. We store the site address and the application details. We never fetch, store or print applicant or agent names: every letter is addressed to “The Homeowner”.

Is this allowed under PECR and GDPR?

Yes. Post is outside the electronic-marketing rules (PECR). Under UK GDPR we send the letters on the basis of legitimate interests, and every letter carries a data-source line and an opt-out contact (hello@spadeready.co.uk). Anyone who asks not to hear from us is added to a permanent suppression list the same day, and every mailing is screened against the Mailing Preference Service. The full detail is in our privacy notice.

How does exclusivity work?

One builder per council area, full stop. When you claim an area your card holds it, and it shows as “Taken” on this page. While someone is at the checkout it shows as “Being claimed” for a few minutes. While your subscription is active you are the only builder we write to that area’s homeowners for: nobody else can buy it, and nobody else gets the letters.

What happens if I cancel?

You can cancel at any time and you are not charged again. Letters you have already approved are still posted; nothing new is written. At the end of the month you have paid for, the area goes back to “Available” for another firm.

Do I have to approve every letter?

Yes, and it takes one tap a week. You get an email with the week’s letters, you read them if you want to, and you approve the batch. Nothing is printed or posted without that approval.

Where do the prices in the letters come from?

From you. When you claim an area you give us the price bands you are happy to quote (for example, “single-storey rear extensions from £45,000 to £70,000”). The letters only ever quote a band you have approved; we never invent a price.

Which areas can I claim?

Any of them: every local planning authority in the UK, across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Type your postcode at the top of the page to see which council you fall under, and open its page for last month’s figures.

Which trades does it work for?

Extension and loft builders: firms that design and build extensions, loft conversions, dormers, garage and basement conversions. Those are the applications we read, and the letters name the job. Another trade? Register interest under the finder and we will email you the day it opens.

The next planning application in your area is a letter you could have sent.

Claim your area today. No contract, and the slot is yours alone for as long as you keep it.

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