UK Lift Signal

Every lift job entering UK planning, before it goes to tender

Planning applications almost never say the word “lift”. The lift is a label on a floor plan. We read the drawings, find the job, and send it to one installer per region.

~110
lift jobs found
per month
8 in 9
invisible to a keyword
search of applications
87%
come with the
architect named
1
installer per region,
and no more
How it works

Four steps, run every month

1

Scan every application

Around 3,320 medium and large planning applications are submitted across the UK every month. We take all of them.

2

Read drawings and images

Floor plans, sections and design statements, read for lift work. Scanned drawings are next as OCR comes online.

3

Verify by hand

Every job is checked against the live council portal before it reaches you, with the quote from the document that proves it.

4

Name the architect

The practice that drew the lift, taken off the drawing title block, with address, company number, directors and contact.

The difference

Why these are jobs you are not seeing

Every general construction-data service indexes the text of an application. That is the one place a lift is never mentioned.

Applications never say “lift”

8 in 9 of the lift jobs we find are invisible to a keyword search of application text. The lift is a label on a floor plan, not a word in the description. If your data provider indexes descriptions, it cannot see these.

You get them at submission

These are live applications, sent as they appear. Not approvals, not contract awards. You are talking to the architect while the lift is still a box on a drawing and nothing has been specified.

The architect, not just the applicant

The firm that specifies the lift is named on the drawing. We supply the practice on 87% of jobs and a verified email or phone on 49%. The rest carry firm, address and directors.

Regional slots

One installer per region

Take your patch and every lift job that comes through planning there is sent to you as it appears. While you hold it, we do not sell it to anyone else.

Region Area covered Jobs / month Monthly
London All 32 boroughs and the City of London, as one undivided patch 30–40 £700
South East Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Bucks, Herts, Hampshire 18–26 £440
Scotland All 32 Scottish council areas 14–20 £340
Midlands West and East Midlands, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Notts, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire 8–14 £220
South West & Wales Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and all of Wales 8–12 £200
East of England Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire 6–10 £160
North West Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria 6–10 est. Not available
Yorkshire West, South and North Yorkshire, Humberside 5–8 est. Not available
North East Tyne and Wear, Durham, Northumberland, Teesside 2–4 est. Not available
Northern Ireland All 11 council areas — separate planning system 2–4 est. Not available
Optional add-on

Or have us do the outreach for you

Every job in your region, contacted on your behalf — automated email, LinkedIn, or both, to the architect and the agent while the lift is still being drawn. Sent in your name, replies come straight back to you. You just take the calls.

£350
from, per month
on top of your regional slot
Terms

How the agreement works

Exclusive

While you hold a region we do not sell it to anyone else. No bidding against three other firms working off the same list.

First month half price

Subject to availability. Try a full month of your region at half the rate before you decide whether to carry on.

Volume guarantee

Every region carries a stated band. Any month that lands below 60% of it is credited in full.

No ongoing commitment

Thirty-day rolling. No contract to sign and nothing to tie you in. Cancel whenever you like.

Price held 12 months

Your rate is fixed for a year from the day you start, whatever we list at later.

FAQ

Questions we get asked

We open the documents attached to each application and read them, drawings included. A lift is designed on a drawing, so it turns up as a room label on a floor plan, a lift shaft on a section, or a line in a design and access statement. It is almost never in the application description, which is the only thing a general construction-data service reads.
At submission. These are live applications, sent as they appear on the council portal, not approvals and not contract awards. In practice that means you are speaking to the architect while the lift is still a box on a drawing and no supplier has been specified.
The site address and postcode, the council and planning reference, the building type, the date it was submitted, a link to the portal, and the quote from the document that shows there is a lift, so you can judge it yourself. Plus the agent and the architect: firm, postal address, Companies House number and directors on most jobs, and a verified email or phone on around half.
While you hold a region, nobody else buys that region from us. Every job we find in your patch goes to you and to no other installer, for as long as you hold it.
Yes. Plenty of installers have no time to chase a list, so we can run the approach for you: automated email, LinkedIn, or both, to the architect and the agent on every job in your region. It goes out in your name and under your branding, and replies come directly to you rather than through us. That is from £350 a month on top of your regional slot, and you can start or stop it independently of the feed.
Planning volume moves with the season, so each region is sold against a band rather than a fixed number. If a month lands below 60% of the bottom of your band, that month is credited in full. You are never paying a flat fee for a month that did not deliver.
Those regions are not open at the moment. The volumes shown against them are estimates so you can see roughly what to expect. Get in touch and we will let you know as soon as one becomes available.
Every job comes from the public planning register, which councils publish by law. We add nothing from third-party data brokers. Contact details are business contact details for firms acting professionally on the application, and we drop anything that looks personal rather than corporate.

The lift is already on the drawing.

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Or email us directly: hello@b2bdatascout.co.uk