PlanFalcon

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. PlanFalcon 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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Planning-stage intelligence, without reading every register.

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.

PlanFalcon 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 PlanFalcon 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. PlanFalcon 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 PlanFalcon 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: Drainage / water package

Discharge of Conditions 4 (Sustainable Construction), 6 (Construction Method Statement), 8 (Boundary Treatments), 11 (Highways Works), 13 (Adoptable Streets), 17 (Surface Water Disposal), 19 (CEMP) and 20 (LEMP) of approved application 22/03940/FUL

Matched trade signals

Drainage / SuDS scopeHighways / access scope
Planning reference
26/03341/DISCON
Location
Land South West Of Lucker Hall Steading Lucker Northumberland
Submitted
Submitted 7 days ago
Sales opportunityUndecided

What to sell: Infrastructure package

Proposed new agricultural building.

Matched trade signals

Highways / access scope
Planning reference
DM/2026/01151
Location
Land Adjacent To Wyastone Leys Fishery A40 Trunk Road From Hardwick Roundabout To Monmouth Monmouthshire
Submitted
Submitted 7 days ago
Sales opportunityUndecided

What to sell: Infrastructure package

Details pursuant to condition 3 (lighting design) of planning permission 24/00802/FUL.

Matched trade signals

Highways / access scope
Planning reference
PA/2026/0894
Location
Junction Of Waterloo Road, Old Wokingham Road and Peacock Lane
Submitted
Submitted 7 days ago
Sales opportunityUndecided

What to sell: Infrastructure package

Details of Condition 8 (Vehicular Access Road), Condition 10 (Street Naming and Numbering), Condition 16b (Post Completion Noise Assessment), Condition 18 (Biodiversity Enhancement Strategy) and Condition 24 (Car Park Management Plan) submitted pursuant to permission P/2023/2621 dated 12/04/2024 for Erection of nine residential houses with associated private amenity space and parking incorporating an upgrade of the existing footpath to Syon Lane Station

Matched trade signals

Highways / access scope
Planning reference
P/2026/2690
Location
Land at Rothbury Gardens,Isleworth,TW7 5JG
Submitted
Submitted 7 days ago
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Explore planning activity by area

Recent applications in some of the busiest planning authorities we cover.

Questions

Is PlanFalcon 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?
PlanFalcon 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 PlanFalcon 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. PlanFalcon gives your team earlier visibility and a better-qualified shortlist; the relationships and the bid are still yours.

Find the schemes with civils scope in your region.

Set your territory and the work you want, and see planning applications ranked for your firm.

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