For drainage contractors
Almost every new development needs a drainage strategy before it can get permission, so the planning application is where drainage work first becomes visible. PlanFalcon monitors UK planning applications for surface water, foul drainage, SuDS and flood-risk signals, and ranks the schemes worth a call.
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Planning authorities expect a flood risk assessment and a drainage strategy on most new-build schemes, and the application description often says so: attenuation, a pumping station, a new outfall, sustainable drainage. That is your scope, described in public, months before anyone asks for a price.
The problem is finding it. The same register is full of extensions, tree works and changes of use with no drainage in them, and descriptions are written by planning agents, not drainage engineers. Reading them all by hand is slow, and it is easy to miss the one that mattered.
PlanFalcon reads them for you and puts the applications with drainage signals at the top.
These are the signals PlanFalcon looks for in application descriptions. None of them guarantees a package — they tell you which applications deserve a closer look.
Sustainable drainage, attenuation, swales, balancing ponds and soakaways — the surface water strategy a new scheme has to show before it is approved.
Foul water connections, new sewers and pumping stations, often needed where a site is some distance from the existing network.
Flood risk assessments, flood mitigation and alleviation, culverts and work near watercourses — frequently the reason a drainage scheme is more than routine.
Residential unit counts and site areas. A 100-home scheme on a greenfield site carries a different drainage package from a single infill plot.
Drainage is often left to a planning condition, so the detailed design comes back as a discharge-of-condition application. PlanFalcon can alert you when one is submitted for a scheme you are tracking.
Pick the towns or postcodes you cover and how far you travel. PlanFalcon watches the planning authorities that cover them.
Choose drainage and the related services you offer, the kind of schemes you want and the size range that suits your firm.
Each application is scored for civils relevance and against your profile. You see why it was flagged — SuDS, a pumping station, a flood risk assessment, 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 or its drainage condition comes in.
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.
What to sell: Drainage / water package
Installation of two canopies and associated works
Matched trade signals
What to sell: Drainage / water package
Section 73A application to vary condition 2 (Approved plans) of permission PAP/2022/0139 (Proposed construction of an artificial grass pitch with associated features including six 15m high floodlights for new artificial grass pitch and the grass rugby pitch; 4.5m high mesh ball stop fencing; 1.2m and 2m high pitch barriers; hard standing circulation areas; access lighting; soft landscaping; improved access and parking areas. Inlcudibng additional parking area with access from Royal Meadow Drive.) to allow for amended drainage strategy
Matched trade signals
What to sell: Drainage / water package
Discharge of conditions for 25/00891/S73 - Variation of conditions 1 (approved plans), 3 (Fume equipment), 10 (Motor cycle parking) , 13 (Tree protection), 15 (Flood Risk and Drainage) , 16 (Drainage Maintenance), 18 (Finished Floor Level), 19 (Flood Emergency Plan), 20 (Travel Plan) and 21 (Contamination) of 24/00554/FULL - Erection of a drive-thru restaurant (Use Class E/Sui Generis) with associated access, servicing, car parking, landscaping and other associated works following demolition of existing bingo hall - condition 25
Matched trade signals
What to sell: Drainage / water package
Approval of details reserved by condition imposed under BN/33/26/PL relating to condition 4-details of any relevant permissions relating to the discharge locations of SuDS scheme.
Matched trade signals
Recent applications in some of the busiest planning authorities we cover.
Tell PlanFalcon what your company does and where you work, and see which planning applications look like drainage work for you.
