If you’re using ConstructionLeads.ie
ConstructionLeads.ie is one way to find work. Here’s the other.
An Irish site that publishes the planning register and commencement notices by county, free to any registered user. It sells you a homeowner’s job, shared with other trades who then compete on price. PlanningLeads works the other way round: it shows you the project the job came from, earlier, filtered to your trade, and never resold to a rival.
What ConstructionLeads.ie does well
It is genuinely free and genuinely open: the same public pipeline we work from, county by county, commencement notices flagged, and nothing between you and it but an email address. If you want to read the register for nothing, it lets you.
Where the model leaves you exposed
Free and open to everyone is the model, and it is also the limit. Every account in the country sees the same page you do, the day you do, and the contact behind each unlock is the agent who drew the plans, whose job is to win consent rather than to buy your package. Three unlocks a day is a ration, and a ration on the public record is an odd thing to be grateful for. Nothing there is wrong; it is what a free register reader is.
The different approach
Own the pipeline, not one shared job
Ireland publishes every planning application and commencement notice. PlanningLeads assembles all of it, from all 31 authorities, and hands you the part that matters to your trade, first.
Earlier in the story
You see a project when it files for planning or a commencement notice, before it's ever advertised as a job.
Yours, not shared
It's the public pipeline, not a lead we resold to three rivals. Nobody else buys the same one from us.
Filtered and sized
Narrowed to your trade and your counties, with the modelled value of the work to you on every site.
Side by side
ConstructionLeads.ie vs PlanningLeads
| ConstructionLeads.ie | PlanningLeads | |
|---|---|---|
| When you hear about the work | At planning or commencement, the same day as every other account | At planning or commencement, first, before it's advertised |
| Who else gets the same thing | Every free account in the country, reading the same register | Nobody. It's the public pipeline, not a resold lead |
| What you're competing on | Nothing separates you from the next account on the same page | Being first, on bigger and earlier work |
| What you're paying for | Free, rationed to three contact unlocks a day | From €29/mo for every project in your county |
| What you actually see | The register by county, with the agent's contact where one is listed | Every project in your county, mapped, filtered to your trade and sized by what it's worth |
You don’t have to choose
ConstructionLeads is free and shows the public register, so there is no reason not to have an account. PlanningLeads is the layer on top of that register: every project in your county filtered to your trade, sized by what it is worth, flagged the week it breaks ground and sent to you as an alert, with no daily ration.
See it working, no signup
Every figure links back to the official public record.
Compare the others: all lead-site comparisons.