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When a construction database is not built for what you sell.

Construction project databases are very good at what they were built for: following buildings from planning application to contract award, for contractors and building product suppliers. If what you sell is bought because a company was allowed to do more — more vehicles, more tonnes, more megawatts — much of the reason never passes through a planning application at all.

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PR/WX7718YZ/V006written for process and treatment plant

Chemical blender cleared to store 40% more on the same footprint

Permitted storage rises by 40% within the existing buildings.
Two new bunded tank areas and a vapour recovery unit are required.
No planning application: nothing is being built above ground.
Varied 8 September 2026.

Tanks, bunding and abatement to buy, a contractor to install them, and not a single planning application to find it by. This is the kind of change a construction feed cannot show you.

What puts a card here: A company is permitted to do more, whether or not anything is being built.
When the money moves: A permission is worth most in the month it is granted; so is the call.

Side by side.

Neither is better in general. They answer different questions, and many suppliers need both.

Aspect	Construction project databases	Stanfell
What it follows	Buildings and civil works, from planning application to contract award	Permissions to run, process, discharge or connect more, dated on a public record
Built for	Contractors, subcontractors and building product suppliers	Suppliers whose customers buy because they were allowed to grow
Changes with no building work	Usually invisible, because nothing goes to planning	The core of it: fleet growth, tonnage, discharge limits, connection dates
The figure you get	Project value and floor area	The units you sell into: vehicles, tonnes a year, cubic metres a day, megawatts
What arrives	A searchable database to work through	A short weekly set of cards in your categories, each with its reading
To start	A demo and an annual subscription	A work email and a free month

Three things the card tells you that a list cannot.

The permission is the start of it. What makes the call worth making is what the other records say about the company holding it, 13 of them read together.

Changes that need no planning application — a larger fleet, a higher tonnage, a tighter limit — which a construction feed never sees.
The figure that sizes what you sell: vehicles, cubic metres a day, megawatts, not the floor area of a building.
A reading for your trade in one paragraph, instead of a project record you have to interpret yourself.

Who reads this one.

Equipment suppliers outside building products
Fleet, finance and transport services
Process, treatment and monitoring suppliers
Energy supply chain beyond the main contractor

Questions about this one.

Should I cancel my construction database?

Not if you sell into buildings. If most of your customers buy because of new construction, a construction database is the right tool. Stanfell is for the reasons to buy that never pass through planning, and many suppliers will want both.

Is Stanfell a database I can search?

No. It is a short list each week in the categories you choose, with the reading written for your trade. The archive of what you have received stays in your account.

Start with next Monday.

A work email is all it takes. Choose up to 3 categories and the week’s cards are waiting. If it is not worth your Monday, stop after the free month and nothing happens.

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Other ways in

Leads before the tender: private UK projectsA private company is permitted to grow, months before it chooses a supplier.Operator licence leads: UK fleets growing weeklyAn operator applies to raise its authorised vehicles or trailers, or to add a centre.Industrial project leads for equipment suppliersA site is cleared to open, to raise its capacity or to take a new material.