We monitor council approvals, construction activity and government projects so you don't have to.
Every dot behind this is a real project we are tracking right now. The green ones are this fortnight's highest scores.
10 Dangar Street Wickham 2293
CFT-1047320 · NSW Planning Portal · Call this week
Not because you are slower. Because the information is scattered across twenty websites, none of which were built for you, and none of which tell you which of it is worth a phone call.
Realistically: 2–3 hours a week, and you still miss the good ones.
Realistically: 10 minutes a week, and a call list you can actually work.
These are genuine records pulled from the NSW Planning Portal in the 14 days to 2026-10-26. Every figure is from the public record; the score, the electrical estimate and the timing are ours.
10 Dangar Street Wickham 2293
Construction certificate issued · Newcastle
237 Wharf Road Newcastle 2300
Construction certificate issued · Newcastle
91 Sparks Road Woongarrah
Construction certificate issued · Central Coast
In that same fortnight we tracked 2,309 new or updated projects worth $1.89bn in declared construction value, and filtered them down to 67 worth acting on. 269 of them named the building company.
There is no magic here and we are not going to pretend there is. The data is public. The work is in collecting it every day, checking it, scoring it, and cutting 3,900 records down to the dozen that matter to you.
Development applications, complying development certificates and construction certificates for Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Cessnock, Singleton, Muswellbrook, Dungog, MidCoast and Central Coast — straight from the NSW Planning Portal's open data feeds.
The same job can appear three times as it moves through approval. We link records by address into one project with its full history, then cross-check every dollar figure against floor area and dwelling counts so obvious errors never reach you.
Sector, approval stage, value, distance from you, and high-intent signals like a named builder or solar and EV scope. A construction certificate for a medical centre beats a much bigger subdivision application, because one needs a sparky in a fortnight and the other in two years.
Not a database. A ranked list of the projects worth your time, with the estimated electrical scope, who to contact, and when to ring them. New jobs that match your patch arrive by email, daily or weekly. Watch a project or a builder and we email you the day a builder is named or the stage moves.
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Issue 01 is a genuine 14-day analysis of every approval lodged across ten councils — 2,309 projects, scored and cut down to a call list, with the builder watchlist, the sector breakdown and the funded public pipeline.
No sign-up wall. If it is not useful, you have lost ten minutes and we have lost nothing worth keeping.
Tradiesignal is new. Rather than invent a testimonial from "Dave, Sparky, Newcastle", here is what we will publish the moment we have it — and what we are measuring to get there.
"Placeholder: a named local contractor, their business size, the specific project they found through the report, and what it was worth."
"Placeholder: a contractor describing a builder relationship that started from the watchlist rather than a single job."
"Placeholder: time saved, in the customer's own words, against what they used to do on a Sunday night."
Why this section is empty. Fake testimonials are the fastest way to lose a trade audience — Newcastle is a small town and everyone knows everyone. Until a real subscriber says something we can attribute, this space stays honest.
The NSW Planning Portal's ePlanning open data feeds, published by the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure under a Creative Commons Attribution licence and refreshed daily. We pull development applications, complying development certificates and construction certificates for all ten councils across the Hunter and Central Coast, then merge, score and filter them. Government tenders and funded infrastructure are added on top. It is all public information — the work we do is finding it, cleaning it, and telling you which of it is worth your time.
The council trackers show you one council, with no scoring, no filtering, no electrical estimate, and no way to see across the region. More importantly, they do not show you construction certificates with the builder's name on them. That single field is the difference between knowing a project exists and knowing who to ring about it.
We apply an industry percentage to the cost of development that the applicant lodged with council, varying by sector — a battery installation is mostly electrical, a subdivision is mostly civil. It is an estimate for ranking where to spend your week. It is not a quote and we present it as a range, never a single number.
By checking them. Declared costs are entered by applicants and never audited, so the raw feed contains real errors — the current dataset includes a two-dwelling development lodged at $1.375 billion. We cross-check every figure against floor area, dwelling count and lot count. Anything that fails is flagged in the report and excluded from our totals. We would rather show you a project with no number than a number that is wrong.
Subscribers see the same public data — we are not pretending otherwise. What we sell is time and timing. Most electricians never look at this data at all, and the ones who do are looking a month too late. We also cap Starter and Professional subscriptions in each council area so a single list is not being worked by fifty people.
Then this is the wrong month to subscribe, and we would rather you said so. Come back when the pipeline thins out — it always does. The electricians who get the most out of this are the ones who want to change the mix of their work, not just the volume: moving from domestic call-outs into commercial fitout, or getting on a builder's regular list.
No, and be suspicious of anyone who does. We guarantee the data is accurate to the public record, delivered on time, and that you can cancel in one click. If your first two reports do not turn up a single project worth a phone call, email us and we will refund you.
Every council from Gosford to Muswellbrook and up the coast to Taree: Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Cessnock, Singleton, Muswellbrook, Dungog, MidCoast and Central Coast. Wollongong and Sydney are next. The data source is state-wide, so expansion is a matter of coverage and support, not engineering. Tell us where you work and we will weight the queue.
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Covering Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Cessnock, Singleton, Muswellbrook, Dungog, MidCoast and Central Coast.