The moment a DA is approved in your suburbs, we print and post a letter to the homeowner in your name. Same day. Before your competitors know.
One pool fence job at $5,000 covers your subscription for over 8 years. One won job is all it takes.
From DA approval to your letter in the homeowner's letterbox in under 24 hours. Works for any trade triggered by construction events.
We scan the NSW planning portal every morning. When a DA or CDC is approved in any suburb you serve, we trigger the letter workflow immediately. Approval stage only, not lodgement. By the time your competitors see it on PlanningAlerts, your letter has been posted.
A professional letter goes to the homeowner at the approved address. Your business name, your phone number, your branding. We handle the printing, the envelope, and the stamp. You never touch it.
Your weekly digest lists every approved DA in your suburbs: address, job type, estimated value, letter status. You know exactly what is in your pipeline and what letters have gone out.
The homeowner has their DA in hand. They are ready to proceed. They have your letter in front of them. You are first in the door, before any tradie search, before any referral, before any competitor hears about the job.
Enter your trade and suburbs and we will send you a free report of every relevant DA approved in the last 30 days. No card. No commitment.
We send the report within 24 hours. Your details are never shared or sold.
Sample data across trades, showing the format of what you receive. Click any pin to see the DA detail and letter status. Drag to explore.
Pick your trade and suburbs. Cancel any time.
One pool fence job at $5,000 covers over 8 years of subscription ($49/mo). One won job is the whole ROI argument.
The approval-stage + letters combination is the gap. hipages shares your quote request with three to five other tradies. PlanningAlerts has no trade filter and no action layer.
| Service | Price | Approval stage alerts? | Daily? | Posts letters for you? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LeadPost | $49/mo + $4.00/letter | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| hipages | $100–600/mo | No (homeowner posts) | Varies | No |
| PlanningAlerts | Free (personal use only) | No (lodgement only) | No | No |
Pricing verified June 2026. hipages business page; PlanningAlerts terms of service.
The NSW ePlanning Portal, the same public database used by councils to publish all DA and CDC decisions. We scan it daily and filter for approvals only, in your nominated suburbs. Data is published under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 by the NSW Department of Planning.
The letter introduces your business, mentions that you noticed their recent approval, and invites them to get a quote. It carries your business name, phone number, and optional logo. We can show you the exact template before you sign up. The homeowner receives a professional letter from you, not from us.
Yes. LeadPost works alongside any other lead source. The key difference: you are reaching homeowners before they post a job on hipages, before they search Google, before anyone else knows the job is happening. Most subscribers treat it as a proactive channel that runs in the background while they continue using whatever they already use.
Some months are quiet. We show you real volume data before you pay. The free sample report tells you exactly how many DAs were approved in your suburbs in the last 30 days. If the volume is too low for your trade, we will tell you upfront and suggest adjacent suburbs with higher activity.
Both. Many pools under $50k in straightforward residential areas go through CDC (Complying Development), which is faster. We monitor both the DA feed and the CDC feed so you do not miss approvals that skip the full DA process.
Yes. You approve the template once at signup. After that, every letter uses your approved template with the DA details filled in automatically. You receive the weekly digest showing every letter sent and to which address.
Pool fencing, landscaping, fencing and retaining walls, driveways and paving, demolition and excavation, and arborists. If a building approval triggers demand for your trade, LeadPost can alert you to it. Sign up for the free report and tell us your trade if it is not listed.