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Who in Britain applied to grow this week.

Before a company can run more lorries, process more waste, house more livestock or build a battery site, it has to ask in public, with numbers and a date. CapexRadar reads 13 registers of those requests, matches each one to the company behind it, and keeps only the ones that point to a possible purchase.

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How the engine reads
companies in the index
48,447
sites and plants
74,150
permits and licences
86,017
dated records read
75,726

Index counted on 21 October 2026. CapexRadar is the engine behind Stanfell.

  • Scotland39
  • Northern Ireland15
  • North East22
  • North West69
  • Yorkshire and the Humber56
  • Wales15
  • West Midlands53
  • East Midlands54
  • East of England62
  • South West46
  • London21
  • South East55
Cards by region, since 21 September 2026514 in all, 7 not placed

514

companies published as cards

2,295

vehicles applied for by hauliers

12,464

MW of battery and solar connections

96

waste, water and livestock site applications

Since 21 September 2026; last updated 6 November 2026. To quote a figure: “CapexRadar, capexradar.uk, 6 November 2026”.

Where the growth is, by sector.

Each sector has a page that fills itself as the engine publishes: running totals, the regions, and a monthly archive. Swipe or scroll along.

The UK fleet growth index, week by week

What it reads.

Records a company cannot avoid, because it cannot grow without them, read together with what is filed about the company itself.

  • Operator licence applicationsHow many lorries and trailers a fleet wants to run, and from where.
  • Environmental permitsWhat a site may process or a farm may house, in what quantity, and what it must measure.
  • Grid connection offersThe date a generating or storage project must connect by.
  • Capacity agreementsA binding commitment to deliver power from a dated year.
  • Planning approvalsGenerating stations allowed to be built, with their capacity.
  • Company filingsWho owns the holder, what it earns, what it holds in cash.
  • Registered chargesWhether a lender already has security over the assets.

What it refuses.

Most records mean nothing to a supplier. Each lead is read overnight against the same four checks, every figure, date and quote is checked against its public record, and a record that fails is not published.

  • Something changedA count raised, a capacity added, a project committed. A renewal or a transfer is not a signal.
  • It carries a figure or a dateWithout a number to size it or a date to act by, there is nothing a supplier can do with it.
  • The company is knownThe holder is matched to a registered business with confidence, or the record is dropped.
  • Someone can sell into itA reading is written for at least one trade. If nobody sells into it, it is not published.

Selling on what a company just applied to do.

Short pieces for sales teams on reading public records as buying signals.

All of the method

2 min read

Capex signals from UK public records, explained

Before a British company can grow in certain ways, it has to ask permission in public. That request is the earliest reliable sign of capital spending there is.

2 min read

Trigger events for UK equipment suppliers

Sales teams are told to watch for trigger events. Most of the advice is about software buyers. Equipment buyers leave better triggers, if you know where they are.

1 min read

Planning approvals as sales leads for suppliers

Planning approvals are the best-known public signal of future spending, and the most over-sold. Here is how to tell the ones that mean an order from the ones that mean nothing yet.

1 min read

Operator licences as fleet buying signals

An operator licence application is the most precise public signal in road transport: it says how many vehicles, where, and by when the decision falls.

4 min read

Operator licence check: how to look up an O licence

Every goods vehicle operator in Great Britain is on a public record. An operator licence check, or O licence check, takes two minutes; reading the result properly takes a little longer.

3 min read

Waste carrier licence check: how to look one up

Anyone who moves waste for a business in the UK must be registered, and the registers are public. A check takes a minute; knowing what it proves takes a little longer.

Questions.

What is the difference between CapexRadar and Stanfell?
CapexRadar is the engine: it reads the records, matches the companies and throws away what means nothing. Stanfell is where suppliers read the result, written up for their trade, every weekday morning. This site shows what the engine may publish in the open.
Where does the information come from?
From public UK records that a company has to file or obtain before it can grow in certain ways, read alongside what is publicly filed about the company itself. It is published under the Open Government Licence, and we publish companies, never people.
Why are company names delayed by thirty days?
Because in its first month a record is a sales lead, and that is what Stanfell is for. After thirty days it is history, and the name appears here for the cards Stanfell shows every reader; the rest stay unnamed here too.
How often is it updated?
The engine runs every weekday night. These pages are rebuilt several times a day, so a new run appears within hours of being published.
Is this a list of companies I can download?
No. This site publishes counts and, after the delay, names. The cards themselves, with the figures, the dates and the reading for your trade, are on Stanfell.

The counts are here. The cards are on Stanfell.

Every weekday morning, the companies in your trade that just applied to grow: the figure, the date, who they are and what it means for what you sell. A work email is all it takes to try it: 7 days of one market in full, then a quarter of each day’s new cards in every market.

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