EstiMate is quoting and job software for builders and trades working across Greater Manchester. Price an extension, loft or refurbishment with the materials and labour itemised, send a quote the client can accept on their phone, and run the job from contract to final invoice in one place.
Below is what the ten Greater Manchester councils have approved recently, read from their planning registers, and how EstiMate prices labour for a site in an M, BL, OL, SK, WN or WA postcode.
EstiMate was built in Altrincham, in Trafford, by Dave Groom, founder of Tatton Projects, a design-and-build firm working across Cheshire and Manchester. It started as the spreadsheet Tatton priced its own jobs from and grew into the app that runs its quotes, contracts, sites, invoices and accounts. Every feature in it exists because a real job needed it.
The story behind EstiMate →Applications for building work that the ten Greater Manchester councils approved between 2 October 2026 and 30 October 2026. This is a busy area, so the figures cover the newest decisions on the register rather than a full month.
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applications for building work approved
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Change of use from five self-contained residential flats (Use Class C3) to commercial, business and service units (Use Class E - a, b, c, d, e, f and g) and external…
OL2, Oldham
Typical value £50k–£290k (typical for a commercial fit-out)
Change of use from dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to children's care facility (Use Class C2) for up to three children.
OL1, Oldham
Typical value £60k–£300k (typical for a commercial fit-out)
Garage conversion with amendment of roof of garage/rear outrigger to pitched; front/side porch
BL8, Bury
Typical value £20k–£60k (typical for a garage/outbuilding)
Section 73 application to vary condition 2 (Plans) and condition 3 (External Materials) of planning permission 21/01500/HOUS to apply external render and cladding to…
OL12, Rochdale
Typical value £30k–£100k (typical for a refurbishment)
Erection of a single storey rear/side extension and a new front porch.
M33, Trafford
Typical value £40k–£90k (typical for an extension)
Construction of single-storey front extension and amendments to increase size of existing driveway.
SK15, Tameside
Typical value £40k–£105k (typical for an extension)
Erection of 7 building incidental to the dwellinghouse
SK6, Stockport
Typical value £180k–£350k (typical for a new build)
Installation of fibre optic ethernet connection to the Basement level Cabinet Room
OL6, Tameside
Typical value £100k–£250k (typical for a basement)
Source: the councils' public planning registers, collected by PlanIt and searched by TenderPilot. Checked 30 October 2026 at 17:34 and refreshed about twice a day. Building work leaves out trees, signs and paperwork on existing consents. Locations are shown to postcode district only, no applicant details are shown, and value bands are typical ranges for that kind of work rather than quotes.
See them all on TenderPilot, free to searchReal contracts delivered by Tatton Projects, the contractor EstiMate is built inside, with what each one asked of the software.
Cat B fit-out in a live building · Stockport · circa £175,000
Extension, kitchen install and staircase · Didsbury, Manchester · circa £160,000
EstiMate is made in Manchester by a working contractor. Questions from Manchester: support@esti-mate.app. EstiMate, Piccadilly Business Centre, Unit C, Aldo Enterprise Park, Blackett Street, Manchester M12 6AE.
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Greater Manchester & North West
Postcode areas M, BL, OL, SK, WN, WA: 4% below the national guide
When EstiMate Pro's AI take-off prices a job whose site postcode starts M, BL, OL, SK, WN or WA, it multiplies its national labour day-rate guide by 0.96, the Greater Manchester & North West index, so labour comes out 4% below the national guide. If you set your own day rates in Settings, the AI prices labour from those instead and the index no longer applies.
Materials and labour itemised with your markup and margin, sent as a link the client can accept, decline or query on their phone, with optional extras they can tick.
A build contract generated from the accepted quote, with your payment terms, signed online. Variations are added as signed addenda.
Price additional works from site and send a one-tap approval link. The contract total and invoices update, with a full audit trail.
Invoices with card payment links, payment milestones from the quote, and automatic chasing when an invoice falls overdue.
Receipts, supplier invoices and bank imports land in one ledger: profit and loss for any period, a VAT return helper, the CIS register and aged debtors.
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Main postcode areas: M, BL, OL, SK, WN, WA.
TenderPilot can search any of these councils' planning registers, or all of them at once, free. Search local applications or browse live tenders.
From the public planning registers of the ten Greater Manchester councils, collected by PlanIt, which gathers UK council registers into one search, and read by TenderPilot about twice a day. Councils publish at different speeds, so one that shows few decisions may simply be behind; its own planning portal has the full record.
When EstiMate Pro's AI take-off prices a job whose site postcode starts M, BL, OL, SK, WN or WA, it multiplies its national labour day-rate guide by 0.96, the Greater Manchester & North West index, so labour comes out 4% below the national guide. If you set your own day rates in Settings, the AI prices labour from those instead and the index no longer applies. Once you know your rates, entering them is the better option.
It was built in Altrincham, in Trafford, by Dave Groom, founder of Tatton Projects, a design-and-build firm working across Cheshire and Manchester. It works the same for builders anywhere in the UK.
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