Security contracts: the sites that need cover this week

A pub applies for its licence weeks before it opens, a depot is licensed before its first lorry arrives, and a unit that changes hands needs its keys and alarm response moved. We tell you which sites are at that point, and the job each points to: door staff, patrols, keyholding or site security.

Why timing matters

Premises licence applications, operator licences, the waste carrier register, food registrations and the councils' rates lists each show a premises at the moment its security gets decided. We read them every day, grade each row for a security services desk and tag it with the work it points to: door supervision for a licensed premises, mobile patrols or a CCTV tower for a yard, site security for a unit in fit-out, a manned post for a large site, or keyholding and alarm response for the rest.

What we tell you

The moments that matter for you:

Each row also says how much burglary, vehicle crime, criminal damage, robbery and shoplifting the police recorded in the neighbourhood around the premises in the latest three months, and how that compares with every neighbourhood in the UK. It describes the area, never the business. Scotland's police don't publish it, so Scottish rows leave it blank.

How to use it

Work the licensed premises and the yards first, then the units coming out of fit-out. The job column says what you'd offer before you ring; the reason column says why now.

Last week in numbers

In the daily files from 17 to 23 October 2026, businesses that took on premises, changed hands or were about to, graded A or B for a security services desk: 296 across Great Britain, 123 of them opening or about to and 173 just moved in or under a new owner. 240 came with a landline to ring. 33% of them could not have been flagged by a service working from Companies House alone: the premises isn't the registered office, or nothing new was on the register.

Some of last week's rows for North West, said in words (the file has the name, the address, the number and where each came from):

• A gym or leisure site business in Liverpool, not open yet, 21 October. A landline to ring. A mailbox.
• A takeaway in Oldham, opening or just opened, 22 October. A line at the premises, which may be the last occupier’s.
• A food manufacturer in Wirral, opening or just opened, 22 October. A landline to ring.
• A residential care activities n.e.c. business in Rochdale, moved in, 22 October. A landline to ring.

Counted from the daily files dated 17 to 23 October 2026, the seven days to the latest file, as they were read on 24 October 2026. Each event is counted once, on the first file it reached.

Coverage

The national registers cover every council in Great Britain. On top of those, 96 councils publish a business rates list we can use and 69 a licensing register (as of 25 October 2026), and more are added each week. Northern Ireland isn't in the file yet. Where the data comes from.

Built for selling within the rules: businesses not people, every row with its source and date, and nothing your team can't explain to someone who asks. How it's done.

Questions

Do you know what security they have now?

No. That isn't public. We tell you the site, the business, what happened there and when, and the job it points to.

How is this different from buying a list?

A list is a snapshot of businesses that exist. This is what changed yesterday: who moved in, who took over, who left. A bought list can't tell you any of that, and it's out of date the day it arrives.

How do you find them?

From public registers, read every day and kept, so we can see when something changes at an address. The sources are on the sources page. How we put them together is ours, and we don't publish it.

Is there personal data in it?

Almost none. The file is about businesses and premises: no director names, no home addresses. Where a business publishes only a named address on its own website, the daily file carries it in a marked column, as the privacy notice says; a sample never does. Where a phone number or a mailbox is public, we say where it came from.

Can we email or ring them?

Limited companies and LLPs can be emailed without prior consent under PECR, if you say who you are and give a way to opt out. Phone numbers are yours to screen against the TPS and CTPS before you ring.

What does it cost?

£250 a month for a region, or £1,000 a month for the whole of Great Britain, monthly, and you can stop at any month's end. The first two weeks are free, so your team can try it on real rows before paying anything.

Is the file exclusive?

Not the whole file, but you can have a head start. First look sends your trade's new rows for your region to you each morning, a working day before anyone else in your trade gets them, for one firm per trade and region: £375 a month for a region, or £1,500 a month for Great Britain, on the same terms.

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