Parcel-Specific Assessment
No Two Parcels Have the Same Combination of Opportunities and Constraints
Land is not a uniform commodity. Its development potential depends on a combination of location, planning policy, physical form, environmental conditions, infrastructure, ownership, legal rights, market demand and the costs needed to create an acceptable scheme.
Those considerations interact. A strong settlement-edge location may be undermined by an access that cannot be improved within the owner’s control. A parcel with excellent frontage may have limited capacity because of steep levels, heritage sensitivity or a strategic sewer. A constrained parcel may nevertheless be important where it provides the only route into a larger development area.
The correct question is not whether land of this general type or in this general area can be developed. It is whether this identified parcel, with its actual boundaries and rights, can support a particular form and scale of development at a realistic cost and within an appropriate planning period.
Valuation follows the same logic. A price achieved for another site can be useful evidence, but the comparable must be adjusted for planning status, capacity, obligations, abnormal costs, timing and certainty. Without that analysis, the apparent comparison may be misleading.
Planning Position
Allocation, settlement boundaries, Green Belt, neighbourhood policy and emerging Local Plan evidence can affect one parcel differently from another.
Access and Connectivity
Frontage, visibility, pedestrian links, highway capacity and ownership of the access route are specific to the land being assessed.
Shape and Levels
The parcel’s dimensions, gradients, boundaries and existing features influence layout efficiency and the net developable area.
Environmental Effects
Flood risk, drainage, ecology, landscape, heritage and trees vary spatially and may affect only particular parts of a holding.
Ownership and Rights
Covenants, easements, tenancies, wayleaves, access rights and third-party land can determine whether a planning opportunity is deliverable.
Development Economics
Capacity, infrastructure, planning obligations, abnormal costs, sales values and timing determine the residual amount available for the parcel.
A parcel should never be dismissed or valued by label alone. “Agricultural land”, “Green Belt land”, “brownfield land” or “land beside a housing site” describes only part of the position. The individual evidence determines what the land may realistically contribute and what it may be worth.
What the Principle Means
Assess the Parcel, Its Edges and Its Wider Dependencies
An assessment in the parcel’s own right is not an isolated desktop exercise. It starts with the identified land and then examines the relationships that affect whether that land can function as a development site.
The Land Itself
Review the area, shape, topography, existing uses, policy designations, habitats, flood risk, utilities, contamination and the physical features located within the parcel.
The Boundaries and Interfaces
Check road frontage, visibility, neighbouring homes and businesses, trees, hedgerows, ditches, rights of way, ownership discrepancies and whether improvement works extend beyond the title.
The Wider Context
Consider settlement form, services, transport, adjoining ownerships, off-site drainage, highway works, utility capacity, cumulative impacts and whether the parcel depends on or unlocks a wider scheme.
A registered title is not always the correct unit of planning analysis. One title can contain several fields with different constraints. Conversely, a coherent development site can combine parts of several titles. The assessment boundary should reflect the land actually being considered while respecting the legal ownership and rights needed to deliver it.
The parcel should be tested both independently and, where relevant, in combination with adjoining land. That avoids two opposite errors: assuming the parcel is worthless because it cannot support a complete scheme alone, or assuming it has full development value when it only works as one component of a larger assembly.
The assessment must also identify assumptions. If access relies on land outside the title, drainage requires an easement, or the capacity depends on a neighbouring allocation, those dependencies should be stated rather than treated as secured.
A Clear Parcel Definition Should Confirm
A Simple Comparison
Why Two Similar-Looking Parcels Can Produce Different Conclusions
Consider two adjoining ten-acre fields on the edge of the same settlement. Their location and gross acreage are similar, but the detailed assessment produces a different planning and valuation position.
Illustrative Parcel A
Directly Connected and Largely Unconstrained
Illustrative Parcel B
Dependent on Rights and Heavily Constrained
The comparison does not prove that Parcel A will obtain permission or that Parcel B cannot be developed. It demonstrates why the same acreage and postcode do not produce the same answer. Parcel B may become viable if access rights are secured, constraints are incorporated into open space or it is combined with other land.
Equally, Parcel A should not be assigned an assumed development value until planning policy, infrastructure, obligations, capacity and market evidence are tested. A favourable initial profile improves the opportunity but does not replace due diligence.
A neighbouring permission should therefore be treated as evidence to investigate, not a template to copy. The decision notice, approved plans, access arrangements, technical reports and planning balance should be compared with the characteristics of the parcel under review.
Attributable Considerations
Which Matters Are Properly Attributable to the Parcel?
A parcel-specific assessment should identify where each opportunity, constraint, cost and benefit arises. This is particularly important where a wider development includes several landowners or shared infrastructure.
Direct On-Site Matters
Features and costs physically within the parcel, such as levels, contamination, habitats, trees, utility apparatus, buildings and drainage requirements.
Boundary and Interface Matters
Access frontage, visibility, neighbouring amenity, edge treatment, hedgerows, ditches and works that cross or depend on the parcel boundary.
Off-Site Dependencies
Highway improvements, utility reinforcement, drainage outfalls, easements and third-party rights needed to make development of the parcel possible.
Shared Scheme Requirements
Primary roads, schools, open space, strategic drainage and other facilities serving several parcels and requiring a fair allocation methodology.
Parcel-Specific Benefits
Development capacity, access control, policy support or infrastructure contributions made by the parcel that enhance its own or the wider site’s value.
Timing and Risk
The probability, evidence, expenditure and time required to resolve matters attributable to the parcel before planning or sale can proceed.
Attribution does not mean that every cost located within a parcel should be deducted from that owner alone. A strategic road may cross one parcel but serve the whole development. A drainage basin may occupy one owner’s land while managing runoff from several parcels. The legal and valuation structure should recognise the purpose and beneficiaries of the infrastructure.
Conversely, a cost should not be deducted from one parcel merely because it appears within a wider appraisal. The valuer should identify whether the cost is necessary for that parcel, shared across the scheme, recoverable from another party or already reflected elsewhere.
Where several owners are involved, a collaboration or equalisation agreement can regulate cost sharing, land contributions, decision-making and the division of net sale proceeds. The chosen formula should reflect the project and be supported by independent legal, valuation and tax advice.
Questions to Ask About Attribution
Planning Policy
Planning Designations and Policy Boundaries Can Affect Each Parcel Differently
Planning policy is mapped and interpreted spatially. The fact that several parcels sit within the same ownership or locality does not mean they share the same planning position.
A settlement boundary may include one field and exclude the adjoining field. An allocation may cover part of a title but not the whole holding. Green Belt, safeguarded land, Local Green Space, employment protection or landscape policies can follow boundaries that do not match ownership lines.
Emerging Local Plan evidence may also distinguish between parcels. A HELAA or SHLAA can identify one site as suitable, available and achievable while rejecting or deferring nearby land because of access, landscape, infrastructure or deliverability concerns.
Neighbourhood plans can allocate land, define local gaps and identify community priorities at a fine-grained level. A parcel adjoining a settlement may therefore have a different policy context depending on the neighbourhood area, settlement hierarchy and wording of the relevant policies.
National considerations such as housing land supply, the Housing Delivery Test and the presumption in favour of sustainable development operate within the specific decision-making context. They do not erase site-specific harm or make every parcel acceptable.
Read our Planning Policy and Development Land guide for a broader explanation of how adopted and emerging policy affects development opportunities.
Parcel-Level Policy Checks
Location, Access and Form
The Parcel’s Relationship With the Settlement and Highway Network Is Unique
Location is more precise than a town, village or postcode. The way the individual parcel connects with built development, services and movement routes can materially affect the planning conclusion.
A parcel directly adjoining the continuous built edge may form a logical extension. Another parcel a short distance away may be separated by open land, a railway, a watercourse or a strong landscape feature that changes how development would be perceived.
Access must be tested against the parcel’s actual frontage and ownership. An existing gate is not automatically a suitable development access. Visibility, road width, gradients, junction spacing, pedestrian connections and the ability to accommodate improvement works all matter.
The landowner must control the necessary access or hold sufficient enforceable rights. Visibility splays, footways, drainage or widening may extend onto third-party land. A route shown on a plan can fail if the legal and physical position is not checked.
Shape and topography also influence capacity. A regular, level parcel can often accommodate roads and buildings more efficiently than narrow, fragmented or steep land. However, an irregular parcel may still be valuable where it completes a larger layout or provides essential infrastructure.
Read our guides to why location matters and access and highways for development land.
Settlement Relationship
Whether the land adjoins, completes or appears detached from the existing built form.
Services and Facilities
The practical walking, cycling and public transport relationship with everyday destinations.
Highway Frontage
The length, geometry, speed environment and control needed to create a safe junction.
Sustainable Connections
Whether safe pedestrian and cycle routes can be provided from the parcel to the settlement.
Shape and Width
Whether an efficient layout can be created after roads, buffers and other requirements are included.
Levels and Gradients
How topography affects access, drainage, accessibility, retaining structures and construction costs.
Technical and Environmental Evidence
Constraints Must Be Mapped Against the Actual Parcel
Environmental and technical constraints rarely follow simple ownership lines. Their location, extent and interaction with the proposed layout determine whether they can be avoided, mitigated or accommodated.
Flood Risk and Drainage
River, surface water, groundwater and drainage routes can affect only part of a parcel but require space for avoidance, storage and outfalls.
Ecology and Biodiversity
Habitats, ponds, hedgerows, protected species and biodiversity requirements influence buffers, timing and net developable area.
Landscape and Views
Prominence, settlement character, ridgelines, vegetation and the ability to create a durable edge vary between neighbouring parcels.
Heritage and Archaeology
The setting of a listed building, conservation area, monument or archaeological potential can affect one area more than another.
Ground Conditions
Contamination, mining, made ground, clay, peat or instability can generate remediation and foundation costs attributable to the parcel.
Utilities and Infrastructure
Sewers, pipelines, cables, pylons, easements and network capacity can constrain layout or require costly diversions and upgrades.
A mapped constraint should not automatically be applied to the whole parcel. The first task is to understand its precise extent and significance. Higher-risk land may be retained as open space, a habitat corridor can shape the layout and landscape buffers can establish a new settlement edge.
The reverse is also true. A broad map may not reveal local levels, drainage ditches, species use, buried services or contamination. Site inspection and proportionate technical evidence are needed before development capacity or value is assumed.
Constraints should be considered together rather than one at a time. A drainage basin, ecological buffer and landscape setback may compete for the same part of the parcel. A credible concept plan tests how all requirements fit within the land simultaneously.
Title and Legal Deliverability
Planning Potential Has Limited Value If the Parcel Cannot Be Delivered
Planning control and private legal rights are separate. A council can grant permission without resolving whether the landowner has the title, rights and possession needed to implement it.
The registered plan should be compared with the physical boundaries and proposed layout. General boundaries on a title plan may not establish the exact legal line. A narrow discrepancy can matter where visibility, road widening, drainage or building setbacks rely on the edge of the ownership.
Restrictive covenants can limit building or use. Easements and wayleaves can reserve rights for access, drainage or utilities. Public rights of way, tenancies, licences, options, mortgages, mineral interests and occupational arrangements can also influence timing and control.
An access route that appears physically suitable may be unavailable if the title grants only agricultural use or prevents improvement. Equally, a parcel may benefit from rights over adjoining land that materially improve its development prospects.
Legal issues do not always prevent development. Rights can sometimes be negotiated, covenants released or modified, tenancies managed and adjoining land assembled. The uncertainty, cost and timescale of those solutions must be reflected in the assessment and valuation.
Read our Title Plans, Boundaries and Development Land guide for further detail.
Parcel-Specific Legal Checks
Registered Ownership
Confirm every title, owner and charge affecting the proposed site.
Access Rights
Check use, improvement, visibility, maintenance and adoption rights.
Restrictive Covenants
Identify building, use, density or disposal restrictions and beneficiaries.
Easements and Wayleaves
Understand protected corridors, maintenance access and diversion provisions.
Possession and Occupation
Review tenancies, licences, grazing arrangements and vacant possession timing.
Third-Party Land
Identify ransom strips, assembly needs and works beyond the ownership.
Development Capacity
Gross Acreage Is Not the Same as Net Developable Area
The value of a parcel is often driven by what can actually be accommodated after all planning, design, infrastructure and environmental requirements are allowed for.
A ten-acre ownership does not necessarily provide ten acres of development land. Roads, junctions, drainage, open space, play areas, landscape buffers, ecology, retained trees, utility corridors and community infrastructure reduce the land available for homes or commercial floorspace.
Density cannot be selected in isolation. It should respond to the settlement, surrounding character, housing mix, access, landscape sensitivity and the amount of supporting infrastructure required. The same gross area can therefore support very different numbers of homes.
A concept plan is valuable because it tests whether all requirements fit together. It can reveal that a constraint materially reduces capacity, or that careful design allows a larger proportion of the parcel to be used than first assumed.
Capacity should be presented as a reasoned range until technical work and planning engagement provide greater certainty. A single optimistic number can overstate value and undermine negotiations if the assumed layout is not deliverable.
Gross Area May Need to Accommodate
Access, roads and movement routes
SuDS, flood storage and outfalls
Landscape structure and buffers
Habitats and biodiversity measures
Open space and play provision
Utilities and infrastructure
A credible valuation should use the net saleable or developable output supported by the parcel, not simply multiply the total acreage by a headline development-land rate.
Individual Valuation
Why Each Parcel Must Also Be Valued in Its Own Right
Development land valuation is an appraisal of a particular opportunity, not a universal rate attached to every acre in an area.
The starting point may be the existing use value of the land, whether agricultural, amenity, residential garden, commercial or another use. Where there is a credible but uncertain planning prospect, the market may recognise hope value. An allocation or planning permission can increase certainty, but the value still depends on what can be delivered.
A residual valuation estimates the value available for the land after deducting construction, infrastructure, professional fees, planning obligations, finance and an appropriate developer return from the completed development value. Every important assumption should relate to the parcel and proposed scheme.
Comparable transactions remain useful, but they require adjustment. A nearby sale may have had a different permission, affordable housing requirement, development density, access cost, contamination risk, completion structure or planning certainty.
Timing matters because a parcel capable of immediate development is not equivalent to land that may require several years of Local Plan promotion. Probability, expenditure, finance, market movement and the risk of no planning outcome affect the price a purchaser or promoter may be prepared to offer.
Read our guides on how land is valued in the UK and land value with planning permission.
Parcel-Specific Valuation Inputs
Achievable Use and Capacity
The number, type and value of homes or amount of commercial floorspace realistically supported.
Planning Certainty
Existing use, hope value, allocation, outline permission, detailed permission and condition status.
Infrastructure and Abnormal Costs
Access, utilities, drainage, remediation, retaining works and parcel-specific mitigation.
Planning Obligations
Affordable housing, Section 106 requirements, CIL and other contributions attributable to the scheme.
Timing and Risk
Promotion period, survey programme, infrastructure dependencies and probability of completion.
Transaction Structure
Immediate sale, conditional contract, option, promotion agreement, overage or collaboration arrangements.
Existing Use Value
The value of the parcel for its current lawful use, reflecting its own quality, access, occupation and market.
Hope or Strategic Value
The additional amount the market may pay for a credible but uncertain prospect of future development.
Permission-Based Value
The residual value supported by the actual permission, capacity, obligations, conditions and costs.
Independent and Combined Opportunities
Assess the Parcel Alone and as Part of Any Wider Land Assembly
Some parcels can support an independent development. Others have their greatest importance because they connect, service or complete a larger scheme.
Independent Parcel Assessment
Tests whether the land has its own access, policy route, development capacity, drainage solution, utility connections and marketable scheme.
This protects the owner from unnecessarily assuming that adjoining land must be included and identifies whether a smaller or alternative use could proceed independently.
It also establishes a baseline for negotiation if a neighbouring developer seeks to include the parcel in a larger project.
Combined Site Assessment
Tests whether adjoining land creates a better access, more coherent settlement edge, shared infrastructure, improved layout or sufficient scale to support facilities.
It should identify what each parcel contributes and which costs or land requirements are shared across the wider development.
Where collaboration is needed, the owners should agree decision-making, promotion, cost allocation, valuation and division of proceeds before the project becomes advanced.
A small parcel can be strategically important if it provides the only highway access, drainage outfall or connection between development areas. A larger parcel can have limited independent value if it is landlocked or cannot support a complete layout.
Strategic importance should be assessed realistically. The existence of a dependency does not automatically determine a ransom payment, and an alternative route may exist. Independent legal and valuation advice is important where one parcel controls infrastructure needed by another.
Our Multiple Landowners and Development Land guide explains collaboration and equalisation considerations in greater detail.
A Proportionate Process
How an Individual Parcel Assessment Should Be Undertaken
The work should become more detailed as the opportunity progresses. Landowners do not normally need every technical report before an initial planning and valuation review.
Define the Parcel
Identify the land, titles, ownership, approximate area, physical boundaries and any adjoining land included in the assessment.
Review Policy and Context
Check the planning authority, Local Plan, neighbourhood plan, allocations, settlement relationship and emerging opportunities.
Identify Constraints and Rights
Review access, flooding, ecology, landscape, heritage, utilities, ground conditions, title restrictions and third-party dependencies.
Test Capacity and Options
Consider alternative uses, a realistic net developable area, concept layouts and whether the parcel works alone or within a wider site.
Assess Costs and Value
Identify parcel-specific and shared costs, planning certainty, timing, comparable evidence and the appropriate valuation approach.
Set the Next Strategy
Decide whether to monitor, submit through a Call for Sites, promote through a Local Plan, prepare an application, assemble land or obtain further evidence.
The assessment should record what is known, what is assumed and what remains uncertain. This helps prevent a provisional planning opportunity from being presented as guaranteed permission or a high-level valuation from being mistaken for a formal market valuation.
Further work should be proportionate to the decision being made. An early site review may be enough to decide whether promotion is worthwhile. A land sale, planning application or collaboration agreement may require survey, legal, valuation and tax advice from suitably qualified professionals.
The assessment should also be updated. Planning policy, survey evidence, infrastructure, ownership and market conditions can change. A conclusion reached several years ago may no longer reflect the parcel’s current position.
Useful Information for the First Review
Our Individual Review
How Value My Land Reviews a Parcel in Its Own Right
We begin with the specific land rather than applying a generic conclusion based on its current use, county, acreage or a neighbouring scheme.
We identify the relevant planning authority, adopted and emerging policy, settlement relationship, live plan-making opportunities and known planning history. We then review the parcel’s access, shape, levels, flood risk, environmental designations, infrastructure and visible physical constraints.
We consider title and boundary information where available, including whether the apparent development route depends on adjoining land or third-party rights. We also assess whether the parcel has an independent opportunity or could contribute to a larger development area.
The initial review is intended to identify the principal opportunities, risks and next steps. It is not a substitute for a formal planning opinion, legal report, technical survey or Red Book valuation where those are required, but it provides a focused basis for deciding whether further work is justified.
Where a suitable promotion opportunity is agreed, Value My Land can fund and manage the agreed planning and technical process at its own cost and risk under the promotion agreement. Our agreed fee is dealt with from the successful sale proceeds in accordance with the agreement.
The Review Can Help Clarify
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Related Guides
These guides explain the planning, valuation, technical and ownership subjects that should inform an individual parcel assessment without duplicating this page’s central purpose.
Is My Land Suitable for Development?
Review the planning, location, access, environmental and deliverability factors that influence whether land may support development.
Click hereHow Is Land Valued in the UK?
Understand the principal valuation approaches and why the correct method depends on the land, assumed use and evidence available.
Click hereLand Value With Planning Permission
Learn how an implementable permission, development capacity, obligations, costs and market evidence can influence value.
Click hereWhy Location Matters
See how settlement relationships, services, transport, neighbouring uses and the surrounding planning context affect a parcel.
Click herePlanning Policy and Development Land
Understand how national policy, Local Plans, neighbourhood plans, allocations and boundaries can affect individual land.
Click hereAccess and Highways for Development Land
Find out why frontage, visibility, control, pedestrian links and network effects must be assessed for the actual parcel.
Click hereTitle Plans, Boundaries and Development Land
Learn why registered ownership, physical boundaries, access rights and third-party interests must be checked separately.
Click hereMultiple Landowners and Development Land
Understand land assembly, collaboration, equalisation and how different parcels can contribute differently to a wider scheme.
Click hereTopographical Surveys for Development Land
See how accurate levels, features and boundaries help establish the net developable area and a credible layout.
Click hereFrequently Asked Questions About Individual Land Parcel Assessments
Why must every parcel of land be assessed individually?
Development potential and value arise from the particular planning, physical, legal, environmental and commercial characteristics of the parcel. Two pieces of land may be close together and similar in size but differ in access, policy status, levels, ownership, flood risk, infrastructure costs or relationship with the settlement.
An individual assessment identifies the opportunities, constraints and costs attributable to the actual land rather than assuming that area-wide averages or a neighbouring permission apply automatically.
Can two adjoining fields have different development values?
Yes. One field may control the only safe access, lie within a settlement boundary or contain the main developable plateau. The adjoining field may be affected by flooding, a restrictive covenant, difficult levels or infrastructure that reduces its usable area.
They may also have different values when assessed separately and a different combined value if they form one coherent development site.
Does a planning permission next door mean my land can also be developed?
No. A neighbouring permission is relevant evidence but not a guarantee. The approved land may have a different policy position, access arrangement, landscape relationship, drainage solution, ownership structure or planning history.
The reasons why the neighbouring proposal was acceptable must be compared with the circumstances of your parcel.
Can land be valued using a simple price per acre?
A rate per acre can sometimes provide broad market context, but it is not a reliable substitute for a parcel-specific valuation. Development land value depends on the net developable area, achievable use and capacity, planning certainty, infrastructure, obligations, abnormal costs and timing.
A parcel with a high gross acreage can have a lower value than a smaller parcel if much of it cannot be developed or if it carries substantial costs.
What are site-attributable considerations?
They are matters that can reasonably be linked to the parcel and that affect its planning prospects, development capacity, delivery risk or value. They include on-site constraints, boundary conditions, legal rights, access, utility apparatus and costs generated by developing that land.
Some considerations are direct, while others arise because the parcel depends on off-site works, adjoining ownerships or wider infrastructure.
Is a Land Registry title the same as a development parcel?
Not necessarily. One title may contain several fields or areas with materially different characteristics. A proposed development site may also combine all or part of several registered titles.
The assessment should follow the land actually being considered for development while checking the title boundaries and rights that support or constrain it.
Why is the net developable area important?
The gross ownership area includes all land within the parcel, but roads, drainage, landscape buffers, ecology, open space, utilities, retained buildings and other constraints can reduce the area available for buildings.
Valuation and capacity should therefore be based on a credible layout and net developable area rather than total acreage alone.
Can an access strip be more valuable than a larger field?
Potentially. A small strip that controls the only practical access to a larger development area may have strategic importance beyond its acreage. Its value depends on legal rights, alternative access options, planning requirements and the commercial structure of the wider scheme.
Specialist legal and valuation advice is needed before assuming either a nominal agricultural value or an excessive ransom value.
How do boundaries affect development potential?
Boundaries determine frontage, visibility, access control, relationships with neighbours and whether important trees, hedgerows, ditches or utility apparatus fall within the land. A mapped title line may not match the physical feature on the ground.
Accurate boundary and topographical information can prevent a layout from relying on land or rights that the owner does not control.
What if my parcel only works with adjoining land?
The parcel should still be assessed in its own right, but the review should also test the combined opportunity. Some land may provide access, drainage, open space or housing capacity that allows a wider scheme to function.
Where several owners are involved, collaboration, cost sharing, decision-making and the division of proceeds should be documented before substantial promotion expenditure is incurred.
Do planning designations apply uniformly across a parcel?
Not always. A settlement boundary, allocation, flood zone, heritage setting, ecological designation or landscape constraint may affect only part of the land. The precise spatial relationship can materially change the developable area and planning strategy.
The assessment should use current mapping and site evidence rather than treating the entire parcel as having one undifferentiated status.
How can abnormal costs attributable to a parcel affect value?
Costs such as access works, utility diversions, remediation, retaining structures, drainage, habitat mitigation and off-site infrastructure reduce the amount a development can pay for the land. The relevant question is whether the cost is caused by, required for or fairly allocated to that parcel.
A residual valuation should identify those costs transparently and avoid applying deductions that belong to other land or to a wider scheme without justification.
Can a parcel’s development prospects change over time?
Yes. Local Plans, settlement strategies, housing requirements, infrastructure, market demand and technical evidence can change. A parcel that is not currently supported may become relevant during a plan review, while new evidence can also reveal additional constraints.
An assessment is therefore a reasoned view at a particular date and should be revisited when material circumstances change.
What documents help with an individual parcel assessment?
Useful information includes a title plan, site plan, postcode or map pin, acreage, current use, access details, tenancy information, previous planning decisions and any technical reports. Photographs and notes about services, boundaries or known constraints can also help.
A complete planning or survey package is not required for an initial review. The first task is to identify the parcel accurately and establish which matters justify further investigation.
How does Value My Land assess an individual parcel?
We review the parcel’s location, planning authority, adopted and emerging policy, settlement relationship, access, visible constraints, title information and likely development route. We also consider whether it has an independent opportunity or forms part of a wider land assembly.
Where further work appears worthwhile, we explain the principal uncertainties, evidence likely to be needed and how those factors may influence development capacity and value.
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