Strategic Development Land is a group of experienced professionals focused on creating new land development opportunities. We are actively acquiring land as well as working alongside landowners and developers to maximise the value of land utilising our design, engineering, planning and commercial expertise.

Promoting the use of land for housing is at the core of our business and our team has secured many planning permissions for residential development in our operating area. Our excellent local knowledge is second to none and we have a strong track record of working together with local authorities, communities, businesses, individual land owners and housing developers to maximise the value of development opportunities for all stakeholders. 

We are selective about the projects that we take on and the people we work with, targeting projects where we can add significant value and where we believe success for all parties is attainable.  

The majority of our team have a background in house building and we feel this gives us a key advantage over others involved in the land development sector. We have first hand understanding of the important considerations for developers when assessing the attractiveness and value of land and as such, we can ensure that the schemes we are involved with are designed with the end developer in mind. 

There are a wide range of technical and legal matters which affect land value and the viability of a development scheme. Our team has extensive experience in all the technical and planning matters which impact on the feasibility and commercial success of a scheme and we take a positive and practical approach to problem solving.  

Our core business values are performance, integrity, sustainability, reciprocity and humility. We have a fundamental belief that being fair and honest in all that we do, and with all those that we work with, will bring long term commercial success. 

Acquisition

We have a pool of private capital to invest and a track record of purchasing the freehold interest in land to allow property owners to achieve an expeditious sale. Whether they be brownfield, private residential or greenfield sites, we are happy to consider straightforward acquisitions of various sites across the country. Our management team continue to run a Housing Developer in the Midlands and so we also acquire sites to develop directly. 

Promotion agreement

In a promotion agreement, Strategic Development Land will enter into an agreement with the landowner and promote the land through the planning process. We can pay all the costs of a first-rate professional team and commit time to design a high quality development scheme to optimise the outcome of a planning application. On receipt of planning approval, we then work alongside the landowners to agree a sale strategy.

MASTER PLANNING & Infrastructure

We have extensive experience in creating well designed master plans, intelligent infrastructure design and cost effective engineering solutions to help optimise the value of land. We also utilise the skills and expertise of a group of longstanding consultants who work with us many schemes. 

Option agreement

An Option Agreement is often our preferred route when structuring a legal agreement with a Land Owner as we find it to be the most transparent and straightforward method of agreement. 

Under an Option Agreement, a land owner typically gives us the right to buy the land, either at a fixed price or by reference to a formula (such as a percentage of market value). We then take on various obligations and costs associated with achieving a planning permission before choosing to exercise our right to buy the land.

jOINT VENTURES

Where a landowner or developer wants to have more involvement in the promotion and planning elements of land development a joint venture can be a successful arrangement.

Here, Strategic Development Land would partner with other parties and pool resources to promote a new development scheme. In a joint venture, each of the participants are responsible for an element of the costs, workload and resulting profits. The venture is its own entity, separate and apart from each of the participants' other business interests.