“The UK is the second most densely populated country in Europe and has a fast rising migrant population, over the last 30 years, the demand for new homes has increased by 30% but over the same period house-building rates have dropped by over 50%.”
Source: www.statistics.gov.uk
1. Primary Evaluation
Selecting the right land for sale – the first part of our primary evaluation is the land itself. This is followed by a detailed inspection of the legal, regulatory and environmental aspects, factors we consider:
Primary factors:
- Regional development agency plans
- Future local authority framework
- Neighbouring planning application history
Other factors:
- Planning restrictions/Acts in force/land classification
- Title information
- Land classification/future
- Land uses/historical
- Transport infrastructure nearby/future schemes
- Public paths/byways
- Current/future access
- Sanitation/drainage
- Waste/landfill site
- Conservation area/outstanding natural beauty
- Environmental/hazardous substance consents
- Hedgerow/tree preservation orders
- Water, running or standing
- Contaminated land/environmental and pollution notices
- Floodplain/landslip/subsidence hazard
- History of compulsory purchase
“UK Land Safer than Houses-While property prices in the UK and across the globe have dropped for much of 2008, agricultural land in the UK has been a good investment. According to research from Savills, agricultural land has increased in value for all of 2008 by 21.5 percent.”
Source: Ian Bailey Head of Rural research at Savills January 2009
Once we are satisfied with our initial findings, we move to the next stage of the process which is the area evaluation.
