Your Land Team Is Spending Days on Research That Should Take Hours

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Posted on 18 February 2026

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Site appraisal for a large development starts long before anyone visits the land. Your acquisition team needs to understand flood zones, conservation boundaries, brownfield status, adjacent vacancies, and planning history — all before the first meeting with the landowner.

That desktop research phase typically takes days per site. It doesn't have to.

The Site Assembly Challenge

For regional developers and housebuilders, the land acquisition process is a funnel. Dozens of potential sites go in at the top. Due diligence, viability assessments, and planning analysis narrow them down to the handful worth pursuing.

The bottleneck isn't at the end of the funnel — it's at the beginning. Initial site screening requires pulling data from multiple government sources: brownfield registers, flood maps, conservation area designations, AONB boundaries, and local planning portals. Each source has its own interface. None of them talk to each other.

Your land team is spending expensive time on mechanical data gathering instead of the strategic analysis that actually requires their expertise.

Every Data Layer on One Map

LandAttic brings the critical datasets together on a single interactive map, purpose-built for the kind of spatial analysis that land acquisition requires.

56,655 brownfield sites visible in one click. The government's brownfield register data, overlaid directly on the map. With brownfield-first planning policy driving approvals, these sites get priority — and LandAttic shows you which empty properties sit on or adjacent to them.

Flood risk mapped in real time. The Environment Agency's flood data for rivers and surface water, plus 228 live flood alerts, all visible as a map layer. No more switching to the Environment Agency portal mid-assessment. Your team can see flood zones alongside property vacancies and brownfield designations simultaneously.

Conservation areas and AONB boundaries drawn on the map. 10,514 conservation areas and 34 AONB designations displayed as boundaries. For sites near the edge of a designation, the visual map makes it immediately obvious whether a property falls inside or outside.

Planning constraints checked per property. Click any of the 15,000+ tracked empty properties and see Listed Building status, Article 4 Directions, Tree Preservation Orders, and nearby planning applications — all sourced from planning.data.gov.uk.

Screen More Sites in Less Time

The value for a large developer isn't in finding one property — it's in screening many sites quickly to identify the few worth detailed appraisal. LandAttic compresses the initial desktop research phase from days to hours.

Search a target area. Enable all overlays. Immediately see which sites have brownfield status, which sit in flood zones, and which fall within conservation boundaries. The sites that survive this visual screening are the ones your team takes forward.

Built for Professional Land Teams

At £30/month for Essential+, LandAttic costs less than a single hour of a land manager's time. For teams evaluating multiple sites per month, the time savings compound rapidly.

See brownfield sites, flood zones, conservation areas, and 15,000+ empty properties — all on one map. landattic.com

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