LandTech

09/10/2026

GDV tells you what a scheme is worth on completion.

Yield tells you what it's worth to hold.

We're seeing more sites get greenlit on a strong GDV number when the yield case underneath it is shaky - and that's a different kind of risk to be carrying into a slower market.

Which number carries more weight in your go/no-go call, and has that shifted for you in the last year?

06/10/2026

A site looked clean - single title, no restrictive covenants, no history of refusals. Everything a first-pass check would want to see.

Then someone actually walked the boundary and found a two-metre grass verge between the site and the adopted highway that nobody owned on paper.

A ransom strip, sitting in the one place nobody thought to check - and the whole scheme stalled for months because of it.

This is exactly the kind of thing that doesn't show up on a first-pass site check, and exactly what our Site Feasibility Checklist is built to catch before you're six weeks into due diligence.

Download yours for free here -

Stop missing hidden site risks. Use LandTech’s Site Feasibility Checklist to audit planning policy, BNG baselines, and technical constraints in seconds, not hours.

05/10/2026

Are you re-running appraisals on sites you've already dismissed?

Under the new NPPF, you might need to be.

National Decision-Making Policies now override local plan policy the moment the two conflict, with effect straight away, not once your local authority gets round to reviewing its plan. That means the gap between what your local plan says and what will actually secure consent has just widened.

The full breakdown, including a 5-step site audit checklist, is in our free NPPF Playbook -

Live masterclass on the August 2026 NPPF for land and development teams. Learn the 5 policy shifts to audit, plus a live Impact Assessment on a real site.

02/10/2026

Local Government Reorganisation isn't just a Lancashire story.; it's reshaping how planning decisions get made across large parts of England, and Lancashire is one of the first places to go through it at this scale.

It's worth understanding what happened there, because it's a fair preview of what other regions are about to go through -

How LandTech's Give My View helped Cratus Group gather 13,000+ resident voices on Lancashire's local government reorganisation, the biggest shake-up in 50 years.

30/09/2026

How many logins does it take you to properly assess a site right now?

GIS tool, a CRM, maybe a personal ChatGPT subscription you're only half-expensing because you can't fully justify it on the invoice.

Our AI Assistant doesn't add a ninth tab. It's built directly into the platform you already use, no separate subscription, no token meter to keep an eye on, no copying your work between windows. Every document it generates is saved permanently against the site it belongs to, so it's still there next week, not buried in an old chat thread you can't find.

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29/09/2026

The planning application fee is the smallest number on the invoice, and almost nobody budgets for that properly until it's too late.

Between planning consultants, surveys, legal fees, and the appeals process if things don't go your way first time, the real cost of getting planning permission can be several times the fee itself.

We've broken down what actually goes into that total, and where the biggest surprises tend to hide -

How much does planning permission cost? A full breakdown of application fees, professional costs and the charges developers need to budget for.

28/09/2026

This is one we get asked constantly at the moment: can AI actually speed up due diligence, or is it just hype riding on the back of every other "AI-powered" product launch this year?

It’s a genuinely mixed answer! We wrote up where it helps, where it doesn't, and what to watch for either way.

Planning due diligence can eat weeks before you've even drafted an application. Here's where AI genuinely speeds it up, and where it still can't.

25/09/2026

A ballpark figure for planning permission costs is a dangerous thing to build an appraisal on.

Get it wrong and it's not just an awkward conversation - it's the difference between a site that stacks up, and one that quietly doesn't once the real costs land.

Full breakdown here:

How much does planning permission cost? A full breakdown of application fees, professional costs and the charges developers need to budget for.

24/09/2026

Before you let any AI tool near your pipeline, three questions worth asking it directly:

Can you show me exactly where that came from?

What happens when you don't actually know the answer?

Who's accountable if you're wrong?

Most tools fall over on at least one of these. We wrote up what good AI in proptech actually looks like when it's built properly -

Every proptech tool claims to be "AI-powered" now. Here's what separates genuinely useful AI from the hype, and what to check before you trust it.

23/09/2026

What's actually in The NPPF Playbook?

- Where NDMPs now take precedence over local plans, and the one exception that still holds
- The five NPPF shifts most likely to affect sites already in your pipeline
- A practical approach to re-testing sites against the final August 2026 policy, not the December 2025 draft
- What all of this means day-to-day for land and development teams

If you're assessing sites this month, it's worth ten minutes of your time.

Download here:

Live masterclass on the August 2026 NPPF for land and development teams. Learn the 5 policy shifts to audit, plus a live Impact Assessment on a real site.