Guides
Planning guides for landowners and developers
How the English planning system actually treats land: the policy tests, the plan-making stages, and the evidence that decides outcomes. Written from published national policy, with no promises about results.
Can I get planning permission on my land?
How to work out whether your land could get planning permission in England: the policy tests, constraints, Local Plan position and the evidence a decision-maker actually looks at.
9 min read
How to get land allocated in a Local Plan
The plan-making stages, when to submit land through a Call for Sites, what a HELAA assessment looks for, and how to give a site the best chance of allocation.
8 min read
What is Grey Belt land?
The NPPF definition of Grey Belt land, the Green Belt purposes it turns on, the golden rules for development, and how to assess whether land might qualify.
7 min read
Building on Green Belt land
How Green Belt policy works in England: the five purposes, inappropriate development, the exceptions, very special circumstances and Green Belt release through plan-making.
8 min read
Five-year housing land supply explained
What a five-year housing land supply is, how the Housing Delivery Test works, what the tilted balance means, and why both matter to landowners promoting sites.
7 min read
Strategic land promotion explained
How strategic land promotion works for UK landowners: promotion agreements versus options, who pays the costs, typical timescales and the risks to weigh up.
7 min read
NPPF 2026: what changed and what it means for land
A plain-English summary of the National Planning Policy Framework published in August 2026: the new policy-code structure, the S3 presumption, Green Belt and grey belt policy, the Golden Rules and the station density tests.
11 min read
NPPF 2026 policy codes: where the old paragraphs went
A lookup for the August 2026 NPPF policy-code structure: what each chapter letter means, which policy replaced the familiar paragraph references, and how to cite the Framework correctly.
8 min read
The Golden Rules under NPPF 2026 (policy GB8)
What policy GB8 of the August 2026 NPPF requires on Green Belt and grey belt land: affordable housing at 15 percentage points above the applicable requirement, infrastructure improvements and accessible green space.
8 min read
Well-connected stations and density under NPPF 2026
How the August 2026 NPPF treats land near stations: the reasonable walking distance, the minimum density expectations in policy L3, the well-connected test, and what it means for land selection.
9 min read
This assessment is an automated planning intelligence report based on available public data. It does not constitute planning, legal, valuation or other professional advice and does not guarantee that planning permission will be granted.