Land Acquisition & Planning

Taylor Woodrow is widely recognised as having one of the strongest land banks within the industry. This is a testament to the skill and expertise of the Strategic Developments department; employing more than 40 dedicated staff comprising of land buyers, planners and project managers, Strategic Developments is tasked with identification, acquisition and promotion of land to feed through to our regional businesses to build out.

The biggest hurdle to negotiate when promoting a development site is the planning system. Depending on the sites location and individual attributes it can take any ware from 6 months to 10 years to achieve a planning consent for residential development. Taylor Woodrow Strategic Developments team have one on the best records for obtaining planning consent in the industry.

Taylor Woodrow’s experts in land purchase utilise all types of legal agreements to couple with landowners and partners:

• Freehold Purchase (with and without uplift)
• Option Agreements
• Conditional Contracts
• Collaboration Agreements
• Joint Venture Agreements
• Promotional Agreements

Typically Strategic Developments deal with complicated sites including:

• Sustainable Urban Extensions
• Complex land assembly
• Sites with a negative planning history
• Sites with potential for a change of use

Although most of the sites Strategic Developments deal with are large (10ac +) we are also deal with smaller sites (1.0ac). We have dedicated technical experts who advise on all manor of technical issues: contaminated land, site remediation, engineering, affordable housing, ecohomes, renewable technologies and product development.

It’s through our holistic approach to land and planning that we add an enormous amount of value to all of our development sites; because we have an enormous wealth of experience and expertise in-house we can offer landowners the best chance of securing a planning permission for the highest value development scheme in the shortest time possible.