The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Are you baffled by planning and development? Our new Your Questions Answered series is here to cut through the complexity. Ask us anything - we’ll give you a straight answer in an upcoming article. 📩 strategiclandgroup.co.uk/insights/your-questions-answered 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 01/04/2026We’re pleased to have completed the sale of a 10-acre site in Kirton in Lindsey to Newett Homes. Following two successful appeals for refusals against officer advice, the scheme will deliver 74 much-needed homes alongside enhanced access to green space. 010
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 04/12/2025187,500 acres of farmland was marketed for sale across England and Wales in 2024. With recent policy changes impacting the countryside and farming families, it’s a good time to review strategic land decisions. Our MD in Agronomist & Arable Farmer 👇 aaf.mydigitalpublication.co.uk/december-202... 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Getting planning permission is difficult, expensive, time consuming, risky - and stressful. That’s why so many landowners choose to work with us. Get in touch today for a free, no obligation consultation about your land. 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Our Managing Director, @pmsmith.bsky.social, will be attending the BIAC Rural Planning Conference next week, delivering a talk on Planning and Nature in flux; policies and possibilities. Find out more about the event, the line up and how to attend - www.strategiclandgroup.co.uk/insights/slg... 010
Reposted by The Strategic Land GroupPaul Smith @pmsmith.bsky.social · 30/05/2025We’re being asked to design new homes around puddles - which is slowing housing delivery, impairing design quality and doing absolutely nothing for flood risk. I explained why - and how the government can easily fix it - for Building magazine. www.building.co.uk/comment/why-... 022
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Read the full piece here: www.insidermedia.com/news/midland... Can we help you with your site? 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Find out how the “standard method” is used to decide how many new homes to build in our latest Essential Guide. You can download a table with the housing target for every council in England too! www.strategiclandgroup.co.uk/insights/how...strategiclandgroup.co.ukHow are housing targets calculated? - Strategic Land GroupThe government has introduced a new way for calculating housing targets. This post explains how it works, what it means for home building and includes a downloadable table with the new housing targets... 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 18/02/2025🚨 WE'RE HIRING! 🚨 We're looking for a Land Researcher to join our team and help us find potential development sites across the country. Find our more - including how to apply - here: www.strategiclandgroup.co.uk/insights/wer...strategiclandgroup.co.ukWe're hiring! - Strategic Land GroupWe're looking for a Land Researcher to join our team. 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Fantasy Football can teach us how to make better choices about where to build new homes. Our MD, @pmsmith.bsky.social, explained how in a paper for think tank @adamsmith.org www.strategiclandgroup.co.uk/insights/cou...strategiclandgroup.co.ukCould Fantasy Football reform England's planning system? - Strategic Land GroupIn a report for the Adam Smith Institute, a think tank, our managing director explores how lessons from Fantasy Football can improve the way we select sites for development. 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 10/01/2025We're delighted to have agreed to work with the owners of a 22 acre site in the Staffordshire village of Woodseaves. We'll be promoting the land for housing development through the council's emerging local plan. You can find out more here: www.strategiclandgroup.co.uk/insights/slg...strategiclandgroup.co.ukSLG to promote new site in sought-after Staffordshire Village - Strategic Land GroupWe will be working with the owners of a site in Woodseaves to promote it for new housing development in Stafford's emerging local plan. 010
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Did you know we deliver care homes too? We’ll take the planning risk and offer landowners a guaranteed price if we succeed. If you know of a site that might be suitable, we’d love to hear from you. 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 03/01/2025We’re bound to say we’re good so don’t listen to us - listen to the people we work with. Do you know of a site we could help with? Get in touch: www.strategiclandgroup.co.uk/contact 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 01/11/2024North East Derbyshire council are carrying out a Call for Sites, asking landowners to send details of potential development sites. Find out more - and how you can maximise the chance of your site being chosen for development - in our latest blog post. www.strategiclandgroup.co.uk/insights/nor...strategiclandgroup.co.ukNorth East Derbyshire Call for Sites process - Strategic Land GroupNorth East Derbyshire council are asking landowners to send them details of potential development sites - and it could help you to secure planning permission. 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 31/10/2024The local plan process can seem complicated, confusing and full of jargon - but it’s actually fairly simple. And it can be a great way to have your land earmarked for development. 🏡 We explain how it works in our latest Essential Guide. Read it here: www.strategiclandgroup.co.uk/insights/how...strategiclandgroup.co.ukHow councils prepare a local plan - Strategic Land GroupThe local plan process can seem complicated, confusing and full of jargon - but it's really quite straightforward. 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 23/10/2024🏡 New Site Secured! 🏡 We’ll be working with the owners of a 9.6-acre site in Morton-on-Swale, an attractive village in North Yorkshire, to promote the site through the council’s new local plan for housing development. Get in touch if you think we could help you! 011
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 23/08/2024The planning system is complex and expensive to navigate, which is why our landowner partners value our knowledge and expertise. We help them secure planning permission on their land at our cost and risk - if we don’t succeed, it costs them nothing. Find out more: www.strategiclandgroup.co.uk 021
The Strategic Land Group @strategiclandgroup.bsky.social · 21/08/2024Read our summary of four key planning reforms being proposed by the government that could help you secure planning permission for new homes. 🏡 www.strategiclandgroup.co.uk/insights/4-k...strategiclandgroup.co.uk4 key planning reforms proposed by Labour to deliver more homes - Strategic Land GroupThe new government is changing the planning system to allow more homes to be built. This post summarises the most significant of those reforms, and explains how they could help you secure planning per... 131
Reposted by The Strategic Land GroupPaul Smith @pmsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2024In a great piece for Works in Progress, Samuel Watling has highlighted how important location and economics are for the success of New Towns. (🔗 at the end) We’ve known that for a very long time and it got me thinking about King Edward I learning the same lesson. 🧵(do they work here?) 142