Lestrade Ground · Land acquisition

Should we bid on this land?

Ground brings together public data, site visits, your past projects and input from every department, and gives you one score and a clear recommendation on whether to bid.

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Lestrade Ground: the Hollow Lane appraisal, scoring 74 out of 100 (amber, proceed with conditions), with a map of amenities within a mile
What goes into the score

Everything you know about a site, in one score.

Public data Planning history, flood risk, ground conditions, local amenities and news about the area.
Site visits Photos, voice notes and observations from the people who’ve walked the land.
Your track record Build costs, sales values and lessons from your past developments.
Every department Land, technical, commercial and sales each add their view to the same appraisal.
Lestrade score of 74, amber, with department input from land, planning, technical and commercial, and sales and production still to come
The Lestrade score

A recommendation you can check.

Ground combines all of this into a score out of 100 and a red, amber or green rating, weighted to how your business buys land. Every point links back to where it came from.

GreenBid
AmberBid with conditions
RedDon’t bid
Ground pipeline map with four sites in appraisal: Brook Farm ready for committee, Hollow Lane awaiting sales input, Mill Road East in technical review and Station Yard flagged for flood risk
Your pipeline

Every site on one map.

See which sites are in appraisal, waiting for input or ready for committee. Nearby schools, stations and GP surgeries are shown for each site.

Ground app on a phone recording a voice note on a site visit at Hollow Lane, added to the appraisal with the score moving from 76 to 74
Site visits

Site visits, recorded.

Take photos, record voice notes and mark locations on your phone. Ground transcribes them, adds them to the appraisal and updates the score.

PhotosVoice notesLocationNotes
Ask Lestrade drafting a land committee brief on Hollow Lane after reading six department inputs, comparing nine past sites and checking the Local Plan
Land committee

Committee reports, drafted for you.

Ask Lestrade for a report on any site. It draws on department input, site visit notes, past projects and the local plan, and sets out the recommendation, the risks and the source for each point. You edit it, then send it.

Bought the land? Keep going.

Ground hands straight over to the rest of Lestrade.

Site · Workforce complianceIs everyone cleared to work?Explore Site →
Dwell · Sales and aftercareAre our buyers looked after?Explore Dwell →

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