Finding the site was never meant
to be the hardest part.
Small developers built four in ten new homes in the 1980s; today it is fewer than one in ten, and planning is the barrier most cite. I built Lockbury to read the constraint layers and the land signals so the viable sites find you.
The site finds you.
Appraised, constrained, evidenced.
Every plot and building below has been read against the planning layers before you ever see it — Article 4, conservation, flood, listing — with a residual land value you can interrogate line by line. The work you do in the first hour of every appraisal, already done.
What it is
A private intelligence platform. Land and conversion opportunities scored nightly, constraints applied before you ask, RLV and GDV with every assumption editable and sourced.
What it is not
Not a land portal. Not an agent. Lockbury takes no fee on your acquisition and lists nothing — it reads the public record so your first look at a site is already an informed one.
Named sources. At the figure, every time.
of new homes come from SME developers today — from around four in ten in the 1980s
of small builders cite the planning system as their top barrier to building
every plot rescored as planning data and comparables move
Choose a strategy. See where it works.
Every property below has been scored against the strategy you pick, with the planning constraints already applied. Nothing to search. Nothing to filter.
Every figure in the panel carries the dataset it came from, at the figure. Nothing here is estimated without saying so.
Woodhouse Street, LS6
Where the constraint picture is mixed, a pre-app materially changes certainty before you commit. Clarence drafts the questions worth asking.
Where plot width allows, a second unit moves the residual materially. Subject to the same constraint layers shown above.
Drafted from the public record. Nothing in it I could not evidence.
Dear Owner,
I am writing about vacant plot, rear garden land on Woodhouse Street. My client is looking to acquire in this specific area and is in a position to proceed without a chain.
If a sale is something you would consider, now or later in the year, I would welcome a conversation with no obligation and no fee to you. If it is not, please accept my apologies for the intrusion and I will not write again.
Yours faithfully,
Tamsin
Lockbury
Create your account to post it. Tamsin handles print, postage and response tracking, and tells you when it lands. Two minutes to set your mandate.
You did not run a land search.
That is the point.
Land searching is hours of portal-sifting followed by an afternoon of constraint-checking, per site, most of which die on the first planning layer. Lockbury applies the layers first, so the sites that reach you are the ones still standing. The map above is one postcode of that, running in your browser right now.
Alistair runs the build.
Clarence reads the planning.
“A build goes wrong quietly, then suddenly. I listen for the quiet part.”
Alistair — The Clerk of Works
- Residual land value and GDV with every assumption editable
- Build cost lines from regional defaults you can overwrite
- Programme risk flagged early — the quiet part, heard
- From appraisal through planning to completion, one thread
Your next site, found.
Starting with your area.
Tell Alistair where you build and at what scale, and your Area Intelligence Report is prepared inside the consultation — the land signals, the constraint picture, and the RLV evidence for what is live now.
Pre-launch — I'll write to you personally the moment we're live.