# Prepare your landfor sale.

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Rivermark helps owners prepare land for sale or a developer approach.

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## How we help.

We bring together site plans, ownership information and available planning and environmental records before a sale or developer approach. We identify missing information for your advisers and the types of buyer or promoter to consider.

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## What matters at the property.

-   Registered title, site boundary, occupation and any third-party rights identified by the owner's solicitor.
-   Vehicular and pedestrian access, frontage and the route to an adopted highway.
-   Planning history, local-plan status, neighbouring uses and previous studies.
-   Flood zones, surface-water indications, drainage and watercourse constraints.
-   Utilities, easements, capacity questions and abnormal infrastructure.
-   Habitats, trees, ecology and the effect of biodiversity net gain where the statutory framework applies.
-   Sale, option, promotion or joint-venture route and the owner's timing.

### What Rivermark checks

-   A plan tied to the owner's title documents.
-   Planning history and current policy links.
-   Flood, ecology, utilities and access questions for the professional team.
-   Studies already held and their dates.
-   Suitable buyers or promoters and the information they will need.

### More on the property requirements

Development land becomes harder to assess when the planning story runs ahead of title, access, drainage, utilities and ecology. Rivermark starts with the site boundary and the documents the owner can actually supply.

For land in England, the first screen can include current policy, planning history, the Flood Map for Planning and whether biodiversity net gain is likely to apply. That creates a sharper buyer conversation without presenting a desktop review as a planning opinion.

-   Land Registry mapping and title interpretation are not the same task.
-   A policy allocation does not establish access, consent or viability.
-   Subject to exceptions, biodiversity net gain in England requires at least 10% and long-term habitat management; a desktop note is not the calculation.

## Tell us the essentials.

Share what you know so far. We can discuss the remaining details.

-   Site plan, title references and ownership entity.
-   Access and rights information.
-   Planning history, studies and correspondence.
-   Current occupation and neighbour issues.
-   Preferred transaction and timing.

## Common questions.

### Will you estimate planning prospects?

No. Rivermark organises the site facts and policy sources so a planning consultant can advise the owner.

### Can you identify developers to approach?

Yes. Rivermark builds the list around location, scale, use and transaction route, then contacts only the names the owner approves.

### Does the flood map settle flood risk?

No. It is an initial screen. The planning route can require a site-specific flood-risk assessment and other evidence.

## Explore further.

### Property guidance and sources

-   [GOV.UK biodiversity net gain](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/biodiversity-net-gain)Current 10% objective, exceptions and long-term framework in England.
-   [Environment Agency Flood Map for Planning](https://flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk/)Initial flood-risk screening for land in England.
-   [HM Land Registry property information](https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry)Registered title information for legal-owner checks.

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## Send the land details.

Send the location, property requirement and timing.

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