The practice

Senior people. Selective work. Land you can trust us with.

Intelligent Land is deliberately small. There is no junior layer between you and the thinking — you work directly with the people whose judgement you're paying for. Thirty years of it.

Founder

Mark Hewett

Founder & Principal

Mark has spent three decades in strategic land, estate agency and property development. He began as a land buyer, became a land director, and went on to lead major land acquisitions across Southern England for Taylor Woodrow — one of Britain's foremost housebuilders. He founded Intelligent Land to do strategic land properly: senior judgement, applied to the whole life of a site, aligned to the owner's exit rather than the adviser's fee.

His conviction is simple. Permission is the starting point, not the finish line — and most land is worth more than its owner is being told. The Land Value Accelerator is how he proves it.

30yrsstrategic land & development
Taylor Woodrowmajor land acquisitions, South
LVA Method™creator
The partners

The people who do the thinking.

Graham Freeman

Strategic Land Partner

Leads strategic land mandates and major client relationships, including institutional estates — the senior hand on the most complex disposals.

Nigel Jacobs MRTPI

Planning Director

Chartered town planner leading planning strategy, viability and policy — Five-Year Housing Land Supply, NPPF, allocations and appeals.

Richard Henshaw MRTPI

Planning

Chartered town planner. The policy analysis and land-supply case behind every appraisal — evidence that stands up at inquiry.

James Bromhead MRICS

Valuation & Survey

Chartered surveyor bringing RICS valuation discipline to every appraisal — the numbers behind the Land Value Accelerator.

Supported by a wider team across land, planning, analysis and operations, with associate specialists engaged per mandate.

How we work

Three principles we don't bend on.

Owner-aligned

We work to your exit, not our fee. The strategy is built around what you want from the land.

Senior throughout

No hand-offs to a junior layer. The people you meet are the people who do the work.

Honest early

If we can't add value, we say so straight away — before you've spent a penny finding out.

Chartered planning and surveying expertise in-house — judgement you can stand a transaction on.
MRTPI ×2Chartered planners
MRICSChartered surveyor
NPPFPolicy-led advice
30yrsTrack record
No obligation · no pressure

Talk to the people who'll do the work.

A confidential conversation with a partner — not a sales call.

If we don't think we can add value, we'll tell you straight away.