If you are looking for an accurate feasibility study for land development, that will provide you with a comprehensive assessment of a project’s viability, then pleased don’t order anything until you have read our short guide.
Any land development feasibility study will rightly examine market conditions, financial potential, and potential risks to determine if it is likely to succeed. It will then let you make an informed decisions on financial viability, land value, design practicality, estimated costs, and market demand before committing significant resources.
However, most feasibility studies will fall short in just how much value you can extract from the land… and this is where our LVA Method™ can help. Read on to find out how we could unlock hidden millions in value for your development project.
Why a standard feasibility study leaves money on the table
Most feasibility studies for land development are written to answer a single question: “is this scheme viable as briefed?” Whilst useful – the brief, massing, or policy angle is possibly wrong. Land value is rarely fixed. It’s shaped by how you frame the site, what you optimise for, and which planning hooks you pull.
Intelligent Land reframes feasibility as value acceleration. We’re not here to validate one option – we’re here to discover the best one.
Outcome over paperwork: A feasibility confirms the past. The LVA Method™ engineers the future.
Feasibility vs LVA: what changes for you
Feasibility asks: Can we proceed?
LVA asks: How do we proceed to maximise value, reduce risk, and win permission fast?
| Traditional Feasibility | LVA Method™ | |
| Focus | Does this scheme stack? | Which scheme wins across value, risk, and permissionability? |
| Inputs | Static brief, single mix | Adaptive brief, policy‑led envelopes, live constraints |
| Method | Cost plan + comps | AI scenario engine + planning heuristics + behavioural strategy |
| Speed | Weeks | Often within 24 hours |
| Output | Go/No-Go report | Ranked playbook + 90‑day action plan |
| Impact | Margins clarified | £1m+ uplift identified in many cases |
What is the Land Value Accelerator™ (LVA Method™)?
Intelligent Land blends proprietary AI with 30 years of planning expertise. The result is a fast, contrarian system that exposes “fat‑tailed” opportunities conventional workflows miss.
Step 1 – Review Planning Permissions
We interrogate current consents, conditions, and policy context to establish the true starting line—often revealing scope for amendments, material variations, or re‑sequencing to unlock value.
Step 2 – Undertake Research
Technical, legal, highways, utilities, drainage, heritage/townscape, viability norms, and BNG/ESG obligations are mapped into a machine‑readable brief. We align with design codes and local plan trajectories, so optimisation stays permission‑minded, not just spreadsheet‑smart.
Step 3 – Scenario Testing
Our AI runs thousands of permutations (use‑class mix, density bands, phasing, mitigation strategies, s106/CIL interplay, biodiversity credits). We score each on value, deliverability, and political acceptability, surfacing the dominant strategy rather than a “least‑bad compromise.”
Result: Not just feasible, but fundable, permissions granted, and optimised for increase land value.
When LVA outperforms a standalone feasibility study
- Tight or negative margins where micro‑shifts (mix, massing, phasing) transform outcomes.
- BNG friction where credits, habitat banks, or on/off‑site blends change the economics.
- Mixed‑use briefs needing the right blend of sale, rental, and social value to win hearts and committees.
- Pre‑acquisition bids where speed and certainty justify a bolder price – or a disciplined walk‑away.
- Stalled consents that “nearly work” but can’t clear lender or member risk thresholds.
Behavioural advantage: Reframing risk as a portfolio of options calms boardrooms and shortens yes/no cycles.
What you get with our land development feasibility study
- Executive Value Summary – quantified planning uplift potential (often £1m+ within 24 hours in many cases) and the levers that create it.
- Planning Strategy Map – permission pathway, policy hooks, likely conditions, and committee narrative.
- AI Scenario Deck – ranked scenarios with sensitivity charts and risk heat‑maps.
- 90‑Day Action Plan – sequence for consultation, design sprints, technical fixes, and funding milestones.
- Investment Narrative – lender‑ and stakeholder‑ready story that makes the value case obvious.
Case vignette (illustrative)
A regional developer inherited a marginal 2.3ha consent. Traditional feasibility: “barely viable.” LVA reframed the mix, introduced BTR to smooth cashflow, banked BNG via a blended on/off‑site strategy, and re‑phased infrastructure. Outcome: £1.4m uplift in 36 hours with a clearer committee path and lender confidence to proceed.
The hidden cost of “just doing a feasibility study”
Every month of drift is opportunity decay – finance costs climb, policy shifts, and narrative hardens. The fee is not the cost; the missed options are. LVA converts unknowns into a ranked pipeline of moves you can execute now.
How we can work together
- Discovery Call (20 – 30 mins) – objectives, red‑lines, ambition (book now).
- Data Drop – drawings, surveys, legal packs, prior reports.
- LVA Sprint – rapid modelling + policy synthesis.
- Readout – we show the dominant strategy; you choose; we refine; you move.
Speed. Certainty. Exclusivity. We partner with a limited number of clients at any time to maintain velocity.
Who it’s for / not for
- For: UK developers, promoters, landowners, RP/HA partners, councils, and funds who value fast, defensible decisions.
- Not for: Teams seeking a tick‑box report without acting on the findings.
FAQs
- Is the LVA a replacement for a feasibility study? It’s an upgrade. We include feasibility fundamentals but go further to engineer value and de‑risk planning.
- How quickly can we see results? In many cases, within 24 hours of the LVA Sprint we present a quantified uplift and next steps.
- Will this help with committee risk? Yes. By aligning scenarios with policy intent and local priorities, we improve planning permission and narrative.
- Do you work pre‑acquisition? Frequently. LVA gives bidders confidence to price in upside before exchange.
- BNG is killing our margins, can you help? We model on‑site and off‑site strategies, credits, and phasing to convert BNG from cost‑centre to value lever.
Unlock hidden millions in land value today.
Book a 20‑minute scoping call or request an LVA readout for your site.
