For landowners in Essex
We buy land and buildings with development potential in south and west Essex, close to London: infill plots, large gardens, brownfield sites and commercial buildings. We do the planning work and pay the planning costs.
Tell us where the site is. We will come back with an honest view of its potential.
Prefer to talk? Call 0203 399 8226.
In Essex we look for land in and around existing towns and villages, including sites that have been built on before.
There is no minimum or maximum size of land required.
Land where nobody has applied yet, or where an application was refused.
Offices, industrial units and shops that could become homes, or carry extra floors on the roof.
Garages, yards and outbuildings sitting idle on a larger site.
Vacant, derelict or previously developed land. Some Green Belt land now counts as grey belt.
The parts of Essex closest to London are mostly Green Belt. Epping Forest district is around 90% Green Belt, and the same pattern runs through Brentwood and Thurrock. Land with a realistic route to planning is scarce, which is what makes it valuable.
National planning policy now recognises grey belt: land in the Green Belt that has been built on before, or that does not strongly serve the purposes of the Green Belt. Where a council cannot meet its housing need, some of this land can now be considered for homes, subject to conditions such as affordable housing and green space. Old yards, nurseries and edge-of-village plots near a station are worth a fresh look.
In the towns, the usual opportunities apply: large rear gardens, infill plots, garage courts and commercial buildings that could be converted or replaced.
South and west Essex, closest to London: Epping Forest, Brentwood, Harlow, Thurrock, Basildon, Chelmsford, Castle Point and Rochford, plus the neighbouring London boroughs of Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.
Not in Essex? See London, Surrey, Kent or Hertfordshire, or read how deals with developers are structured.
We agree a fair market price now, run the planning application ourselves, then complete the purchase once permission is granted.
Best if you want a clean sale and a known price.
Your land goes into the scheme. We plan, build and sell it, and you share in the profit when the homes are sold.
Best if you want a bigger share of the upside.
We look at planning history, constraints and what could be built.
We show you the likely value and the routes open to you.
A fair market offer, subject to planning, or joint venture terms.
Our in-house team runs planning through to completion.
We were a development partner on one of the first sites TfL released through the Mayor of London's Small Sites Small Builders programme, and TfL has since trusted us with a second.
Poplar, Tower Hamlets: planning granted for 9 new homes over five storeys on a tight, constrained plot, and works on site have started. Palmerston Crescent, Enfield: around 70 new homes, now in planning. For TfL, that means surplus land turned into new homes, with us taking the schemes through planning.
No. Most of the sites we buy have no planning when we first see them. Getting planning permission is our job.
There is no minimum or maximum size of site. We work on everything from small infill plots to schemes of around 70 homes.
London and the Home Counties.
Building on green belt is tightly controlled, so it is rarely a fit. Send it anyway and we will give you our view.
We do. On a subject-to-planning deal Kisiel pays for the architects, surveys, reports and the planning application. You pay nothing to get your site through planning.
