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Aerial view of a stubble field and pasture at the edge of a Hertfordshire village

We work with landowners whose fields sit at the edge of a village.

Harewell Land is a strategic land promoter based in Hitchin. We take land with development potential through the planning system at our own cost, and we share the outcome with the owner.

Tell us about your land
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What a land promoter does

We obtain planning permission on your land. You keep the land until it sells.

A promoter pays for the planning work, carries the risk of refusal, and is paid only when consented land is sold.

Most fields at the edge of a settlement will never be built on. A few will, because the local plan needs homes and the site makes sense. Finding out which is which takes planning expertise, surveys, consultation and several years. That is our work.

We do not buy your land at the start, and we do not build houses. When permission is granted, the site is sold to a housebuilder in an open process. You receive the larger share of the proceeds. We receive our costs back and an agreed share of what is left.

Read what happens after our first letter.
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Who carries the risk

Nothing is paid by you, at any stage.

Harewell LandYou, the owner
Planning costsPaid by us in full: consultants, surveys, application fees, appeals.Nothing to pay.
OwnershipWe hold no title and take no charge over the land.Stays with you until a sale you have agreed to.
If planning is refusedWe absorb every cost.Your land is unchanged. The agreement ends.
If planning is grantedCosts returned, plus an agreed share of the net sale price.The larger share of the net sale price.
See the two agreements in plain words.
Oblique aerial view of a single field beside the last houses of a village
Field walk · parcel 0418 · hedges intact · access from the lane