// CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

OS basemaps and terrain for land promoters, housebuilders and contractors.

Before a site becomes a planning application it is a land assembly, a cut-and-fill question and an access problem. We license MasterMap, NGD land features, terrain and imagery for promoters and contractors who need GB-accurate context long before the architect asks for a 1:1250 location plan.

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MasterMap for site assembly, access and neighbouring buildings
Terrain 5 and 1m for early cut-fill, drainage and platform levels
Imagery and land features for desk feasibility before survey

// WHO THIS IS FOR

Promoters, housebuilders and delivery contractors.

A land team buying options needs a different cut from a regional contractor running twenty live jobs. Both still sit on MasterMap rather than a screenshot from a listing portal.

Land and planning

Promoters, housebuilders and development managers.

You are assembling sites, testing access, and briefing architects. MasterMap plus terrain and imagery is the desk pack. When a scheme goes in for planning, that is a separate PlanningMapsUK map-pack workflow — this page is the GIS and feasibility licence.

Red-line options against current buildings and access
Neighbouring context for privacy, overlooking and highways
Terrain for platform, drainage and flood conversation
Regional coverage across a land pipeline, not one plot

Delivery and contractors

Main contractors, civils and site engineering.

Live jobs need a georeferenced basemap and elevation for temporary works, haul routes and setting-out context. This does not replace a topographic survey; it stops the survey starting from a blank page.

British National Grid basemaps for the site compound
1m or 5m DTM for haul roads, platforms and stockpiles
Imagery for progress and neighbour-condition records
Contractor reuse scoped so subcontractors are inside the licence

// USE CASES

Development uses that are not a planning PDF.

When the output is a council location plan, use the planning-map product. When the output is a land pipeline, a feasibility model or a site GIS, license the data.

Site assembly and options

See current buildings, plots and access on MasterMap while you still have three red-line options on the table.

Access and highways context

Join the Highways Network to the site so a “we will come off the B-road” sketch matches the actual junction geometry.

Early earthworks and drainage

Terrain 5 for pipeline sifting; Terrain 1m when a platform or cut-fill number will be discussed with a civil engineer.

Land cover and BNG screens

NGD Land Features and imagery for a first biodiversity and greenspace read before the ecologist is instructed.

Neighbour and rights context

Buildings, paths and land parcels for overlooking, rights of way and party-wall conversations at feasibility, not at committee.

Regional pipeline GIS

One licensed regional cut across every option site, instead of a new screenshot each time a land manager opens Google.

// THE OS DATA UNDERNEATH

Datasets development teams ask for before planning.

MasterMap and terrain do most of the work. Land features and imagery come in for feasibility screens; Highways comes in when access is the risk.

Basemap

MasterMap Topography

Buildings, plots, fences and access — the feasibility basemap for every option site.

Elevation

Terrain 5

5m DTM for pipeline sifting, drainage conversation and early platform thinking.

Elevation

Terrain 1m

1m DTM/DSM when cut-fill, levels or a civil engineer will rely on the number.

Land

NGD Land Features

Land cover, vegetation and greenspace for BNG and planning-risk screens.

Aerial

Imagery Layer

Aerial check of access, trees, neighbouring roofs and site condition.

Highways

Highways Network

Road geometry and classification for access strategy and off-site highways.

// HOW IT'S DELIVERED

A regional GIS for the land book. A clip for a live job.

1. Regional file licence

MasterMap, terrain and imagery for the counties you actually promote in. Land managers and planners work in GIS, not from emailed PDFs.

Best for: housebuilder and promoter land teams.

2. Single-site or job clip

A tight AOI for a live contract, including contractor reuse. Closer to a project pack than an enterprise GIS.

Best for: main contractors on a named site.

3. Planning-map product

When the scheme needs a council-ready 1:1250 location plan or 1:500 block plan, that is the self-serve PlanningMapsUK map builder — not this B2B licence.

Best for: the application itself.

// LICENSING, EXPLAINED

Pipeline GIS is not a planning-map download.

Land pipeline and feasibility

A regional or national licence covering named group companies, option sites and internal GIS seats. White-label JV vehicles need to be listed if they hold the data.

The planning submission

A location plan or block plan for a single application is a different product with a different licence printed on the PDF. Do not copy a GIS extract onto a planning portal and hope.

// FAQ

Questions from land, planning and commercial managers.

Can we use this licence to submit a planning application?

Not as a screenshot from GIS. Council submissions need a licensed location plan and usually a block plan with the red line, north point and OS acknowledgement printed on the sheet. Use the planning-map product for that step.

Does Terrain 1m replace a topographic survey?

No. It is a desk and design-context layer. Setting-out, levels for construction and legal boundaries still need a surveyor.

We operate across several housebuilding brands. One licence?

Usually, if we name the group companies. Unnamed JV SPVs are the usual hole — tell us about them before they sit on a shared drive.

Can consultants on the project use the data?

Yes if we scope consultant access. An architect receiving a DWG extract is a different use from a land manager in your GIS.

Do you cover Scotland and Wales as well as England?

Yes. OS data here is Great Britain. Northern Ireland is outside this catalogue.

How do we start on one live site while the regional licence is quoted?

A single-site clip or a planning-map order unblocks the application. The regional GIS licence can follow for the rest of the pipeline.

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// REQUEST A QUOTE

Tell us whether this is a land pipeline or a live job.

Share the operating region, whether contractors must hold the data, and whether you also need council-ready planning maps for a named site. We will reply within one UK working day.

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