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Across London, one home, two to three homes and four to nine homes are approved at similar rates, but a few boroughs behave very differently.

We ranked London's boroughs by how often they approved schemes of one to nine homes since 2021, from Merton at 71 per cent to Havering at 30.

A seven-step order of play for a London landowner who thinks a plot might take a home or two: constraints, precedent, access, route and council.

Since 2021 London councils decided 9,756 applications for one to nine new homes and approved 47 per cent. Borough by borough, where small schemes and garden plots get permission, where they do not, and how long it takes.

Selling off a slice of your garden for someone else to build on sounds simple, but it touches your title deeds, your mortgage, your access, and your neighbours. Here's what to check before you put a for-sale sign on the flower bed.

Green Belt is a boundary, not a verdict. The three questions that decide whether a Green Belt plot has development value, and how developers price each answer.

Every housebuilder prices land the same way. Here is the method, why offers for the same plot differ, and how to check a number in ten minutes.

Settlement boundary, designations, access, neighbours and nearby decisions: the five checks a planning officer makes, and how to make them yourself before paying anyone.

If a developer has approached you about your garden, or you're simply curious what it might fetch, the answer depends almost entirely on what can be built, not on what the land means to you. Here's how the numbers actually work.

Planning constraints affect what you can build on your land. But not all constraints are equal, some are deal-breakers, others just change the path forward.

The phrase gets thrown around constantly, but what does it actually mean when an estate agent, developer, or solicitor says your land has development potential?

Whether you're selling a garden plot or a farmyard, every land transaction comes down to the same three variables. Understanding them changes how you think about your options.

Planning gain is the increase in land value that comes with planning permission. Most landowners give it away without realising.

Land with planning potential can be worth 5–20x its current use value. Knowing how to sell it makes all the difference.

Development potential is what determines whether your land could be worth far more than its current use. Here's how to understand it.

An option agreement is one of the most common ways developers approach landowners. Here's what they actually are, how they work, and the questions you should ask before signing one.

Thousands of UK homeowners have gardens large enough to interest developers. But 'can you?' and 'should you?' are very different questions.

Learn how to assess your land development potential with Check My Land, our free valuation tool for landowners.