We believe in common good land use with shared benefits.
Get information on the land the around you. Find, access and manage land, either for a new project or your next one.
Ever wondered who owns the derelict land you run past each day, what’s happening to the playing fields next door, or if that plot is suitable for growing food?
With Land Explorer you can find suitable sites for your project and provide insight or evidence for your community-based development.
Get information on the land the around you. Find, access and manage land, either for a new project or your next one.
Ever wondered who owns the derelict land you run past each day, what’s happening to the playing fields next door, or if that plot is suitable for growing food?
With Land Explorer you can find suitable sites for your project and provide insight or evidence for your community-based development.
Get information on the land the around you. Find, access and manage land, either for a new project or your next one.
Ever wondered who owns the derelict land you run past each day, what’s happening to the playing fields next door, or if that plot is suitable for growing food?
With Land Explorer you can find suitable sites for your project and provide insight or evidence for your community-based development.
Search
Search using the most detailed maps from Ordnance Survey, to find your perfect plot.
View
Floods, soil types, greenbelt & brownfield. Land Registry data coming soon.
Draw
Plan your site – measure, mark, calculate, label and present an area for your project.
Share
Collaborate with your team, community, stakeholders. Engage and share your vision.
Data Partners
Supporters
Community
Community-led housing projects make sure that new homes are built, and empty homes and buildings are brought back into use.
Homes built by the community, for the community, designed to meet your local needs.
Usually developed by or in partnership with your community organisation, your local community organisation owns, manages or stewards the homes in a manor of your choosing.
Land Explorer allows you to view ownership and see Public Land for sale to identify potential sites.
Grassroots economic activity is happening all over the UK and puts the wellbeing of your community above profit for the few.
From worker co-ops to community land trusts and free and open source software projects (like Land Explorer) – these initiatives share common values that are about improving the lives and livelihoods of people and our planet.
It’s time to focus on changing our system to one that is sustainable, transformative, and meets the needs of our communities. Need to find a site for your co-working space? Want to build a better future?
Land Explorer is working with organisations like Solidarity Economy Association to map initiatives and visualise connections. Another economy is not just possible: it’s already happening.
Our environment can change not only our mood, but our biochemistry. We find nature pleasing, with more than two-thirds of us choosing a natural setting to retreat to when stressed.
So it’s important we have spaces in which to play, have fun and exercise. Access and use of open spaces contributes both to the physical and mental wellbeing of our community.
The way we manage our parks, waterways, woodlands and green spaces is changing. With organisations that have historically managed them facing substantial cuts. At the same time there is a growing demand from communities for access to land, and an increasing recognition of the important benefits it provides.
Land Explorer can display Ordnance Survey Green Spaces for the Public Sector, shows detailed topography for community groups and is working on tools for natural capital accounting and evidence bases to support better decision making around our green spaces.
Community led energy delivers renewable energy, energy demand reduction and energy supply. Either wholly owned and/or controlled by your community or through partnership with commercial or public sector partners.
By placing democratic control, shared benefits and active participation at the centre of project delivery, community energy can create a foundation for the significant infrastructural and cultural changes we need to reduce the impact of climate change and increase our energy security.
Land Explorer supports the investigation of suitable sites and in future will help with mapping our energy generation, storage and distribution needs.
Community food enterprises are a success story of local collective action. Groups around the UK are creating thriving communities with permaculture to improve access to organic, fresh, healthy and locally grown food in our communities.
As a design process permaculture helps design intelligent systems which meet human needs whilst enhancing biodiversity, reducing our impact on the planet, and creating a fairer world for us all.
Ecological land-based businesses help rural regeneration; farming, forestry and other enterprises that support our community needs.
Land Explorer can help you find your small plot, or large farm, for rural, suburban and urban agriculture.
Who Owns England?
A blog by Guy Shrubsole & Anna Powell-Smith
Read more about “Who owns England?” One of the most closely-guarded secrets in the thousand-year-old history of our country. Who owns our country, matters. It matters because land is a finite resource and because ownership of it often confers wealth, power and influence. As Mark Twain put it, “they aren’t making it any more”.
It matters because those who own land get to choose how it’s used and that has big implications for almost everything: where we build our homes, how we grow our food, how we protect ourselves from flooding, how much space we set aside for wildlife – this is all hugely affected by who owns England.
The councils selling land worth millions to offshore companies
