Strategic Land & Development

Northern Trust has a land bank of over 5,000 acres, and is actively looking for further residential and commercial land opportunities to purchase, promote or develop throughout the UK. 

Northern Trust has a dedicated team of development, construction and planning professionals who can structure acquisitions or site promotions to suit individual circumstances. These include unconditional or conditional site purchases, joint ventures / promotions, company acquisitions or design and build projects. 

The company has an impressive track record of achieving planning consent on sites and has been successfully promoting its own, and third party landowner's sites. In the last 24 months the team has achieved planning for c 4,500 residential units, and our current projects covering more than 30 sites incorporate a mixture of uses including the potential of bringing forward a further 5,000 new homes.  

In addition, Northern Trust has developed over 3 million sq ft of commercial space in over 50 locations with a further 500,000 sq ft currently under construction or due to commence on site within the next year. The company also benefits from a supplementary land bank for the longer term development, and design and build opportunities for a variety of uses are available for potential occupiers to discuss. 

Northern Trust's land and development team have requirements for:

• Strategic brownfield or greenfield sites from 3 acres to 100 acres plus, for purchase or promotion
• Sites suitable for industrial development of up to 10 acres
• The residential housing team, Lanley Homes is actively looking for sites suitable for the development of between 3 and 25 houses across Lancashire.