TERAVA / UK land intelligence
Know the land before you move.
Search a site once. Review parcel context, planning history, mapped constraints, flood risk, environmental evidence and report-ready findings in one connected workspace.
Land intelligence
Professional workflows
Primary public sources behind TERAVA research
TERAVA organises public and authoritative evidence around the site, while the current publisher record remains the reference point when a finding is material.
UK land intelligence before specialist due diligence
Land and property research in the UK is fragmented across planning portals, HM Land Registry products, environmental mapping, flood datasets, heritage records and local authority information. TERAVA brings the discovery stage around one site so users can compare those sources in the same spatial context before deeper legal, planning or technical work begins.
The platform is designed for early screening rather than false certainty. Define the land, review the relevant evidence, identify findings that could materially affect the decision and return those findings to the current authoritative source. Formal searches, title documents, planning advice, surveys and specialist reports remain essential where the decision requires them.
This approach supports development site sourcing, planning appraisal, acquisition due diligence, valuation, renewable-energy site review, landowner strategy and portfolio screening because the same evidence sequence can be repeated consistently across several candidate sites.
Evidence families around the same parcel
TERAVA groups planning, ownership, flood and water, environment, heritage, access, ground-risk, transport, infrastructure and local-context datasets around the same parcel or drawn site. That common spatial basis matters because a planning designation can interact with flood risk, an access route can depend on title rights, and an environmental feature can change the survey or consultation needed before a scheme progresses.
Users can start at the data-layer library , move through category hubs such as planning , flood risk , ownership and environment , then open the dataset page for provider, coverage, source link, limitations and verification guidance.
Source-led research and visible limitations
TERAVA identifies the provider behind important mapped evidence and keeps limitations visible because different sources answer different questions. HM Land Registry parcel context, Environment Agency flood mapping, Natural England environmental designations, Historic England heritage records, Planning Data services and ONS statistics should not be interpreted as if they have the same legal or technical status.
The public source directory , dataset-status register , methodology library and editorial standard explain how evidence is sourced, screened, dated and verified. The objective is a clearer first pass: identify what is known, what remains uncertain and which authoritative or professional evidence should be obtained next.
From first-pass screening to a reusable site record
A TERAVA investigation is designed to stay attached to the same parcel as the work develops. A user can begin with a location or boundary, review mapped constraints and planning context, save the site to Portfolio and carry the resulting evidence into a structured report rather than rebuilding the research in separate tools.
That continuity is especially useful when several people review the same opportunity. The site geometry, source context, material findings and unresolved questions remain connected, making it easier to hand work between acquisition, planning, design, valuation and legal teams. Portfolio reports are working and screening documents rather than substitutes for formal searches or specialist advice, but they create a clearer evidence trail for deciding what should happen next.