Turning strategic land into high quality, sustainable communites where people want to live

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Bellway are trustworthy, professional, and a pleasure to deal with on a personal level - they'll be my first call when finding a partner for my next site.

- T. A. M. Landowner, Surrey

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Trusted, quality homebuilder with 75 years' experience

Bellway Homes has grown from a local family firm founded in 1946 into one of the country's leading publicly-listed national home providers, with 5 star quality builder status and over 3,000 direct employees.

The Bellway Strategic Land team is responsible for identifying, promoting, and delivering land for homes, community facilities, and – in some cases – mixed-use developments, including land for employment purposes. We are able to identify the most appropriate, sustainable locations for homes and other uses that ensures that we are able to deliver high-value returns for our landowners and for the long-lasting communities we create.

About us

Our bespoke and personal approach to every project provides landowners with a trusted and financially secure delivery partner from day one.

Simon Scougall

Chief Operating Officer

What we do

Our dedicated, professional team will work with and on behalf of landowners to secure planning permission and therefore realise the development potential and value of their land. This involves steering a site through the UK’s complex planning process and ensuring the right planning strategy is adopted in order to maximise the chances of a successful outcome while maximising value and minimising risk and cost.

Land identification

Detailed assessment of any parcel of land involves identification of potential physical, legal and technical constraints while also ensuring that development proposals comply with planning policy set out by the government and local planning authorities.

Land promotion and site design

Once a site is identified as suitable for development, it needs to be promoted through the planning system, navigating a path through political and technical hurdles prior to the submission of a planning application.

Value realisation

Once planning permission has been granted. Bellway purchases the site and the process of building new homes within new sustainable communities begins.

How we do it

Land promotion generally follows a complex procedure set out by both Local and National Planning Policy. Local planning authorities have targets they are required to meet to demonstrate they are delivering a sufficient number of homes to meet local needs. Where local planning authorities fail to meet these targets, opportunities may arise to accelerate the promotion process to crystallise early development potential.

As every site is different, we appoint a dedicated project team of land, planning, and technical specialists whose aim is to demonstrate to the local planning authority that the proposed land is deliverable, developable, and sustainable.

Sites that the local planning authority determines can best demonstrate these three criteria will receive an allocation for development, which precedes the compilation and submission of a planning application.

A Bellway Strategic Land director will be dedicated to working with each landowner from the start of the planning promotion to the end of the project. They will ensure consistency and that the project team delivers the agreed desired outcomes and objectives.

Experienced

Bellway’s track record is a result of our team’s commitment to their work, their expertise and their experience in the industry. The wealth of knowledge across our business and our ability to maximise the potential of each individual site are key reasons we continue to deliver success and value for private, public, and corporate landowners across the country.

Trusted

Bellway is proud to be one of the top homebuilders in the UK, boasting a 5 star quality award and a reputation for building exceptional homes. As a member of the FTSE 250, the company has strong financial covenants with significant funds available to ensure no expense is spared when promoting land through the planning system. Our track record in delivery is recognised by local authorities and landowners alike.

Collaborative

As one of the UK’s largest homebuilders, we have an important role to play in addressing the growing national housing shortage by building high-quality new homes in locations where they’re needed most. By working collaboratively with landowners, key stakeholders, and local authorities, we’re helping to deliver the government’s agenda to build more homes in sustainable locations throughout the country. Many councils want to ensure that any sites they allocate for development are delivered as soon as possible. Having a nationally recognised homebuilder as your partner is received extremely positively by councils who have housing requirements to fulfil. We have a flexible design approach and are able to adapt our houses to reflect the local vernacular architecture styles for the area to ensure they effectively integrate with the local community. We also recognise that legacy is important to some landowners, and we see this through from start to finish.

A Proven track record

We have developed a reputation for being one of the UK’s top housebuilders, having been awarded 5-star status by the Home Builders Federation for eight years running.

You need a well-regarded delivery partner to assure the government and councils that new homes are promptly delivered on your land, and we can help. We have been delivering quality communities for over 75 years, and are a trusted provider of much-needed homes.

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In the financial year ended 2025...

8,749

homes built

8,120

Plots of land acquired

47

NHBC pride in the job awards

South

Rochford,
Essex

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Central

Keresley,
Warwickshire

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Our strategic land team

Meet the team - the Bellway Strategic Land team is responsible for identifying, promoting, and delivering land for homes, community facilities, and – in some cases – mixed-use developments, including land for employment purposes. We are able to identify the most appropriate, sustainable locations for homes and other uses that ensures that we are able to deliver high-value returns for our landowners and for the long-lasting communities we create.

Meet the team

The Bellway Strategic Land team is one of the most capable and experienced in the industry. Our track record and passion for our work is why landowners want to work with Bellway.

Stefan Briddon

Group Strategic Land Managing Director

Responsible development

Responsible and sustainable development is at the core of all of our development proposals.

We believe in the well-being of people. Our approach ensures we deliver high-quality, sustainable developments, as well as communities with social value. Protecting and enhancing the environment is a key requirement for us.

Enhancing communities, preserving and creating long lasting legacy

Working collaboratively with communities, stakeholders, customers and councils

Biodiversity

Each development gives careful consideration to how we can improve biodiversity and how integration of nature into the built environment both protects key species and improves the well-being of people within these new communities.

Sustainability

We try to design our developments to reduce their impact on the natural environment through the promotion of sustainable transport, community-led site layouts and a constraints-led, impact-conscious design approach.

Community

To achieve the level of customer satisfaction required to maintain our 5 star housebuilder status we need to build places where people love to live. Ensuring we design and deliver high quality communities with appropriate community facilities maximises the value of every site for all.