Who Is Hallam Land Management?

Hallam Land Management, a subsidiary of the publicly traded Henry Boot PLC, is one of the UK’s largest strategic land promoters. Their core business is acquiring and promoting land—often greenfield or edge-of-settlement sites—for large-scale housing and commercial development.

Operating nationally, Hallam manages a portfolio of over 100,000 plots, with the aim of securing planning permissions and selling to volume housebuilders. In the past five years alone, they’ve sold over 14,000 plots to developers like Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon, and Countryside.

This is not a local company with a long-term community interest. Their model is built around identifying land, securing permission, and moving on—leaving the long-term impact to residents and local services.

Why Should Our Community Be Concerned?

Hallam promotes sites with a high success rate, which might sound impressive—but it means communities across the UK are repeatedly facing unwanted, speculative development.

🚧 Their Track Record by the Numbers:

• Over 90% of their schemes secure planning permission, often in areas facing intense local opposition

• ~57% of refused schemes are later pushed through on appeal, bypassing locally elected councils

• In 2024 alone, they secured permission for nearly 3,000 new homes, with more than 2,000 plots currently under appeal

These statistics show that even when local councils or communities say no, Hallam often finds a way to push proposals through—frequently using well-funded legal and planning teams.

Their Process, Our Risk

Hallam’s approach is designed to minimise their financial risk while maximising development gain:

1. They sign land promotion agreements with landowners—often quietly and years in advance.

2. They fund the planning process and manage consultations, often with limited meaningful engagement with local residents.

3. If permission is granted (or won on appeal), they sell to large-scale developers—who then build, often with minimal affordable housing or inadequate infrastructure.

Once land is sold and development begins, Hallam typically steps away, leaving local residents to deal with the traffic, overcrowded schools, pressure on healthcare, and loss of green space that can follow.

What This Means for Our Community

Hallam Land’s proposal is not just another planning application. It’s part of a wider, national business model focused on unlocking land value—regardless of whether the site is right for the area or supported by the local community.

We’re not just facing a housing development. We’re facing a process that’s designed to succeed, whether local people want it or not.

Stand Up, Speak Out

Planning decisions must reflect local needs, not corporate ambition. With your voice and action, we can challenge speculative development that puts pressure on our roads, services, environment, and way of life.

Let’s make sure our community—not a remote land promoter—shapes our future.