Landowner appraisal terms

Version ln-2026-11

1. Who these terms are for, and when they apply

These terms are between Estavelle Ltd, company number 17443238, and the person or organisation asking us to assess land or buildings (the Owner). Our registered office is Suite RA01, 195-197 Wood Street, London E17 3NU. You can contact Jamie Pratt at jamie@estavelle.co.uk or on 07425 056579.

An initial enquiry or conversation does not accept these appraisal terms or create a commercial commitment. These terms apply when you expressly request a free Asset Passport and accept this version, either through the detailed intake or in a written request which identifies it. Simply sending us site information does not create exclusivity, introduction protection or an obligation to proceed.

These terms cover the free appraisal service. A protected introduction, any continuing commercial support and any use or occupation of land require their own agreements.

2. Your free Asset Passport

The Asset Passport is a private desktop commercial record and options appraisal. It is based on the information you give us, the public information we examine and the scope we agree with you.

It records the site and your rules, up to three ranked uses worth considering, why they have been ranked that way, the evidence available and the checks still needed. If fewer uses merit consideration, we say so. We do not add a route merely to fill the record.

After a first conversation, we agree the delivery date with you. Sending the intake requests the service; it does not generate an immediate assessment or promise a standard turnaround.

An income estimate is included only where its basis supports it. Where figures are used, their source, date, assumptions and meaning are stated. Customer takings, an operator's space payment, the owner's receipts and the owner's profit are different amounts. An unsupported figure is withheld. Illustrative material is identified as such.

3. Status and evidence

Green means a use looks viable on the evidence available. It is not permission to start or a guarantee that an arrangement will follow.

Amber means a use needs proving. The Passport records the deciding questions and what must be checked.

Red means no today. It judges access, demand and cost on the information available, not the value of the land or your judgement. A Red route carries no speculative income estimate.

Needs information means there are insufficient facts to make a judgement. We record what is missing.

Evidence of general market demand, a business wanting this kind of space, a requirement compatible with your site and interest in your particular opportunity are different things. We say which we have established. Interest does not resolve access, permission or cost.

If the road changes, a grid connection appears or demand moves, you can ask us for a free fresh look.

4. Scope and checks before commitment

The initial Passport is a desktop commercial opinion. It is not a RICS valuation, a survey, a planning application, a permission, a legal interest in land or an offer from an operator. It is not legal, tax, structural, insurance or regulated financial advice. No site visit is included in the initial desktop scope; a later visit is agreed separately with you.

We identify relevant questions on the evidence available. We do not certify planning lawfulness, structural safety, title, access rights, utilities capacity or compliance with every regulatory requirement. Public records and information supplied to us can be incomplete or out of date.

Before anyone commits money, grants rights, starts works or occupies the site, the parties must obtain the checks, qualified advice, permissions and insurance that the actual proposal requires. Estavelle does not produce survey, topographical or planning drawings in-house.

Changing how land or buildings are used can affect their tax position, including agricultural and business property reliefs. Your accountant or tax adviser should consider that before an arrangement is agreed.

5. Your rules come first

We record the areas you want considered, availability, access, existing uses, activities you would allow and anything you would never allow. An undecided answer is a question to resolve, not permission.

We use those rules to screen possible uses and business requirements. A proposal outside them requires a new discussion with you. No permission to visit, undertake works, bring customers to the site or begin an activity arises from a Passport or an introduction.

You can change your brief before an arrangement is agreed. Changes after agreement follow that arrangement's own terms and the rights of other affected parties.

6. What is free, and what is agreed separately

Landowners pay no Estavelle service fee. The initial conversation, Asset Passport and an introduction are free to the Owner. Receiving a Passport does not authorise us to incur expenditure on your behalf.

If an arrangement proceeds, Estavelle is paid through the agreed business arrangement. The fee reflects the role and commercial support we agree to provide. Before commitment, the relevant parties agree the scope, who pays, the fee base, when payment is due and any continuing obligations in writing. A fee based on an operator's space payment is different from a fee based on customer trading receipts. There is one agreed route and fee base for an activation; Estavelle does not apply a second fee to the same revenue.

Physical works and qualified professional advice are separate costs. The business, the Owner or both may fund them, as expressly agreed for the proposal. Estavelle does not fund physical works. We do not instruct work at your expense without your express agreement to the scope and cost.

Before works are commissioned, the parties agree who instructs and pays for them, required approvals, contractor arrangements, warranties and what happens if the proposal stops. This appraisal does not settle those matters.

7. How an introduction progresses

If a route is worth pursuing, we agree with you what information may be shared and the scope of any search or proposed introduction. Your identity, exact site address, private notes and documents are not published as an open listing.

Before sharing identifying or confidential information for a protected introduction, we ask the relevant parties to accept a separate written introduction agreement. It must specify the particular opportunity, site, proposed use, route, the introduced party or agreed disclosure reference, any protection period and any fee or other obligation. It must also address genuine pre-existing discussions about the same opportunity.

Accepting these appraisal terms does not itself impose non-circumvention, exclusivity, a minimum term or an obligation to take a site forward. Protection for a particular introduction must be expressly agreed. It does not automatically extend to an estate, unrelated land, unrelated uses or a party's other business.

Once the introduction basis is agreed, you can learn the business's identity, meet the people involved and make enquiries before deciding whether to enter a site agreement. A short introduction agreement is separate from agreeing occupation or commercial operation of the land.

Estavelle facilitates the discussion and provides the support agreed with the parties. We cannot bind you or the business to an arrangement without authority, and you can involve your existing land agent, accountant, solicitor and other advisers.

8. Information and authority

You should have authority to share the information and tell us if you are acting for someone else or if relevant consent is still needed. Information should be accurate to the best of your knowledge. Tell us about material uncertainties, existing interests, restrictions or changes which could affect an assessment.

Providing information is not a warranty that you can grant occupation or change the use. The actual proposal must be checked against ownership, tenancy, lender, estate, access and other relevant rights before commitment.

9. Stopping, future contact and changes of ownership

You may decline a route, decline an introduction or stop the appraisal by telling us. There is no cancellation fee for the free appraisal service. Stopping it does not cancel an agreement you have separately entered into.

Where you want us to retain a site for possible future consideration, we record that request and handle the information under the privacy notice. Keeping a record does not grant exclusive access, guarantee further work or create a permanent obligation to search.

These appraisal terms do not bind a buyer or successor to a future site arrangement merely because ownership changes. Any continuing site rights, obligations, transfer requirements and handback arrangements must be addressed in that site's agreement. Existing separately agreed obligations continue according to their own terms.

10. Care, responsibility and limits

We will carry out the agreed desktop service with reasonable care and skill. The Passport's scope and evidence limits are as described above. We do not guarantee permission, a willing business, successful trading or any amount of income.

Each party remains responsible for its own obligations. Estavelle remains responsible for the services it agrees to provide; an independent operator remains responsible for its operation under the relevant agreements.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability for fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Describing the appraisal as free does not remove rights or responsibilities which the law does not permit us to exclude. These terms do not impose a liability cap calculated from the price of the free appraisal.

11. Your information

We handle personal information under our privacy notice at https://estavelle.co.uk/privacy. Asking for a Passport is not consent to unrelated marketing or to publishing your information.

You can ask for access, correction or removal of your information and site record, and you can object to direct marketing. Some minimal records may need to be retained to respect an objection, meet a legal obligation or deal with an existing agreement or claim. We explain any applicable restriction when responding.

12. Version, other agreements and law

Your request records the version you accepted and the acceptance date. We do not replace a version you accepted by silently editing its text. A later version applies to a new request or to an expressly agreed change, not retrospectively merely because it is published.

These are version ln-2026-11 of the free appraisal terms. They do not rewrite an existing signed introduction, operating or site agreement. A previously accepted version is retained as part of the relevant record.

The law of England and Wales governs these terms. Any rights and protections which apply by law and cannot be excluded remain in place.