About UK Land Tracker
Tracking land use commitments. Holding policy to account.
Our Mission
UK Land Tracker exists to answer a simple question: Is the government keeping its promises on land use and food policy?
The UK is at a critical juncture. The Land Use Framework, Food Strategy, Environmental Land Management schemes, and planning reforms are all happening simultaneously. These policies will shape how land is used for decades to come — affecting food security, nature recovery, climate targets, and rural communities.
Yet there's no single place to track whether commitments are being kept. Policy documents are published, consultations close, schemes launch and change — but the thread connecting promise to action is lost in the noise.
UK Land Tracker provides that thread. We extract specific, trackable commitments from policy documents, gather evidence of implementation, monitor planning decisions, and make it all accessible through structured data and an AI interface.
What We Track
- Policy Commitments — Specific promises from the Land Use Framework, Food Strategy, and related policy documents
- Implementation Evidence — Announcements, funding allocations, scheme data, and FOI responses that show whether action is happening
- Planning Decisions — Decisions affecting agricultural land, with assessment of alignment to stated policy goals
- Stakeholder Positions — What farmers' unions, environmental groups, and other stakeholders are saying in consultations and public statements
Open Data
All data collected by UK Land Tracker is released under CC-BY 4.0. Researchers, journalists, NGOs, and citizens can freely use, share, and build upon our data with attribution.
We believe accountability tools should be public infrastructure. Our methodology is documented, our data is traceable to source, and our API is publicly accessible.
Who's Behind This
UK Land Tracker is developed by LB Consulting, LLC, a technology consultancy specializing in data platforms for non-profits, NGOs, and international organizations.
UK Land Tracker grew from our work with food systems and environmental organisations, and a recognition that structured, traceable data is essential for meaningful policy accountability. As an independent, non-partisan project with no government or industry affiliations, we aim to provide objective tracking without conflicts of interest.
Governance & Sustainability
UK Land Tracker is designed as public interest infrastructure. While we're committed to building and maintaining this platform, we recognize that its long-term impact would be greatest under the stewardship of an established UK organization with deep roots in land use, food policy, or environmental accountability.
We're actively interested in conversations with think tanks, research institutions, NGOs, or coalitions who might want to adopt, partner on, or acquire this platform. The data model, methodology, and codebase have been built with handover in mind.
If your organization is working on land use accountability and this platform could advance your mission, we'd welcome a conversation about what collaboration might look like.
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Acknowledgments
UK Land Tracker uses policy documents, consultation responses, and data published by UK government departments and agencies under the Open Government Licence. We are grateful to the many civil society organizations whose public positions and research inform our tracking.