This information helps to inform our decision-making regarding development proposals, funding-streams and resource allocation.

It also allows us to develop strategies and policies to ensure that there is a supply of well-located sites suitable and available to the market.

The survey takes place annually, which helps us to understand how the land supply changes each year, ensuring that we are able to react to market requirements.

It allows us to assess the amount, location and quality of land available for industrial or business uses to inform our decision-making regarding development proposals, funding streams and resource allocation.

It also allows us to develop strategies and policies to ensure that there is a supply of well-located sites suitable and available to the market.

Sites are categorised based on how easily or quickly they can be developed, taking into account their environmental quality, location and accessibility.

Attractive, well-located and desirable sites are identified as the Marketable Land Supply while those that are less likely to be developed in the next few years or reserved for a specific use or user are regarded as being Non-Marketable.