Turn site complexity into a clearer development path

Planning permissions, planning conditions, restrictive covenants, easements and overage — Orbital reviews everything that governs what you can do with a site and shows you the restrictions on the map, so you reach certainty before you commit capital.

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PLANNING PERMISSIONS

Understand what the site can support before committing capital

Orbital reviews planning decision notices and local authority searches (planning disclosures), then checks the scheme against use classes, planning conditions, s.106 obligations, CIL, and other relevant requirements. It identifies the status of planning permissions, including outline permissions, full permissions, reserved matters approvals, and any associated conditions.

Planning decision notices
Local authority searches
Planning conformance
Planning conditions
s.106 obligations
CIL
Use classes
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TITLE RESTRICTIONS

Identify title restrictions before they constrain the build

Restrictive covenants, easements, overage/clawback provisions, and estate covenants can affect how a site is used, accessed, and developed. Orbital reviews these documents in the context of the proposed development, helping your team identify relevant use restrictions, build limitations, access rights, and consent requirements earlier on, before they become a problem.

Restrictive covenants
Easements
Overage and clawback
Development agreements
Title restriction and red flags
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SITE MAPPING

Get a clear picture of the property site

Identify title boundaries, order official HMLR documents, and build bespoke site plans, so you can see how the scheme relates to the site's legal and physical boundaries.

Title boundaries
HMLR integration
Document ordering
Site plans
Sketches
Street-view site visits
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SITE CONTROL & BUILD DOCUMENTS

From site control to construction-ready agreements

Rapidly draft site-control documents from your own precedents, including option agreements. Review and negotiate sale contracts, development agreements, construction contracts, and consultant agreements, with mark-ups and issues lists that reflect your side of the transaction.

Option agreements
Sale contracts
Development agreements
Construction and consultant contract
Party-aware mark-ups
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FINANCING, LEASE-UP & COORDINATION

Keep long-running development projects moving

Track critical dates and project phases throughout the life cycle of a multi-year development. Orbital's shared projects help development, finance, planning, and leasing specialists work from the same documents, context, and analysis.

Agreements for lease
Easements
Critical dates and phasing
Cross-document analysis
Critical dates and shared projects
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BUILT FOR REAL ESTATE

Ready-to-use land-use workflows

Start with more than 70 pre-built real estate report templates, built by real estate lawyers and customisable to your precedents, allowing your team to set up productive workflows without building anything from scratch.

Environmental search review
Planning decision notices
Identify title incumbrances
Development agreements
Agreements for Lease and sale contracts
70+ real estate workflows
Phase I ESA
CC&R, REA, and condominium declaration reviews
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who it's for

Developers, counsel, and the firms that build with them

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Developers and development teams

Understand planning, access, and phasing requirements earlier, helping teams to accurately evaluate constraints before making key development decisions.

In-house real estate counsel 

Keep documents, analysis, dates, and specialist input connected as a long-running project moves from site control through financing, construction, and lease-up.

Real estate, land-use and construction law firms

Provide specialist teams a structured starting point for every step of the project life cycle, including planning, diligence, and development agreements.

“With Orbital, I can present to clients very rapidly a screening report on the lease documents, the key title documents, which gives them what they need at that early stage.”

Jon Hobbs
Real Estate Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson

“Right from day one, Orbital is really going to help our lawyers hit key deadlines, turn around documents faster, and ultimately be more client responsive.”

Jeff Westcott
Global Director of Innovation and Practice Technology, BCLP

“As a firm known for high volume and complex real estate transactions, the use of Orbital has fundamentally enhanced and improved the scale and quality of our output for our customers.”

Sarah Easton
Partner, Real Estate, Thomson Snell & Passmore