What was on the land?
The Rural Payments Agency's CROME 2016 satellite-derived land-cover classifications can indicate arable fields, grassland or man-made surfaces. This is not proof of agricultural legal use.
2016 CROME source ↗LAND CHANGE ATLAS / PILOT 01
See a place. Investigate its past.
Explore the current neighbourhood map, then check dated land-cover, historical mapping, planning and registered sales evidence. A coloured map or a photograph alone cannot establish a legal change of use.
Explore an area on an open map
Choose a postcode district above to load the OpenFreeMap basemap. The marker shows an approximate geographic centre, not a boundary or a property.
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NEARBY · REGISTERED SALES
How does the surrounding market compare?
After you locate a postcode district, this panel finds nearby outward-postcode centres and loads the corresponding SCC-validated district-level transactions. These are not records for specific neighbouring houses.
Choose a district above to see a local comparison.
Distances are approximate centre-to-centre distances, not walking distances or distances to homes. Median prices describe the observed mix of properties sold, not comparable valuations.
EXPERIMENTAL · ENGLAND ONLY
Test a dated land-cover layer
Attempt to overlay an official CROME 2016 or 2024 WMS classification on the same modern map. The service must confirm its layer name, projection and image support before display. This is not a historic aerial photograph or evidence of legal planning use.
Choose a postcode district first. Land-cover services are not contacted automatically.
EVIDENCE LAYERS
Then, now and what changed
The following are independent source catalogues. Any on-map historic layer is experimental and must be corroborated before a change is asserted.
What is mapped later?
CROME 2024 provides a later, separately classified snapshot for England. Changed cover is a research lead, not a reliable development date without corroboration.
2024 CROME source ↗Was redevelopment approved?
Review planning decisions, site boundaries and documented changes of use with the responsible council. England's central planning collection has incomplete coverage.
Official planning layers ↗What did the locality look like?
National Library of Scotland georeferenced mapping provides valuable older context, mainly decades before 2016. Do not mistake a 1930s map for a ten-year comparison.
Browse historic maps ↗PROPERTY EVIDENCE
Open the postcode property explorer ↗
What did local homes actually sell for?
Open the SCC district report for verified completed-sale counts, recorded median prices and sale-price history. Current feeds do not identify a particular parcel, farm, house or neighbour.
What the map does — and doesn't — establish
- The modern map shows approximate postcode-district centres. Experimental dated CROME WMS overlays are attempted only after you explicitly request one; provider availability and accuracy are not guaranteed.
- 2016 and 2024 land-cover comparisons must align the same polygon/geography, date, classification codes and confidence/coverage checks before a public change assertion.
- New roads and buildings do not themselves demonstrate the planning permission date or legal change-of-use designation.
- Individual dwelling transaction histories and neighbouring sale markers require approved address/UPRN matching, privacy, licences and source-specific accuracy controls. No ownership profiles are published.
- The map sends an outward postcode to Postcodes.io and map tile requests to OpenFreeMap after you choose to locate a district. Nearby-district lookup also uses Postcodes.io; CROME raster requests reach Defra only if you choose an experimental year. Neither provider is SCC Nexus Limited.