Landmark provides Oxford Brookes’ students with free access to Property, Land and Environmental Risk data and systems

Free access provided to MSc Real Estate students for final year project

We're supporting MSc Real Estate students from Oxford Brookes University, by providing free access to our Promap and Envirocheck digital mapping, environmental due diligence and data intelligence tools. Free access has been provided for students’ final development project of their Masters’ degree course.

The capstone project requires the students to complete a 14,000-word project that proves their knowledge of the investment, development and construction processes of commercial land and buildings. A major element of the Masters’ degree project is to produce a detailed feasibility study for a development in an actual location of the student’s choosing.

Twelve students have chosen to focus on development and have selected areas including London, Oxford, Aylesbury and Bristol.  They will use the Promap and Envirocheck services to support their research into the area in question: analysing historical mapping data, as well as a range of other datasets to determine potential risks such as flooding or land contamination, through to geological factors and past land use.

Nick French, Professor in Real Estate at Oxford Brookes University commented: “Providing our MSc students with access to Landmark’s Promap and Envirocheck offers them the opportunity to use tools that are widely adopted in the commercial sector to undertake feasibility and related environmental, land and property development studies.  It’s been great to have the support of Landmark in providing students with access to these services, which will ultimately enable them to prepare highly detailed feasibility reports as part of their final project.”

Carole Ankers, Product Development Director at Landmark Information Group, added: “Our team has provided the students with detailed tuition for Promap and Envirocheck so they are fully prepared in how to make the most from the services.   Landmark has also provided each student with a financial ‘data’ allocation, which can be used to purchase more detailed, in-depth data from both services.   We are proud to be supporting the students as they complete their Masters degrees, and believe it will also help them as they move into their future professions.”