Terms & Conditions

The London Development Agency (LDA) and the HCA, accept no responsibility for and exclude all liability in connection with browsing this site, use of information on this site and downloading any material from it, including but not limited to, any liability for errors, inaccuracies, omissions or misleading or defamatory statements.

Whilst we hope you find the contents of this website and associated database interesting and informative, the contents are for general information only and in no way negates the users from having to carry out all prudent checks in verifying site information or related material.  The website and associated database is in no way an attempt to set or replicate policy or replace any element of the planning process.  . The underlying site information and GIS information are in the majority sourced from outside the LDA and HCA.  The LDA and HCA will continue to work closely with key stakeholders and holders of relevant information such as the boroughs, government agences and landowners to ensure the data remains as up to date as possible.  Despite these efforts the contents should not be relied upon and professional advice should be taken in specific cases. In addition, none of the content of this website will form any part of any contract between us or constitutes an offer by us. Specific disclaimers may apply in addition to certain content or parts of the site.

Any confidential information such as uploaded site information, site additions or site deletion requests by authorized users will be handed with extreme care through the database’s back-end CMS.  Any required verification of data will be managed by the LDA’s maintenance team in consultation with the submitter of the said information.  Any sharing of information with third parties will be agreed between the LDA’s maintenance team and the submitter of the information in question.  Sharing of information with a third party will only be considered where it is deemed necessary to verify data for uploading to the live database.  No data will be displayed on the live database until all reasonable checks of its authenticity have been completed.    The LDA and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate or otherwise use the communications in all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from the site any unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or other material that would violate any law.

Information may be changed or updated without notice. The LDA may also make improvements and/or changes in the products and/or services and programmes described in this information at any time without notice.
Links made to other sites are made at your own risk and the LDA / HCA accepts no liability for any linked sites. When you access a non-LDA / HCA website, even one that might contain the LDA / HCA logo, please understand that it is independent from LDA and LDA has no control over the content of that website. Further, a link to a non-LDA / HCA website does not mean that LDA / HCA endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or the use of such website. Users must take their own precautions to ensure what is selected for use is free of such items as viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature.

As our websites often provide links to third party websites, such as those of our business partners and on-line advisers, users should review their respective privacy policies to learn more about, what, why and how they collect and use personally identifiable information.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED AT LAW THE SERVICE AND MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE LDA AND THE HOSTS OF THIS SITE EXPRESSLY MAKE NO (AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL) REPRESENTATIONS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF ANY KIND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS. EXCEPT IN RESPECT OF DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY ARISING FROM NEGLIGENCE, THE LDA AND THE HOSTS OF THIS SITE HEREBY EXCLUDE LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIMS, LOSSES, DEMANDS OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO ANY INFORMATION AND/OR SERVICES PROVIDED ON OUR WEBSITE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGES, COMPENSATORY DAMAGES OR LOSS OF PROFITS OR DATA WHETHER BASED ON A BREACH OF CONTRACT OR WARRANTY, DELICT OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE.

IN ADDITION, THE LDA DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE VIA THIS WEB SITE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR CURRENT.

Except as specifically stated on this website, to the fullest extent permitted at law, neither the LDA nor any of its affiliates, directors, employees or other representatives will be liable for damages arising out of or in connection with the use of this Web site. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all damages of any kind, including (without limitation) compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties. For the avoidance of doubt, the LDA does not limit its liability for death or personal injury to the extent only that it arises as a result of the negligence of the LDA directors, employees or other representatives.

The contents of this website (including all website designs, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof and all software compilations, underlying source code, software and all other material) are copyright The London Development Agency or its content and technology providers except insofar as individually stated on particular materials or items.
You may view the site and download any part of it to a personal computer (or other device which is capable of accessing the Internet) for personal viewing and private purposes only but you are not permitted without our permission (a) to store it or any part of it other than for the purposes set out in this paragraph (b) print out copies except for your own viewing for private purposes or for the purposes of your business (other than re-publishing such material for commercial purposes) or (c) reproduce, copy or transmit it (or any part of it) in any other way for any purpose or in any other medium. You are also not entitled to alter the content in any way.
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By accessing this site, you signify your agreement with and understanding of the following terms of use and legal restrictions pertaining to both this site and the material in it.

The London Development Agency (referred to as "LDA", "we", "us" or "our" herein) owns and maintains this site along with the Homes & Communities Agency. All rights reserved. The LDA is a registered trademark of London Development Agency in the UK and/or other countries. Other product and company names mentioned on this website may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

All of the content featured or displayed on this site including but not limited to text, graphics, photographs, images, moving images, sound, illustrations and software are owned by the LDA, its licensors and its content providers, unless otherwise stated.

Permission is granted to electronically copy and to print hard copy portions of this website. Any other use of materials on this website including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above, modification, distribution, or republication without the prior written permission of the LDA is strictly prohibited.

The LDA are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers and website visitors. Our relationship with you is valuable and we understand the importance you place on the privacy and security of information which personally identifies you. In that respect and whether you are a first time visitor to this website or a regular user, we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following in order to learn more about our privacy policy and our information gathering and dissemination practices.

LDA provides a variety of on-line material, including information about LDA products and services, business information and publicity. The LDA collects personally identifiable information when you register with us and use our services. We ask you for personal data only when it is required to access the full functionality of the London Brownfield Sites Database.  Registration and login information is required to ensure only suitable people are provided with access to more sensitive information within the database such as Category E (Confidential) Brownfield sites.  needed to provide goods or services you have enquired about or asked us to provide or to respond to your request for information. You do not need to provide us with personal data simply to browse the front end website or to access the base mapping with limited GIS and Brownfield site information.  You only need to register and be issued with a login if wanting to access the full scale of GIS information available or if a borough user to access Category E (confidential sites) within your borough area and or request site changes, add new sites or request removal of sites (s).  All registered users will be able to send general queries through the databases CMS.  The LDA will use all registration information in order to customise the content you see on our pages, to fulfil your request for certain products and services, to communicate with you generally and to contact you about special offers, promotions or new events and services.

We will collect information from you in the following circumstances:

Some areas of our website require you to be registered with us prior to access being made available to a particular area of the website or to obtain certain services. Our registration process involves providing us with specific information as requested.  We use this information to provide you with the service you have requested or to answer your queries.

We may request optional information from you on our registration forms. We request this optional information so that we may serve you better (e.g. to provide more tailored products and services to you) and so that we may understand our users better (e.g. through internal research, data analysis, market research and product research). If we request this additional information from you we will identify it as optional.

There are various technologies, including one-called "cookies" which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a website. A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. The only personal information a cookie can obtain is information a user supplies him or herself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies, however, enhance our website performance in a number of ways including providing a secure way for us to verify your identity during your visit to our website and personalising your experience on our site making it more convenient for you. The LDA website uses cookies so that we can serve you better. For example, we set cookies to maintain the open menus as you move between pages. These are used only when you are on the website. You can refuse cookies by turning them off on your web browser and you do not need to have cookies turned on to successfully use our service. Most browsers are defaulted to accept and maintain cookies and you can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it or not.

With or without cookies, our website keeps track of usage data, such as the source address that the page request is coming from i.e. your IP address, domain name, date and time of the page request, the referring website (if any) and other parameters in the URL e.g. search criteria. We use this data to better understand website usage so we know what areas of our website users prefer. This information is stored in log files and is used for aggregated and statistical reporting but is not attributed to you as an individual.

We recognise industry standards and employ security safeguards to protect information from unauthorised access and misuse. We use the most accurate and current information you provide in order to process your request. Furthermore, whenever you transmit sensitive information such as such as uploaded site informatin etc to us through the databases CMS  we provide you access to our secure server that allows encryption across the Internet.

LDA and its designees (including the local enterprise companies) will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the communications in all data, images, sound, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. Users of our website are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this site any unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or other material that would violate any law.

There are times when we are required to share the information we garner about you with other parties. We do not sell or rent this information to others but will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people in the following situations:

We will release personal information where we are required to by law or by the regulations and other rules (including auditing requirements) to which we are subject. We may also exchange information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Other than in the above situations you will receive notice from us when your personal information might go to third parties and you will have the opportunity to decide not to share that information.

We may edit this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our web pages.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this policy, have any concerns about the practices of our websites or believe we are not properly adhering to our privacy policy please contact the LDFA's Communications Team. Should you at any time wish us to remove your personal details from our database please contact us in writing or by e-mail.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information held by us in our records in return for which we may charge a small fee. You also have the right to require us to correct any inaccuracies in your information.