# Land Passport — Derby

> A research and innovation proposal exploring how a persistent Digital Land ID and connected Digital Twin could support planning, construction and whole-life property management. Prepared as an independent discussion brief for the University of Derby and Derby City Council. Concept stage: no partnership or institutional endorsement is implied.

Site: https://derbypilot.foxintelligence.co.uk/
Author: Tomas Gurcinas BA (Hons) Architecture, MCIOB — founder, Land Passport
Contact: t.gurcinas@gmail.com · +44 (0)7738 968951
Full project website: https://landpassport.foxintelligence.co.uk/
Last updated: 13 October 2026

## The idea
- Land Passport gives an individual site one persistent digital identity (a Digital Land ID) that links land, planning, construction and building records, so information follows the site for its whole life instead of being scattered, recreated and lost.
- Records keep their source, verification status, permissions and update history. The identity is connected to a digital twin of the land and the building.
- Three connected lives of one record: (1) land intelligence before design and planning; (2) planning and construction, from option to as-built record; (3) the living property — operation, change and renewal.
- Workflow: connect sources → verify and date records → analyse scenarios → preserve and reuse.

## The proposed Derby Living Lab
- A modest, measurable research pilot: one small housing site in Derby (indicatively 5–20 new homes). Build its passport from raw land and test whether joined-up records improve real planning, design and asset decisions.
- Workstreams: Land (discover and compare scenarios with data provenance); Build (link decisions, permissions, BIM, inspections and change into a design-to-as-built record); Life (handover, energy, equipment, warranty and future change).
- Measures: time spent finding or recreating site information; data completeness, traceability and reliability; quality of planning and development-option comparisons; usefulness of digital handover and ongoing asset information.
- Possible contributors: University (research design, ethics, independent evaluation); Council (planning context, public data, feedback); developer and landowner (consenting site, project data); Land Passport team (concept, prototype, built-environment coordination). No organisation is an agreed participant; scope, timescales and funding are subject to joint scoping.

## Why Derby
- Complements, not replaces, existing initiatives: Derby City Council's city-centre 3D digital twin (https://www.derby.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/planning/development-control/derby-digital-twin/) and the University of Derby's DUST research (https://www.derby.ac.uk/derbys-urban-sustainable-transition/).
- The opportunity is to test the individual site's whole-life record alongside city-scale visualisation and academic research.

## Interactive demonstrator
- The page embeds an IFC-derived 3D concept model of a demonstrator building with five views: complete twin, land + house, land layers, BIM elements and full expansion.
- Land, landscape and service-network layers are illustrative, not surveyed or verified as-built records.

## Related pages
- Interactive data flow — who provides and sees what: https://landpassport.foxintelligence.co.uk/land-passport-data-flow
- Demonstrator building's Digital ID: https://landpassport.foxintelligence.co.uk/digital-twin
- Layer model: https://landpassport.foxintelligence.co.uk/land-passport-layers