Site Selection

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Twenty-seven articles cover how a Development Site is found, scored, and cleared for purchase. These eight run that sequence end to end and reach every group below.

- [[co-location-methodology|Co-location methodology]] — The deterministic framework that classifies a commercial node by where capital-intensive retailers converge. The most-cited article on this wiki.
- [[co-location-intelligence-overview|Retail co-location intelligence]] — The entry point: what the analysis produces, and how a ranked site list is built from public location data.
- [[co-location-intelligence-overview|Retail co-location intelligence]] — The entry point: what the analysis produces, and how a classified site list is built from public location data.
- [[co-location-strategy|Co-location strategy]] — Why professional centres are sited beside national retail anchors, and what that transposes onto office demand.
- [[power-centres|Power Centres]] — The retail hubs every candidate site is measured against.
- [[co-location-anchors|Co-location anchors]] — The large-format retailers whose verified presence qualifies a node. This is the binary test the dataset turns on.
- [[co-location-ranking-system|Ranking system]] — How clusters are ranked within a country, how overlaps are resolved, and how ties are broken.
- [[co-location-ranking-system|Ranking system]] — How clusters are tiered within a country, how overlaps are resolved, and how ties are broken.
- [[catchment-ranking-methodology|Catchment ranking methodology]] — The current four tier gates: anchor composition, catchment rank, civic infrastructure, and spatial independence.
- [[zoning-acquisition-rules|Zoning acquisition standard]] — No parcel is bought without a verified entitlement position and an active development timeline.

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## Site Scoring and Trade Areas

How a qualifying anchor becomes a ranked cluster. Seven articles cover cluster formation, deduplication of overlapping candidates, the deterministic tier engine, and the distance bands scoring runs against — including the honest limits of straight-line measurement.
How a qualifying anchor becomes a classified cluster. Seven articles cover cluster formation, deduplication of overlapping candidates, the deterministic tier engine, and the distance bands scoring runs against.

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- [[co-location-cluster-formation]] — The pipeline step that converts each qualifying anchor store into a candidate co-location cluster; overlapping candidates from a single trade area are resolved by deduplication before ranking inputs are aggregated.
- [[cluster-deduplication-threshold]] — The co-location index pipeline deduplicates overlapping clusters that represent the same commercial zone using a fixed, tightly-set proximity threshold, retaining the cluster with the higher secondary operator count.
- [[co-location-ranking-system]] — The deterministic mechanics behind cluster ranking on the co-location platform — country-relative percentile ranking, the overlap test between neighbouring clusters, and the tiebreak order applied within a tier.
- [[catchment-ranking-methodology]] — The current predicate-gate system that assigns each co-location cluster to one of four tiers — Regional, District, Local, Fringe — using anchor composition, national catchment rank, civic infrastructure, and spatial independence, introduced May 2026 to replace an earlier composite-score model.
- [[geographic-co-location-methodology]] — Predicate-gate tier system scoring retail co-location clusters by anchor composition, catchment rank, and civic presence to rank development sites by anchor strength.
- [[geographic-co-location-methodology]] — Predicate-gate tier system classifying retail co-location clusters by anchor composition, catchment rank, and civic presence to identify development sites by anchor strength.
- [[od-catchment-methodology]] — Each co-location cluster is assigned two straight-line distance bands — a primary zone within 35 km and a secondary zone from 35 km to 150 km — that determine the population and spend attributed to it.
- [[trade-area-methodology]] — Honest labelling of demand geography — why straight-line distance bands are never called catchments, and the planned move to isochrones and observed origins.
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- [[zoning-acquisition-rules]] — Pre-purchase entitlement verification: every parcel is acquired against either a permitted use or an evidenced, achievable rezoning path, with an active development timeline and no speculative land banking.
- [[asset-evaluation-protocol]] — How the co-location ranking matrix drives Woodfine's commercial asset acquisition targeting: the tier classification as the entry criterion, deterministic scoring on public location data as the verification method.
- [[asset-evaluation-protocol]] — How the co-location classification matrix drives Woodfine's commercial asset acquisition targeting: the tier classification as the entry criterion, deterministic scoring on public location data as the verification method.
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## See also