Avoid First
Screen land at the outset so protected, sensitive and settled areas are removed from consideration before the project has any commitment to them.
Responsible Development
Responsible Land Acquisition and Stakeholder Engagement
Quantum begins land and stakeholder engagement during early site identification and project assessment. Engagement with governments, authorities, landowners and communities runs alongside technical and commercial development, so that land rights, local knowledge and community priorities inform project decisions while those decisions can still be changed.
Land Screening and Exclusion
Screening Land Before Committing to It
The most effective environmental and social safeguard is choosing land that is suitable and permissible for development in the first place. Before a project targets any parcel, Quantum applies a structured screening process to remove land from consideration for regulatory and physical reasons. The process works by overlaying official mapping and survey data and progressively excluding what does not qualify.
What survives the screen is a target area that already avoids protected ecosystems, forest estate, settlements and unsuitable ground. This is the mitigation hierarchy applied at its earliest and cheapest point: avoidance by design, before land is committed, before design is fixed, and before any landowner has been approached.
Screening Areas
- Regulatory and policy: reference official zoning and spatial planning instruments; exclude residential and forest use and state-owned land where the strategy is acquisition from private landowners.
- Environmental and social: exclude mapped peatland, protected wetlands including mangrove systems, protected forest and population centres identified through satellite imagery.
- Physical and technical: overlay topographic contour data and soil-type mapping to exclude slopes and ground conditions that will not support construction.
Principles of Responsible Engagement
Early, Fair and Informed
Land and stakeholder engagement is integrated into project development so decisions are informed by legal rights, physical conditions, community priorities and government requirements.
Verify Before Offering
Establish who holds rights over land, and on what basis, before any offer or payment is made.
Match Commitment to Certainty
Structure land access in stages so landowners retain use of their land and the project's financial commitment increases as certainty increases.
Treat Landowners Equally
Apply the same published pricing framework and transaction terms to landowners in equivalent circumstances.
Record and Escalate
Log concerns, questions and unresolved matters, and manage them through project risk governance and leadership oversight.
Inform in Plain Terms
Give landowners clear information about the project, their rights and the terms on offer, so any decision they make is a fully informed one.
Land Rights Verification
Verify Rights Before Making Offers
Land ownership structures differ across the markets in which Quantum operates. In each market, Quantum completes verification before landowner engagement advances to any binding stage, adapting its land acquisition strategy to the legal structure that applies in each jurisdiction.
Official Records
Review original land certificates and title history at the relevant land office, assess any conversion from state land, and confirm the intended use conforms to the spatial plan.
Field and Legal Verification
Review evidence releasing unregistered rights, compensation for land and vegetation, tax payments and the authority of the person offering the land.
Independent Searches
Search local courts for third-party claims, the forestry agency for forest-estate status and the local land office for limitations on title, with a qualified land notary appointed by the project.
Boundaries and Occupation
Confirm the land boundaries on the ground and identify who occupies and uses the site, so physical reality matches the registered title before any offer is made.