Brownfield sites with no planning permission yet
Every English council has to keep a public register of brownfield land fit for housing. Most of it already has planning permission. These are the sites that do not yet, pulled from every register and put in one place.
- Sites without permission
- 8,586
- Homes they could take (council estimates)
- 555,401
- Councils covered
- 277
Largest sites
Each card is a site on a council's brownfield register: where it is, how big it is, and the council's own estimate of how many homes it could take. None has planning permission yet.
-
Castle Green
Barking and Dagenham
- Could take
- 7,000 homes
- Site area
- 67.0 ha
≈104 homes per hectare, typical of flats
-
Ladywood Regeneration Initiative
Birmingham
- Could take
- 5,200 homes
- Site area
- 54.9 ha
≈95 homes per hectare, typical of flats
- Application pending
Former Filton Airfield Filton
South Gloucestershire
- Could take
- 4,830 homes
- Site area
- 143.0 ha
≈34 homes per hectare, typical of houses
-
Holt Town
Manchester
- Could take
- 4,030 homes
- Site area
- 25.6 ha
≈158 homes per hectare, typical of high-rise flats
-
Harmsworth Quays, Surrey Quays Leisure Park, Surrey Quays Shopping Centre and Robert’s Close
Southwark
- Could take
- 3,995 homes
- Site area
- 21.3 ha
≈188 homes per hectare, typical of high-rise flats
-
Chadwell Heath Industrial Estate
Barking and Dagenham
- Could take
- 3,685 homes
- Site area
- 4.4 ha
≈843 homes per hectare, exceptionally high: tower schemes can reach this, but check the site area on the council's register
-
Kensal Gasworks - Canal Way - Ladbroke Grove
Kensington and Chelsea
- Could take
- 3,500 homes
- Site area
- 15.3 ha
≈229 homes per hectare, typical of high-rise flats
-
Bourn Airfield New Village (Policy SS/7)
South Cambridgeshire
- Could take
- 3,500 homes
- Site area
- 171.8 ha
≈20 homes per hectare, typical of houses
-
Nothstowe Phase 3 - Land at, Oakington Barracks, Ramptoon Road, Longstanton, Cambridge CB4
South Cambridgeshire
- Could take
- 3,500 homes
- Site area
- 150.3 ha
≈23 homes per hectare, typical of houses