1 million new homes on brownfield land

The Housing Secretary this week revealed plans to push for more homes to be build on ‘brownfield land’ (land that has been previously developed on). The plan will require all local authorities to prioritise development on brownfield land.
Analysis of brownfield land by Dataloft (https://inform.dataloft.co.uk/) shows what this could mean. It could very well mean that housing development could be prioritised on over 26,000 sites. This will mean 34,375 hectares of land across England* will be used. There will be an average density of 31 properties per hectare. This equates to just over 1 million new homes if all sites were developed.
South Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have the most brownfield land by far and together could supply over 160,000 new homes. Reviewing the data regionally, East of England ranks highest with 8,176 hectares of brownfield land (250,000 new homes). The North East ranks lowest with only 1,434 hectares of brownfield land (44,000 new homes).
The Housing Secretary’s announcement also included a consultation on removing planning permission requirements for more types of property extensions.
Source: #Dataloft, DLUHC *Brownfield Register for Wales not available.

I will write blogs about this in greater depth as the plan unravels.

Firstly, we may have the overall UK picture

Secondly, we may have regional figures.

However, what we do not have is regional breakdown figures.

Therefore, when it comes to Harlow and surrounding areas, we cannot be sure what we are looking at.

Want to read more articles like this?

Finally, do you want to know what your property might be worth?

Generally these valuations are very accurate. However, if you think yours in inaccurate, please call us on 01279 295524.