Brownfield land in Cheshire West & Chester: 497 sites on the register
Cheshire West and Chester Council has published 497 brownfield sites in Cheshire West & Chester on its statutory land register — land the council itself has assessed as suitable for housing. Together they cover about 644.8 hectares with an estimated capacity of 18,649 dwellings.
Rank these sites with constraints netted off →
Largest sites on the Cheshire West & Chester register
| Site | Hectares | Max dwellings | Planning status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land at Winnington Works, Northwich | 58.55 | 602 | not yet |
| TATA Works site, land at Winnington Works, Northwich | 58.55 | 1550 | not yet |
| Winnington Urban Village, Winnington Avenue, Northwich-Island site | 45.39 | 1200 | permissioned |
| Land off Whitby Drive, Winnington Urban Village, Winnington, Northwich, CW8 4UD | 45.39 | 48 | not yet |
| Wincham Urban Village - Brook View, New Warrington Road, Wincham, Northwich | 31.01 | 103 | permissioned |
| Regents Grange, Chester Road, Huntington, Chester | 17.99 | 74 | permissioned |
| Roften Works site, Hooton Road, Hooton, Ellesmere Port | 17.60 | 265 | permissioned |
| CROMWELL ROAD - Phase 3 - Land north of Cromwell Road, Ellesmere Port (HH Roberts) | 9.35 | 69 | permissioned |
Source: Cheshire West and Chester Council brownfield land register, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are the council’s own. 1 site in Cheshire West & Chester records an area that cannot be right (the register's hectares column sometimes holds square metres) and is left out of the hectare total. 74 further entries repeat the area of a site already listed (councils often record a whole site's area against each phase), so that land is counted once. 87 of the 497 sites (18%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 410 that do — the real total is higher.
What a brownfield register actually is
Every local planning authority in England is required to keep a register of previously-developed land it considers appropriate for residential development. Part 1 lists all such sites; Part 2 sites carry permission in principle.
What it is not: an entry is not planning permission, and it is not an offer to sell. The council assessing a site as suitable says nothing about whether the owner wants to sell it or what a scheme would actually get approved. England has no zoning — the Local Plan and the Use Classes Order decide what is achievable.
The registers are public and free. They are underused mainly because each authority publishes its own separately, in its own format, so comparing more than one area by hand is painful.
Working the Cheshire West & Chester register properly
- Net off the constraints first. Green belt, Flood Zone 3 and listed buildings kill more register sites than anything else. Check before you fall in love with a line on a map.
- Treat the dwelling figure as the council’s opinion. 18,649 is what the council thinks Cheshire West & Chester’s register could take — your scheme, your design and the Local Plan will move it.
- Price it off recorded sales. HM Land Registry Price Paid gives you what actually sold nearby; work the residual land value from there rather than from an asking price.
- Find the owner. Register sites are rarely advertised. Ownership status is listed, and Land Registry title records do the rest.
Questions this page answers
- Brownfield land register Cheshire West & Chester
- Development land in Cheshire West & Chester
- How much brownfield land is there in Cheshire West & Chester?
- Where can I build houses in Cheshire West & Chester?
- Cheshire West & Chester land availability assessment
GoSiteHunt is an advertising and analysis platform, not a real estate agent or planning consultancy. Everything here is indicative screening from public data — not a valuation, not planning advice, and never a substitute for the council’s own records or your own professional advisers.