Brownfield land in Leeds: 496 sites on the register
Part of development land in West Yorkshire — 1,525 sites across 5 councils.
Leeds City Council has published 496 brownfield sites in Leeds on its statutory land register — land the council itself has assessed as suitable for housing. Together they cover about 760.4 hectares with an estimated capacity of 36,186 dwellings.
Rank these sites with constraints netted off →
Largest sites on the Leeds register
| Site | Hectares | Max dwellings | Planning status |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Parkway and Brooklands, Seacroft | 96.05 | 30 | not yet |
| High Royds Bradford Road Menston | 24.63 | 30 | permissioned |
| Ring Road West Park, Silk Mill Way And Iveson Drive | 24.38 | 335 | permissioned |
| Former Vickers Tank Factory Site, Manston Lane, Cross Gates | 21.49 | 450 | not yet |
| Clarient Production Uk Limited, Calverley Lane, Horsforth, LS18 4RP | 18.81 | 119 | permissioned |
| Kirkstall Forge Abbey Road Kirkstall Leeds Kirkstall Forge, Abbey Road, Kirkstall, LS5 3NF | 17.82 | 1385 | permissioned |
| Station Road, Allerton Bywater | 14.72 | 95 | permissioned |
| South Parkway / Brooklands Avenue | 12.07 | 160 | permissioned |
Source: Leeds City 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 Leeds records an area that cannot be right (the register's hectares column sometimes holds square metres) and is left out of the hectare total.
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 Leeds 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. 36,186 is what the council thinks Leeds’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 Leeds
- Development land in Leeds
- How much brownfield land is there in Leeds?
- Where can I build houses in Leeds?
- Leeds land availability assessment
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