Development land in Berkshire: 588 brownfield sites
The 6 planning authorities in Berkshire have published 588 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 659 hectares and an estimated 33,275 dwellings of capacity.
Rank these sites with constraints netted off →
Which councils hold the land
Every authority publishes its register separately, so these totals exist nowhere else. Click a council for its full register.
| Authority | Sites | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 217 | 190 | 20,788 |
| Slough | 111 | 82 | — |
| West Berkshire | 109 | 73 | 4,142 |
| Windsor & Maidenhead | 68 | 120 | 2,840 |
| Bracknell Forest | 59 | 74 | 5,505 |
| Wokingham | 24 | 119 | — |
The six Berkshire unitary authorities. Berkshire has had no county council since 1998.
Largest sites in Berkshire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Former Bearwood Golf Course, Mole Rd, Sindlesham | Wokingham | 48.2 | — |
| Land at the Madejski Stadium, Shooters Way, Reading | Reading | 19.0 | 618 |
| Phase 3, Dee Park Estate, Spey Road, Reading | Reading | 16.4 | 108 |
| Heatherwood Hospital | Windsor & Maidenhead | 16.0 | — |
| Land at Broadmoor Crowthorne | Bracknell Forest | 15.0 | 270 |
| Land North of Manor Farm Road, Reading | Reading | 13.7 | 1020 |
| Akzo Nobel, Wexham Road, SL2 5DS | Slough | 12.8 | — |
| Land At, Arborfield Garrison Biggs Lane Arborfield Parcel A-G | Wokingham | 10.8 | — |
| North Wokingham - Matthewsgreen Farm, Phase 4 | Wokingham | 10.0 | — |
| HP Beehive Road, Binfield | Bracknell Forest | 9.6 | 294 |
| Pirbright Institute site, Compton | West Berkshire | 9.1 | 160 |
| Land At, Arborfield Garrison Biggs Lane Arborfield - Parcel H, I and J | Wokingham | 9.0 | — |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 8 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. 188 of the 588 sites (32%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 400 that do — the real total is higher.
Before you get attached to one
A register entry is not planning permission and not an offer to sell. It records that the council thinks housing could work there. Whether the owner agrees is a separate conversation, and whether a scheme gets approved is a third.
- Net off the constraints first. Green belt, Flood Zone 3 and listed buildings kill more register sites than anything else.
- The dwelling figure is the council’s opinion. 33,275 across Berkshire is a planning-policy estimate, not a set of designs.
- Price it off recorded sales. HM Land Registry Price Paid tells you what actually sold; work the residual land value from there.
- England has no zoning. The Local Plan and the Use Classes Order decide what is achievable, application by application.
How to read a register entry properly → · Five ways to find UK development land →
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