Development land in Derbyshire: 596 brownfield sites
The 9 planning authorities in Derbyshire have published 596 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 1,064 hectares and an estimated 21,291 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erewash | 140 | 95 | 2,830 |
| Bolsover | 91 | 71 | 1,568 |
| Chesterfield | 71 | 75 | 3,315 |
| Amber Valley | 67 | 261 | 3,072 |
| High Peak | 52 | 70 | 1,907 |
| North East Derbyshire | 52 | 110 | 2,088 |
| Derby | 46 | 53 | — |
| Derbyshire Dales | 40 | 242 | 4,014 |
| South Derbyshire | 37 | 86 | 2,497 |
The eight Derbyshire districts plus the Derby unitary.
Largest sites in Derbyshire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land at Middlepeak Quarry | Derbyshire Dales | 61.5 | 645 |
| Land at Ashbourne Airfield, Phase 2 | Derbyshire Dales | 58.7 | 1100 |
| DRAKELOW PARK, DRAKELOW | South Derbyshire | 49.8 | 1500 |
| Stanton Regeneration Site, Former Stanton Ironworks Site, Lows Lane, Stanton By | Erewash | 47.0 | 1000 |
| American Adventure Theme Park, Pit Lane, Heanor | Amber Valley | 46.9 | — |
| Former American Adventure Theme Park Pit Lane Shipley | Amber Valley | 46.5 | 307 |
| Land North of Denby | Amber Valley | 40.4 | 720 |
| Former Biwaters site, land off Derby Road, Clay Cross | North East Derbyshire | 36.5 | 669 |
| Former Avenue Coking Works site, Derby Road, Wingerworth | North East Derbyshire | 31.0 | 489 |
| Chesterfield Waterside, Brimington Road, Chesterfield | Chesterfield | 19.2 | 1550 |
| Land at Ashbourne Airfield, Phase 1 | Derbyshire Dales | 17.9 | 367 |
| LAND AT THE MEASE, HILTON, DERBYSHIRE | South Derbyshire | 16.9 | — |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 1 site in Derbyshire records an area that cannot be right (the register's hectares column sometimes holds square metres) and is left out of the hectare total. 47 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. 134 of the 596 sites (22%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 462 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. 21,291 across Derbyshire 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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