Development land in Gloucestershire: 385 brownfield sites
The 6 planning authorities in Gloucestershire have published 385 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 320 hectares and an estimated 8,453 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud | 98 | 82 | 1,980 |
| Forest of Dean | 81 | 51 | 2,053 |
| Cheltenham | 76 | 34 | 1,231 |
| Cotswold | 58 | 67 | — |
| Gloucester | 57 | 78 | 3,189 |
| Tewkesbury | 15 | 9 | — |
The six Gloucestershire districts.
Largest sites in Gloucestershire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land west of Hatherop Road | Cotswold | 15.4 | — |
| Former Standish Hospital Site, Horsemarling Lane Standish | Stroud | 13.1 | — |
| Mill Place & Madleaze Industrial Estate, Moreland | Gloucester | 12.4 | 300 |
| Former EDF Campus Barnwood, Barnwood | Gloucester | 10.4 | 325 |
| Stowfield Works Lydbrook | Forest of Dean | 7.8 | 45 |
| Ullenwood Court, Ullenwood, Coberley | Cotswold | 7.3 | — |
| Steam Mills Rd Northern Quarter Cinderford | Forest of Dean | 6.8 | 195 |
| Ullenwood Court, Ullenwood, Coberley | Cotswold | 6.6 | — |
| Land north of Rudloe Drive, Kingsway | Gloucester | 6.0 | 150 |
| Lansdown Industrial Estate | Cheltenham | 5.7 | 139 |
| Former Bishops College, off Estcourt Close, Longlevens | Gloucester | 5.6 | — |
| Allstone site, off Myers Road, Elmbridge | Gloucester | 5.5 | 280 |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 42 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. 133 of the 385 sites (35%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 252 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. 8,453 across Gloucestershire 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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