Development land in Hampshire: 1,113 brownfield sites
The 13 planning authorities in Hampshire have published 1,113 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 1,181 hectares and an estimated 28,403 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portsmouth | 234 | 253 | — |
| Winchester | 176 | 57 | 1,618 |
| Hart | 138 | 195 | 4,252 |
| Basingstoke and Deane | 116 | 94 | 4,588 |
| Havant | 87 | 144 | 4,996 |
| Fareham | 75 | 54 | 2,564 |
| Rushmoor | 75 | 50 | 4,108 |
| New Forest | 72 | 89 | 2,966 |
| Eastleigh | 41 | 31 | 891 |
| Southampton | 37 | 71 | — |
| Gosport | 32 | 112 | 2,054 |
| Test Valley | 18 | 22 | — |
| East Hampshire | 12 | 8 | 366 |
The Hampshire districts plus the Portsmouth and Southampton unitaries.
Largest sites in Hampshire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartland Park, Farnborough | Hart | 56.0 | — |
| Hartland Park, Bramshot Lane, Fleet, Hampshire | Hart | 56.0 | 1500 |
| Site of the Former Fawley Power Station, Fawley | New Forest | 49.0 | 1380 |
| HAVANT TOWN CENTRE HAVANT | Havant | 40.7 | 750 |
| ST JAMES HOSPITAL | Portsmouth | 33.1 | — |
| St James Hospital and Langstone Campus | Portsmouth | 33.0 | — |
| Daedalus, Broom Way, Lee-on-the-Solent | Gosport | 29.3 | 394 |
| Tipner | Portsmouth | 26.2 | — |
| Basing View Basingstoke | Basingstoke and Deane | 25.9 | — |
| Townhill Park | Southampton | 25.4 | — |
| PORT SOLENT, HMS EXCELLENT | Portsmouth | 25.3 | — |
| WATERLOOVILLE TOWN CENTRE WATERLOOVILLE | Havant | 24.6 | 600 |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 184 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. 479 of the 1113 sites (43%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 634 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. 28,403 across Hampshire 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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