Development land in Lancashire: 694 brownfield sites
The 14 planning authorities in Lancashire have published 694 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 775 hectares and an estimated 18,720 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley | 80 | 79 | 1,910 |
| Pendle | 77 | 49 | 1,966 |
| Preston | 65 | 52 | 2,902 |
| Blackpool | 64 | 27 | 1,445 |
| Lancaster | 63 | 163 | 2,040 |
| Rossendale | 55 | 22 | 760 |
| Fylde | 47 | 58 | 1,601 |
| Wyre | 43 | 59 | 467 |
| West Lancashire | 40 | 51 | — |
| Hyndburn | 38 | 30 | 651 |
| South Ribble | 37 | 100 | 1,697 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | 32 | 44 | 2,323 |
| Burnley | 28 | 29 | 637 |
| Ribble Valley | 25 | 12 | 321 |
The twelve Lancashire districts plus the Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen unitaries.
Largest sites in Lancashire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| South of Fleetwood Dock, Fleetwood | Wyre | 32.7 | 120 |
| Moss Side Test Track, Aston Way/Titan Way (Phases 3 - 5) | South Ribble | 29.4 | 753 |
| Former Pontins Holiday Camp, Carr Lane, Middleton | Lancaster | 23.1 | 600 |
| Lune Industrial Estate | Lancaster | 20.9 | 200 |
| Henry Alty Lts Station Road, Hesketh Bank | West Lancashire | 16.5 | — |
| Lancaster Moor Hospital, Quernmore Road, Lancaster, LA1 3QZ | Lancaster | 15.9 | — |
| Westgate Road, St Annes Pontins Holiday Centre, Clifton Drive North, St Annes | Fylde | 15.6 | 369 |
| Moss Side Test Track, Aston Way/Titan Way (Phase 2) | South Ribble | 15.4 | 197 |
| Camelot Theme Park, Hall Road, Charnock Richard | Chorley | 15.0 | 195 |
| Lundsfield Quarry, Kellet Road | Lancaster | 13.4 | 250 |
| Springside Mills, Belmont Road, Belmont | Blackburn with Darwen | 12.2 | 110 |
| Luneside West, Lancaster, LA1 5FT | Lancaster | 10.8 | — |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 27 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. 226 of the 694 sites (33%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 468 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. 18,720 across Lancashire 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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